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Astrology? For real?

David

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Lobster
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Far more sense to send it as a .pdf, not quite as easy to edit and far more likely to appear the same on their machine as it does on yours.

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Dave Liquorice

If I'm hiring I expect people to take some trouble over their CV and the covering letter. Anything badly printed or containing obvious spelling errors goes straight in the bin.

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Huge

I have been subjected to graphology by a large multinational. I wrote the sample in block capitals and commented to the HR person that graphology was so much tidier and less smelly than haruspicy.

For some reason I didn't get the job.

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Huge

I'm very partial to "The Office" shortlisting method:

Throw half the applications away at random - the last thing you want to do is employ an unlucky person

Can't argue with that.

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Bob Mannix

Someone I worked with used to throw them downstairs then pick a few from the middle steps. He claimed this weeded out those who wrote too much, those who wrote too little and the unlucky.

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Steve Firth

Amusing, although not invented by Ricky Gervais. I read about that years ago.

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Huge

Although by that metric (much as I agree), sending it as an image would work even better (the electronic equivalent of posting it) - but I've never heard of anyone doing that.

I use Openoffice for just about everything, and it drives me nuts that I have to go and locate a Windows machine with Word on it every time I'm sending something "off site" in electronic form, purely so I can verify that OO has correctly saved in Word format properly & that the doc will look more or less as it should for the recipient.

cheers

Jules

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Jules

How often does OOo not save as M$ expects? I'm not overly concerned about complex documents just yer run of the mill ordinary letter with maybe an image and/or table.

Says him thinking that when SWMBO'd computer gets replaced it's not going to get M$ Office. Indeed I'd like to move to linux but that might be pushing things a bit to far...

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Dave Liquorice

In article , Stephen Howard writes

It isn't in Epson's' which is why their ink is cheaper than HP. However when you buy a new HP ink you get a new nozzle etc. which does help. i have thrown away several Epson's as there was no way to unblock them and no repair shop would look at them once they were a few years old, yet they were generally sturdier built and didn't blow your eyeballs off with their colours as sometimes happens in HPs.

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Janet Tweedy

It is possible to unblock Epson nozzles in a sonic bath. Not everyone has access to such a device and TBH very few people can tolerate the noise.

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Steve Firth

'fraid so. "This person, ooh I think she's a Taurus, wouldn't fit in, I think we need a Virgo for this job ..."

Owain

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Owain

Last Epsom I had was a Stylus colour 600 - and you can remove the head for cleaning. Soaking in ammonia usually does it.

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Dave Plowman (News)

Not much more often than M$ doesn't replicate formatting correctly between different versions of its own software.

Owain

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Owain

A "sonic bath" is something other than an ultra sonic cleaner then? Smal= l, low power, ones are available for less than =A350 and they make no objectionable noise that I'm aware of. This sort would be fine for nozzl= e unblocking.

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Dave Liquorice

How would you get the nozzle part of the printer out of said printer and into a bath? I could never figure out how to get the part unattached so i could really clean it/see if it was really blocked.

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Janet Tweedy

I've not had much trouble with the layout side - but of course OO's idea of available fonts on a Linux box are generally different to Word's on a Windows box, so I normally have to do a little bit of font tinkering in Word so that things look nice.

OO running on a Windows platform might sort out a lot of the font issues though, as hopefully it'll use exactly the same fonts that Word would.

cheers

Jules

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Jules

Dismantle the printer.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

I found instructions on removing the one on my old Stylus via Google. It's not a job for the clumsy, though. But if it's not working you have nothing to lose.

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Dave Plowman (News)

OK, so I'm late to this thread but I do have an OLD[1] dot matrix printer ready for recycling.

[1] Star LC-10, OK I'll wizz it.
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Jeweller

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