BOFH: I know of a small biz that could deliver nothing for a fraction of the cost BOFH logo telephone with devil's horns I've just spent two days reading a RFP responses for a project destined to die a horrible and undignified death. The worst part is that the project is funded from the infrastructure budget, which means that the longer it takes to deep-six it, the more cash will be burned in the RFP process …
Reminds me of the "external consultants report" into a massive data loss incident at one of the UK's top ten higher education institutions. Basically a PowerPoint presentation that had its origins in a minor data loss incident analysis given to a UK financial institution earlier that year, hastily edited to replace the images of the building and the datacenter, a few relabelled topology diagrams and changing a few "names" to protect the not-so-innocent.
It really makes me wonder every time I see any report, RFP etc that's delivered in landscape. It's quite obviously not something that is intended ever to be referred to beyond that hour-long board-room slot early on a Friday afternoon, after which the contents will be digested thoroughly along with (on expenses) about eight pints and some questionably priced overly grandiose what is essentially pub-grub from a local gastro-col outlet that managed to bribe a Time Out reviewer into giving it a five-star, must-visit rating (that makes me sound old - nowadays the same is achieved by just stuffing TripAdvisor reviews using a bot).
As I use styles religiously (no, not making church brochures, thank you) I was intrigued to learn that LibreOffice apparently can make that visible now, but I haven't found time yet to see what that looks like.
When I used to repair docs that Word-using colleagues had screwed up to the point where Word would not even load it anymore without immediately crashing I'd take it into LO, strip out ALL the formatting and then re-applied styles, usually back in Word as Microsoft's deliberate incompatibilities would otherwise get in the way. I could have done with that then.
Now I use LO exclusively.
As for cut & paste, I have swapped the Paste and "Paste unformatted text" shortcuts so LO does it by default. In earlier days that wasn't possible because the "paste unformatted" was two menus down and thus not available as an explicit menu item and so impossible to set up as a key shortcut without resorting to macros, but now it's trivial enough for me to wonder if I cannot make that an installation default. I must look up where all of this is stored.
"Functional translator" is indeed a fine one. I think i am going steal it as the "mechanical document converter" or "non electronic processing device" i normally mention starts to get suspicious looks from those of the competence avoidance squad that still give me the occasional ink stained papers (they call it "optimisation concepts" or suchlike) every now and then.
If the Boss had been around as long as the rest of us, he'd at least know that he has several currency options for the deposit. The local company in question will no doubt accept deposits in any of: cash, BitCoin, or the form he should be offering -- onion bhajis.
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