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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata |
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Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:40:30 +0100 |
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:05:57PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> On the DNS-SD support: I think the issue is that you are presuming a
> solution where no widely agreed upon problem actually exists. You
> gave one use-case on the help list that was interesting in the
> abstract -- but I suspect that if a group of people wanted to solve
> the abstract problem, their solution would be rather different than
> what you are proposing.
>
> The use case involved people arriving at a conference which hosted a
> wireless lan and wanting to "hook in" quickly and easily to all of the
> arch archives on that lan. I would expect a pragmatic solution to
> such a problem would involve something like a 5 line shell script, a
> README file, a white-board near the registration desk, and a public
> FTP site on the lan at a well-known address (well-known via the
> whiteboard, of course). Perhaps there would be a wiki.
>
> Never understimate the power of a dry-erase marker.
Never underestimate the difficulty of getting several hundred people
to follow a series of instructions carefully, or the range of
different things they will have to configure.
I have enough difficulty getting three experienced technicians to
repeat the same procedure accurately on half a dozen workstations,
when supplied with printed instructions.
You're going to need at least two tech support staff, and they won't
work for free.
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Robert Collins, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Damien Elmes, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Tom Lord, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata,
Andrew Suffield <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Tom Lord, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Andrew Suffield, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Tom Lord, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Doran Moppert, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Tom Lord, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Tom Lord, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Douglas Philips, 2003/09/17