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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata |
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Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:58:52 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
> > 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.
Wow. I think we go to rather different technical conferences (not
that I've been to any recently).
But more to the point -- You think you're not going to need tech
support staff with a "higher" tech solution?
I'm really loving the idea of some dummy showing up with his laptop
containing the latest Super Sekret source and, because he clicked on
the wrong check-box 3 years ago, having the whole archive show up on
the internet 5 hours after his arrival.
-t
- [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, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata,
Tom Lord <=
- 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
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/18