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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 23:22:37 +0100 |
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:58:52PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> > 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 think you're going to need less.
> 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.
Not your problem that a moron has somebody else's stuff.
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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, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Tom Lord, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata,
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- 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
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/18