Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata

[Andrew Suffield]

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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