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

[Tom Lord]

    > 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