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- From: brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan)
- Subject: Re: Suggestions for VMS/DCL manuals
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.085654.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au>
- Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU
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- Organization: Cumberland College of Health Sciences
- References: <TSHIN.93Jan22015118@husc8.harvard.edu> <153@mccoy.dbaccess.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:46:54 GMT
- Lines: 72
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- In article <153@mccoy.dbaccess.com>, steve@dbaccess.com (Steve Suttles) writes:
- > tshin@husc8.harvard.edu (Tae Shin) writes:
- [...]
- > If you are the new system administrator, congratulations! Among your newfound
- > treasures you will find a six-foot-tall bookcase full of grey binders. Start
- > at the one marked "Intro to Documentation".
-
- not at this site.. :-(
- Thank God I had access to the Orange Wall at a site a few years ago!
-
- [...]
- > You are the systems administrator. Remove the power cord from the back of the
- > system unit. Hide it. Go back to whoever told you you had a complete system
- > and inform them that there are a great number of parts missing, and the system
- > is completely inoperable. Don't plug it back in until you get some
- > documentation.
-
- so what do I do about the 100+ students/lecturers expecting to
- use the machine(s)?
-
- > Everything's fine where the documentation is, but you're not there. It is not
- > a matter of another office, it is a county away. Your options (actually, the
- > options belonging to whoever holds the checkbook) are to get additional
- > documentation for the new site, or get a quantity discount on telephone calls
- > to the office of the guy who has the documentation. Or do without or update
- > your resume, as before.
-
- all our documentation is at main campus - 26 miles away..
- place a request.. wait for a few days.. go to the FAX machine..
- read the _minimum_ info they've sent to you..
-
- > I have never understood the kind of people who buy computers but no
- > documentation, but when they buy puzzles, they pay extra for instructions on
- > how to solve it. Why would someone get a tool, whether a computer or a
- > chainsaw, without getting a handle on it? (and this is a VERY close analogy).
-
- poverty is a good reason...
-
- funding streams (in this campus) take many strange turns..
- a school can have $50,000 to spend on just about anything, yet
- the EDP unit isn't allocated enough for VMS manuals..
- I had to rant/rave/scream to get a MAC LC-II - so that we could
- at least have *some* idea about the Deans problems with her
- MAC network amongst those 'On High'.. (!)
-
- pulling the plug won't get us manuals - it'll get us a one-way
- ticket...
-
- Now (after 3 months) I hope to soon have enough for X software
- on a MAC or PC.. *then* I'll be able to access the CD-ROM
- bookreader stuff!!! (I piously hope!)
-
- Not all the world works the way we'd like it to... :-}
-
- I haven't even mentioned the lovely SPARCstation 1+ sitting there
- doing its business - sans manuals - that was 'allocated' to us!!!
-
- Just a view from a twisted little backroom of a minor campus of
- a huge (and seriously twisted) university...
-
- go figure.. (yet I have a sinking suspicion I am not alone in
- this kind of madness!)
-
- Luke.
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