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On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:34:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 28/01/2014 14:28, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> >> Really?, Try that approach at a carrier network support center, |
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> >> where |
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> >> > new stuff is rolled out to cutomers without first explaing, warning |
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> >> > and offering up options..... It's shows a blatant disrespect for |
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> >> > the existing customer base. Nobody in business, treats existing |
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> >> > customers that way, imho. In industry, punks with that mentality |
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> >> > get *FIRED*.... |
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> > Yes, really. People boot a distro's live CD, maybe install it, and |
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> > make quick decisions about whether they like it or not. |
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> James isn't talking about whatever the latest flavour of the month |
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> happens to be that you like. He's talking about the firmware running on |
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> carrier core, or on the black box installed at the customer's edge. Or |
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> the company portal that lets our customers drill deep down into their |
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> traffic stats or do monitoring or investigate billing. |
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> I work in carrier and that shit is sacrosanct so change it at your |
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> peril. I really couldn't care what desktop the user runs today as I |
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> don't support any of them, just the API we present to the world. |
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> I think you are looking at this from the POV of a desktop end user, |
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> while James and I are talking about infrastructure that the end user |
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> only gets to use, never change. |
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The question was about desktop usage, it was about moving from KDE to |
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LXDE. How things work in a completely different environment is |
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irrelevant, the rules are different. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Politicians are like nappies |
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Both should be changed regularly, and for the same reason |
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