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The eccentricity or outlandishness is not in the actual content of the requests. He doesn't request anything expensive or difficult. It's in expecting everyone
by netcan 12y ago
The eccentricity or outlandishness is not in the actual content of the requests. He doesn't request anything expensive or difficult.
It's in expecting everyone involved to thoroughly read the 10,000 man page and make sure they follow everything. So, instead of calling up the hotel you always use, Lucy from event planning is presumably expected to test SSH on the hotel network and question the staff about air conditioning systems.
- hedwall 12y agoman page? I think you texinfo page :)
- jordigh 12y agoTexinfo manual. Written in a much less terse style than the single-page cheat-sheet that manpages are supposed to be. :-)
- arrrg 12y agoI think we have to differentiate between two things: structure and writing on the one hand, demands and requirements on the other hand. You probably won’t find many people who wouldn’t agree that the writing could be significantly tidied up (mostly to remove all the explanations and reasons – it’s ok to just have a list of demands and requirements without always explaining why something is this way or that way) and the document could be better structured. However, the demands, while quirky, don’t seem to unreasonable to me.