20 Sep
2017
20 Sep
'17
6:48 p.m.
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
|> On Sep 19, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
|>
|> Put it on the web and move on.
|
|My main gripe about that is that I can't read the web when the router \
|I'm trying to install won't work, keeping me from the needed web documentati\
|on ...
|
|*Please* write your documentation in a way that allows you to generate \
|(useful, readable!) PDF documents that I can download for offline viewing. \
| Believe it or not, I don't haul along a 300 mile cat-5 cable when \
|I go sailing. I still like to write code on the boat. So much for Go :-P
|
|And $GOD help everyone in the Caribbean trying to bootstrap their infrastruc\
|ture right now. How is your https://... documentation going to help \
|them out?
I absolutely agree. And mind "you", a lot of people save money to
be able to have an hour of internet access a week. Maybe they
have to walk kilometers, hours, to be able to do so. And to end
up with a bad low-bandwidth connection. Having internet access is
a gift, and a miracle.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)