I'm a strong believer in Open Software - it is clearly leading the path in innovation in IT. Yet, when will the industry wake up to making things simple.
I was considering MythTV recently (rather than waiting for the Packer's and Murdock's to stop trying to bury Digital TV and allow a decent PVR/DVR recorder into the country) but got no further than the Hardware heading in the doco. What a load of shite. There are thousands and thousands of entries, comments, forums and doco regarding the topic, but do you think I can find an idiot sheet I can use to minimise the pain? Nup.
Instead, I'm expected to reinvent a process that (probably) hundreds have tried and struggled with (many talk of 33 hours installation dramas). Yet, given a specific specification, I dare say it would almost take no more than 1-2 hours in reality.
And we see this everywhere - Wiki's, CMS, etc - truckloads of documentation but none of it useful if you just want to get in and install it.
Wake Up People - We'd have SOOO much more leverage if we simplified these installs for mug punters...
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