On Thu, 2022-10-06 at 10:37 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > Not to try to one-up you, but I once saw a tech support rep that had > about a dozen things open, all maximized. Instead of looking at the > taskbar to find the one he needed, he was minimizing them one by one > until he found the right one. I didn't say a word, just walked away, > happy that I wasn't in management and didn't have to try to teach him > the easy way. Many years ago I visited one of our local television stations. Back in the analogue days, master control *used* to be the epitome of organisation. A person sat at a desk, monitoring things, with his checklist of what to do when, occasionally pressing a button to prepare the next thing. Issuing instructions to tape operators occasionally, but usually they did what was needed by themselves, and they had the required tapes loaded and cued in advance. This time it was computerised. One person was running everything from one PC. It controlled a robot arm picking from array of tapes sitting on special shelves, loading them into one of a few machines, ready to be triggered at the right moment by the automation centre. How automated was it? He had a screen full of little windows, like he was playing solitaire, for the controllers. All overlapping because there were more than would fit on the screen, he was shuffling them around all over the place all the time, to get to the thing he needed to tweak. And he was constantly setting up the next thing, manually. The only thing being done automatically was sending the play command to the right machine when the last one reached its out point. Long before that they were the first station to be automated in the analogue days. It could run the whole station unattended, if need be (you laced up the reel-to-reel players, it controlled them by itself, it fully controlled the Ampex cassette recorder used for short spots, which had a couple of dozen carts in its carousel, if I remember correctly). Which it did once, for a while, when the master operator decided to go out to a party and leave it to its own devices. Naturally something broke down in his absence. But five minutes of that window shuffling would have sent me postal, heck knows how many hours he would be on shift. So much for getting the computer to do all the work for him. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 10 16:21:17 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
