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Date:	Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:38:39 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Any limitation on hard drive size ?, BIOS

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> > He does not yet have a problem.
>
> Peter is reading email while on the phone
> to San Diego. He has _lots_ of problems.

Elton John had a song "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting". Sheesh.
It took me four _hours_ last night just to find out which hospital one
of them was taken to. And did you ever try to find your inlaws'
attorney on a weekend?
_____

Steven has brought up an excellent, excellent point during this thread.
There's a difference between "designing" and "fast-tracking" a project.

It's the "scholars vs. tinkerers" argument.

The scholar (of the "designing" school) will spend a lot of time doing
research, accumulating specs, speaking with consultants, and eventually
turn out large documents and blueprints that when followed will
_hopefully_ result in a successful product every time. (This doesn't
work when writing software.)

The tinkerer (of the "fast-tracking" school) will forego all worldly
knowledge and simply pile up the parts, twiddle with the wires, churn on
the Rubik's cube and _hopefully_ end up with a successful product every
time. (This doesn't work when writing software.)

Fast-tracking a project usually gets the project done faster and for
less money. It does _not_ mean the quality is the same, it simply is
more likely to be "within budget". Fast-tracked projects never (that's
what I said: "never") have the designed-in robustness that allows for
easy future expansion, changeorders, flexibility. And there are notable
failures.

When you're installing a single disk drive, fast-tracking is probably a
good choice -- just make sure you can return the drive if it doesn't
work in your machine. But I'm not installing just one drive. I'm
planning on installing a _lot_ of drives in a _lot_ of different
machines, so in my case I need a plan. Thus I need a Scholar who enjoys
"designing" things.

- Peter

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