[mythtv-users] references to "significant other"

Henk Poley hpoley at dds.nl
Tue Apr 27 14:01:17 EDT 2004


Op dinsdag 27 april 2004 19:20, schreef Dan Boger:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 05:54:59PM +0100, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> > stop using your wife/girlfriend/partner to represent somebody who is
> > technically illiterate. it is not necessary and in my opinion
> > insulting.
>
> My wife is definitely a technical person - she runs networks of over
> 30,000 users without breaking a sweat.  However, that doesn't mean that
> she likes (or even wants) to muck around in the innards of myth.  So
> when something is broken (myth freezes for whatever reason), she _could_
> log in to the box, kill the frontend and restart it with no problem -
> but it's more hassle than it's worth for her, so she'll just switch back
> to the Tivo.  That's an example of a bug that "reduces the wife
> acceptance factor".

Good point. (but I think you did forget to notice that others brought the term 
WAF / "wife acceptance factor" into this thread, and not the thread starter)

	Henk Poley <><


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