[TechJunkYard]

All the facilities managers I've known can operate the system but couldn't begin to wire the beast up, they don't care, that's what the security company is for.

If youse guys can afford to pay him to sit around while a security company wires the place up, you've got money to burn.

My guy tells me exactly which circuit he wants me to use when he's running a new sensor back to the alarm panel in the main building... he knows how many telephone risers we have and how many are dedicated to his stuff... because he's laid all of the cables. AND he has his guys standing by to test the circuit just as soon as I have it punched down.

[discostu]

Most of the facilities people I've known joined the company after the system was in place, and they've got plenty of other stuff to do, at least that's what they say.

[discostu]

And of course, getting down to the nitty-gritty of HOW it works, does your facilities guy actually know how a motion sensor works? That's the level of knowledge the linux crowd keeps saying everybody should have about computers. And it's just not happening, and it shouldn't. That's why MS has the marketshare, that's why Linux will probably never have the marketshare, that's why if Liux ever does get the marketshare the faithful will be complaining that they dumbed it down and they'll be using something else.