Re: [RDD] New deployment

2015-04-21 Thread Wayne Merricks
Definitely, they'll also throw a curve ball at you years after you've been using it. I had a conversation that went a bit like this not too long ago: Rivendell keeps not playing backups, its done this several times now you need to fix it, we might have to use something else if it won't even

Re: [RDD] New deployment

2015-04-21 Thread John Anderson
Your backup seems like the Rivendell Evergreen Cart, if there's nothing else available to play, play this one? but I totally agree, there are people rather than to admit they might not know it all, fall back on what they think they want, or insert their personal latest wish list item in place

Re: [RDD] New deployment

2015-04-21 Thread John Anderson
AMEN... just went through a fairly painful experience with some folks, who couldn't figure out WHY Rivendell didn't work exactly like something they think they REMEMBER from 7 years ago... Nine times out of 10, the equipment isn't the problem...LOL! On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 12:32 +0100, Wayne

Re: [RDD] New deployment

2015-04-21 Thread Cowboy
On Tuesday 21 April 2015 06:11:06 pm Jay Ashworth wrote: Retraining and errors cost money. Indeed it does ! That's the whole basis of my suggestion to let them play with a demo before putting any serious effort into it. it turns out that the job that sounded like it might be engineering is

Re: [RDD] New deployment

2015-04-21 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, I don't resell Riv but I use it in house. We went from a circa Windows NT Dalet system that wouldn't upgrade past Windows 2000 to Riv. I bought it in gradually. We used to use CDs and stuff as an emergency fall back which get scratched over time or the players skipped etc. So my foot