Another “Pet Peeve” - Dell Documentation
While I generally abide by the George Carlin School of Pet Peeves, if you know what I mean, this is one of many of mine that I was just reminded of today. I wanted to consult the docs for one of my Dell servers to see the proper orientation for the processor’s heat sink (since I took it off to vacuum the dust out of it), but of course, all the documentation Dell posted was packaged as Windows self-extracting executables. As an OS X user, I can generally go to the command line and use “unzip” to extract these things, but why make life difficult for non-Windows users? Hell, if I need docs for a server, isn’t it fairly reasonable that I might not be running Windows at all, on anything? Of course, it’s also reasonable that if I’m running servers and not running Windows, I’d be able to figure out how to extract the damn thing without touching Windows.
Still, it’s stupid, Dell. Stop it.
