discuss: Business card CD-Rs
Subject:
Re: Business card CD-Rs
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
17 Mar 2001 09:26:47 -0000
Message-Id: <20010317042539.B27346@lupercalia.net>
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:31:07PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:45:28PM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> > I have a good thought about giveaways for the LDP at booths.
> > Why not build up a bunch of those tiny credit-card sized CD-Rs
> > with PDFs and HTML of the LDP documents?
> >
> > Cost for the media and label looks to be under $1.50/ea in qty. 100,
> > and the only other thing needed is the CD-R drive to burn it.
> > Maybe a week or two before the show in question, burn up
> > a bunch and bring with you.
>
> But I think that older CD ROM drives can't handle them. If they have
> a newer CD drive they likely also have a modem that can download the LDP
> docs in less than 30 minutes. While that's happening they can compute
> on another virtual console. Downloading insures that the info is as
> fresh as can be and that they get it in the format they prefer. I
> understand that some cheap CD-Rs may be defective.
But they are so damn COOL! :-)
> I suggest that we give away flyer sheets telling about the LDP and
> listing a couple of nearby mirror sites (after checking them out first
> to make sure they're alive).
Why not do both? Anybody that wants to go to the time and effort to
burn business cards shoud go ahead!
I know I would like to have the LDP on cd-rom, in case I need a doc
while doing an install or when I can't get to the net.
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