This would be perfect. Everyone could get exactly what he felt he needed, and no one would have to take what he didn't want. Well, if the powers-that-be at Novell/SUSE are interested, I've written and integrated this type of 'a la carte' ordering system a number of times before. :-) I'm sure there are also others on this list who'd be happy to
On Friday 07 October 2005 16:53, Darryl Gregorash wrote: participate. I'm not 'volunteering', mind you. When it looks like work, smells like work, adds to the gray hairs and takes time from the family, I fire up the time and billing module. ;-)
Emphasis on reasonably priced, though.. in this neck of western Canada, a decent administrator's manual is around CA$75 to 85. I don't know where that price comes from, but it is outrageous. Novell could probably do much better for around US$20, which for me would be less than 30 bucks.
They could undoubtedly get a decent price just by consolidating the orders into bulk on-demand production runs, but determining what an actual price might look like without some proper research is impossible... too many variables. The last low volume administration type book I ordered from nerdbooks.com, for example, was about $50 U.S. plus three or so bucks UPS Ground shipping. It contained 1,200 pages of content (almost no 'filler'.)
Print it myself? I dunno...
I was thinking more along the lines of you bringing the CD in to a Kinko's or similar place and having them print from the .pdf files.... this /has/ to be cheaper than burning through a bunch of consumer ink cartridges, as you alluded to.
OK, apologies. This thread has brought out a lot of hot tempers, and I'm a little testy today :)
Quite alright! - Carl