On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 14:53 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 10/07/2005 11:41 AM, Carl Hartung wrote:
Hi Darryl,
Maybe an 'a la carte' sales menu covering the entire spectrum of possibilities, priced accordingly, would be a good solution? The nice part 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.
A reasonably priced hard copy Administrator's manual is a rational expectation... if it is well written to withstand becoming obsolete too quickly.<snip> you retain the option to print it yourself if you don't like the OEM price.
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.
Print it myself? I dunno, I have an ancient Brother that uses HP-LJII toner cartridges, and those are 100 bucks here. Even the generic ones are expensive, when you can find them. I could get a new printer for that much, if I had that much to spare :)
Maybe Staples Business depot can give you a quote on printing one up.
Now you see why I want Novell/SuSE to print the manual for me? :)