Re: docs on frozen CDs - how to handle updates to docs?

[Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com>]

> Someone on this list suggested putting stickers on the CDs that list the 
website as the location of the
> latest docs (thank you!). I am proposing this excellent suggestion to management. 

Uh, be careful.  I once had the idea of putting sticker labels on the 
CDs I used for my regular backups, rather than writing on the CDs 
themselves (they were rewritable CDs).  I used regular mailing labels I 
had kicking around, cut to fit.

The first time I put a CD with the sticker on it into my computer, there 
was a long pause, a funny grinding noise from the drive, my computer
popped up a box that said "this disk cannot be read,"  and then it 
popped the CD out of the drive.  And THE STICKER WAS GONE.

Fortunately, it seemed that despite this experience both the CD and and 
CD drive actually worked fine, and as far as I know the sticker is still 
in there.  But it could have turned out very badly.  Buy sticky stickers.

Laura


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