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

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Laura Lemay wrote:
 
> 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.

Don't even use sticky stickers. It could turn out much worse. With
today's extremely-high-speed CD/DVD drives, it's not unheard of for a
disk with a slight flaw or microscopic crack to "explode." I'd be
worried about the unbalanced weight and extra thickness of a sticker
precipitating -- or at least increasing the likelihood of -- a
catastrophic failure. 

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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