AMEN!!! Those yellow stickies all over the CD case just don't cut it and there is not enough screen space on any terminal I've seen that replaces multiple books open at the same time or books with paper weights holding them open to two separate sections for quick flipping.
On the other hand, the CDs are easier to come by and I've learned to live with them. Kevin Kennedy First Point Energy Corporation -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:03 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L CDs have some advantages - expense, searchability, and storage space primarily, but... 1) CDs are more difficult to read in bed, on a plane, waiting in the terminal, etc. 2) Books are easier to read, require less equipment, and are more portable than a computer and a CD 3) Try having six different CD manuals open to related sections spread out in front of you - reading them while you work against the database. 4) An open book shows two full pages of information. An open PDF about half a page. 5) I could usually grab a manual and flip through it to the relevant info about 10x faster than a computer search - and with a lot less extraneous (click/point/scroll/type) activity. 6) Highlighters, margin notes, and sticky-note bookmarks don't work at all with CDs I miss hardcopy manuals! Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 3:18 PM RE: RE: RantNot me. I LOVE the cds. I copy them onto my hard drive and use the pdf versions..... they are SEARCHABLE. I can find things much more quickly in the pdf's than paper. Oracle is the only product that I feel this way about ...... probably because they have more documentation than the library of congress! -----Original Message----- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 3:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I can see why they stopped distributing them though, it must have been costly. It doesn't remove the fact that it would be handy to have paper copies of the manuals. It's hard to put yellow sticknote tabs on a CD. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services | Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO | Région des Maritimes, MPO E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Don Granaman INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: kkennedy INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
