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Daemon News in Dead Tree

Posted by AilleCat on from the mailman-ate-my-subscription dept.

Gregory Sutter wanted to let us know that "Daemon News now has a get-it-in-your-snail-mail print publication that you'll actually receive. The Daemon News Magazine is about to ship issue #3 to subscribers, and due to all the hungry-mailman problems that we experienced with the last mailing, we're including issue #2 with all #3 subscriptions received within the next 24 hours. (After tomorrow, subscriptions will start with issue #3.) We've tamed the angry mailmen, so you'll actually get your mags on time. The DN Magazine has original BSD and Open Source content not found in the DN ezine."

6 comments

  1. Re:ah by gsutter · · Score: 1

    All subscribers were emailed a notice of the shipping situation. If you didn't get yours, perhaps you didn't give a valid email address when you ordered? If you want to correct it, mail sales@daemonnews.org with your correct contact information (and a way to correlate it with the info already in the database).

  2. ah by holzp · · Score: 1

    and here i thought they just missed me. whew!

  3. Re:Paper's for losers by The+Roach · · Score: 1

    Why move to paper? Aren't we supposed to be moving the other way, to a paperless era, anyway? We're supposed to be the most high-tech geeks on the planet and we're moving towards paper?

    There are several reasons for a hardcopy version:
    - read it where no computer is
    - during electricity failures (I heard they were quite common in California recently ;-) )
    - for information needed at a time that you are at the computer but have no net access (boot problems? Installation issues?)

    Just a few ideas
    --

    --
    penI'yIn 'ej pechep

    The Roach

  4. Re:[toilet] Paper's for losers by TWX_the_Linux_Zealot · · Score: 1

    Personally, I don't read in the can, I want to get outta there as fast as I feasibly can!

    Of course, if it were a Microsoft magazine, at least I'd have SOME use for it in the restroom... <grin>

    "Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."

    --

    IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
    And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
  5. Excellent by thallgren · · Score: 2

    One big advantage of a paper mag over an eZine is that you can "forget" the mag at strategical places at work. :-)

    Thanks!

    Regards, Tommy

  6. Re:Paper's for losers by gsutter · · Score: 3

    Unless you've got a terminal in your lavatory, you can't read the ezine in the can. The print magazine works nicely there, and in any number of other places without live internet access.

    In addition, a paper version is yet another forum for getting BSD information to those who may not have it. Not everyone reads websites or surfs around, or has the leisure of doing that whenever they want. You don't have to pay by the minute or by the byte to read a magazine.