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Free LinuxExpo Exhibit Passes
Well, I seem to be the Santa Claus of conference exhibit-only passes today. As the title would make obvious, we've got fifty free LinuxExpo passes. The conference is in Raleigh-Durham, May 18-22. Click below if you want address information and such.
OK, kids, I need a stamped, self-addressed envelope. I'm not paying for your fun. :) Send that to:
LinuxExpo Passes
116 E.18th
Holland, MI
49423
Wordperfect does (or at least used to) include a font which comes out as barcodes. Any worthwhile label software will do it too. The bar code is just the zip code.
I want it!!!!!!!! gimmie gimmie gimmie NOW!!
either we are networking or we areNT networking
Well expect a Saturday Delivery FEDEX pack from me :)
This brings up an intersting question (that should probably be posted to "Ask Slashdot").
Does anyone know about the routing information printed via the half barcode on the bottom of the letters the USPS delivers? I assume they have something to do with the zip code, but:
thanks.
danec. http://www.carlsoncarlson.com/dane/
DO we just mail this envelope and get free tickets? Do we need an address, a phone number, anything included? ???
bleh... answer me if possible
My little sad piece of the internet: www.mtndewd
now we get to /. the US Postal Service, too! Is there any transport medium we can't grind to a screeching halt? 'course, the USPS isn't exactly known for its blazing speed in the first place. if this spreads much farther, we're in big trouble - just think of what the /. effect could do to lines at the DMV...
You mean they're charging for this travesty? Employers are actually reimbursing it?
I was there a couple of years ago. The high point was some college professor type haranguing a corporate manager about his "worthless OS" (Linux) not supporting his Winmodem and how he had wasted a whole $30. Oh puleeze. This particular manager knew the score, and I saw many of my suggestions incorporated in the next release.
Not many vendors to begin with, the booths were staffed with airheads unprepared to discuss the pros and cons of their wares. At least Comdex is a good show.
But mostly, the people who staff the booths only work on the products, they almost never have used them the way the end user would. I mean keep track of mailing lists, do the web pages, annual reports, etc. And they aren't interested in this type of feedback.
This is why Corel sent out the Netwinder without PPP support or a serial port. Now what in Sam Hill was anybody going to do with that? I see so many other crippling decisions in the Linux world. Vendors just don't realize this is a prime opportunity to gather feedback.
what happens when you get 8000 self-addressed stamped envelopes?
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BAH! WHO CARES... IT'S AN EXCUSE FOR A ROAD TRIP!
Ah, sounded tempting but I'm just going there to browse the booths and basically bask in the whole damned concept.
Besides, the odds of me being one of the first 50 if I don't fedex the damned thing...? =)
Quux
My
Quux26
www.crashspace.net
Ah, sounded tempting but I'm just going there to browse the booths and basically bask in the whole damned concept.
Quux
You mail a self addressed stamped envelope. In other words, and envelope with *your* name and address on it, and with a stamp on it. You put that envelope *inside* another one with thier address on it, and a stamp as well.
If changing the shape of a computer makes it easier to sell, I just find that stupid, and the buyers stupid. It's as if a car with the body of a Porsche and the enginer of a lawnmower is better and more sellable than a good solidly built dependable car of equal price. I find consumers wierd.
im down with that!
> if this spreads much farther, we're in big /. effect could do to lines at
/. is great at slowing remote things down, but NO BODDY can top the DMV. Even /. coulnd't make the DMV slower. /. is of the Earth - powered by nerd-geeks, but the DMV has supernatural powers culled from their friends in the 7th circle of hell.
> trouble - just think of
> what the
> the DMV..
Hahahaha. Yeah, right.
Just my 1.9 cents worth.
E
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Damnit... thats the week we put in our new y2k complieant billing and scheduling system.. I can leave..... AAARRRGGGHHH
Now to find fifty self-addressed stamped envelopes.. }:>
Hey y'all- you do realize that these are exhibit passes, right? That means no talks, right?
I wrote you a month ago asking for dibs on a freebie. :) Oh well. See all ya'll there!
Erik
Man... Since this went up I've gotten 7 phone calls from other people in the building asking me if I'd seen this and if I'm sending a S.A.S.E in! Now I've got people wanting to catch RIDES! Just wait a sec. folks.
As I understand it, it's just done by the sender to make it easier on the USPS (they just have to scan it for the zipcode instead of doing it manually), thus making the letter generally get to where it's going a bit faster. This is usually done by businesses who send out lots of stuff, and I think you can buy machines/programs+hardware that can do it.
why not go? maybe they will have demos of the new iDells there
OK, between you and Linuxtoday that means that I have at least 100 attendees for my Saturday afternoon talk.
Whaddyamean - you can't be up at 1:30 ?
See you
The non-anonymous non-coward Toon Moene.