[149865] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: time sink 42
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Foster)
Thu Feb 16 16:13:28 2012
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:12:15 +1300
From: Mark Foster <blakjak@blakjak.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <m2aa4ih4f5.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 17/02/12 10:08, Randy Bush wrote:
> ok, this is horribly pragmatic, but it's real. yesterday i was in the
> westin playing rack and stack for five hours. an horrifyingly large
> amount of my time was spent trying to peel apart labels made on my
> portable brother label tape maker, yes peeling the backing from a little
> label so remote hands could easily confirm a server they were going to
> attack.
>
> is there a trick? is there a (not expensive) different labeling machine
> or technique i should use?
>
> randy
>
Many label makers (including Brother) use tapes that have a split up the
middle of the back layer, so you can peel it off half-at-a-time and not
fight with finding edges, etc.
Otherwise I suppose it's just a case of finding the knack. My label
maker is of the cheaper variety and the tape i've been getting for it
doesn't have the back-split, so I get to fight with it on the occasion
that the knack doesn't seem to work...
Mark.
