[149866] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: time sink 42
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Thu Feb 16 16:15:14 2012
In-Reply-To: <m2aa4ih4f5.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:14:11 -0800
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Brothers' are fine; buy the tapes that have the split-down-the-middle
backing on them.
It reduces the unpeeling problem from
more-time-than-the-label-took-to-type-in to about 2 seconds. You just
grab the edges at an end and bend it, so the backing bulges outwards,
and off it starts to come.
-george
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> ok, this is horribly pragmatic, but it's real. =A0yesterday i was in the
> westin playing rack and stack for five hours. =A0an 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? =A0is there a (not expensive) different labeling machin=
e
> or technique i should use?
>
> randy
>
--=20
-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
