[149868] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: time sink 42
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Thu Feb 16 16:19:46 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120216211547.GA23755@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:18:42 -0800
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
To: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If they are Dell servers, you could always name each host in their BIOS so
it shows up on the display of the host.
-Mike
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> In a message written on Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 01:08:46PM -0800, 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.
>
> The Brother I have that takes "M" tape has the problem you describe,
> it's nearly impossible to get the backing to separate from the label.
>
> I have another Brother that takes "TZ" tape, the backing of the tape of
> slit down the middle lengthwise. Gently curling the tape by squeezing
> it causes the middle to pop open, easy to grab.
>
> You can guess which one sits on the shelf, and which one gets used a
> lot.
>
> The TZ tape unit I use is a P-Touch 1100QL, I don't think it's made
> anymore but there are several similar curent models.
>
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