[149894] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: time sink 42
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sven Olaf Kamphuis)
Thu Feb 16 17:12:39 2012
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:11:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven@cb3rob.net>
To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFFgAjDmTMnwFDa8SrYQk+hYPMBVY4qZR-UguobjjrmroDjvXg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
you actually can do that from linux, integrate it into your
installer/imaging code and you're set ;)
just that dell seems to be the only one who has given this some thought ;)
but hey, you can just buy usb "photoframe" keychains, put the service-id
number in a jpeg image, store it on there, and keep one in a usb port
on each server ;)
they're dirt cheap.
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Mike Lyon wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
>> PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Mike Lyon
> 408-621-4826
> mike.lyon@gmail.com
>
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