[149902] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: time sink 42
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Thu Feb 16 17:43:19 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F3D82EB.7000505@foobar.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:42:02 -0800
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 16/02/2012 21:14, George Herbert wrote:
>> 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. =A0You just
>> grab the edges at an end and bend it, so the backing bulges outwards,
>> and off it starts to come.
>
> Well, that's the theory anyway. =A0The reality is that the split doesn't
> quite split, and because the tape is so small, you need a child's fingers
> to open it out. =A0If you're doing all the labelling after a long day's w=
ork,
> you might have worked up a sweat, in which case your hands will be covere=
d
> with salt - and we all know how well labels stick after being pawed at wi=
th
> a salty fingernail.
I've done several dozens of reels worth of the split-back (TZ type, I
guess) tape, as well as about an equal amount of the old non-split
tape, in datacenters and network centers going back into the early
1990s. The worst split tape was at least partly splitting and much
better than the non-split stuff.
Once I had it figured out I could pop it open and start unpeeling
blind, without looking at it. Even at the end of the day with grime
and dust and salt on my fingernails.
Your mileage may vary, but in my experience it just about always just works=
.
--=20
-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
