Fri May 15 20:01:24 CEST 2015
Aufkleberlaengenfunktion
When we install a new server in our data center, there are six to ten labels to be printed, usually indicating the hostname and IP address:
- server chassis, front and back
- network cables (often two of them), labeled at each end
- power cables (often two of them), labeled at each end
For the last twenty years, it always irked me that I wasted more laminated tape space for gaps between those labels (5cm) than for the actual labels themselves (3cm). Today was a slow day at work (nudged between a holiday and the weekend), and a fine occasion to study the P-Touch PT-310 manual. Result:
Pardon the crappy cell phone photo, but you get the picture... Hurray - no more gaps!
The manual features lots of exaggerated compound nouns the German language is so notorious for but which only occur in texts translated from other languages. Speak along with me:
Bandauslaufschlitz, Unterstreichen-Funktionstaste, Druckwiederholfunktion, Bandabschneidehebel, Aufkleberlaengenfunktion
Luckily, I just had to disable the automatische Bandvorschub.