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Server market revenue down 4.4 percent in Q4
Even as server shipments went up, revenue in the market declined in last year's fourth quarter, as demand for higher-end systems remained weak, according to research firm IDC.
Even as server shipments went up, revenue in the market declined in last year's fourth quarter, as demand for higher-end systems remained weak, according to research firm IDC.
Intel has added up to 15 cores in its latest Xeon E7 v2 family of server processors, but is stressing in-memory computing improvements with the latest chips.
Intel has released a new tool for remotely managing servers from multiple hardware vendors, though it's having to be careful not to upset partners as it looks to make more money from software.
Hewlett-Packard said security and safety updates will be provided to all its server users, after a controversy surrounding the company's decision to restrict access to firmware updates to server customers on warranty or covered by a support agreement...
Worldwide IT spending will grow by 4.6 percent this year, as enterprises look to upgrade storage, servers and networking equipment, according to market research company IDC.
Microsoft technologist Scott Guthrie has been appointed to lead the company's cloud and enterprise group, after the promotion of the former head, Satya Nadella, to the position of CEO of the company.
Fujitsu Laboratories and Furukawa Electric have developed an optical connector that could reduce connectivity costs for servers.
Intel is closing down its AppUp online application store as it sees a shift in the market and consumer needs.
Microsoft is contributing the designs of the cloud servers that run some of its services like Bing and Windows Azure to the Open Compute Project, in a bid to help standardize and reduce hardware costs.
Lenovo Group has agreed to buy IBM's x86 server hardware business and related maintenance services for $US2.3 billion.
IBM has revived efforts to sell its low-end server business and Dell, Fujitsu and Lenovo are all lining up to take a look, according to reports this week.
Vendors don't normally brag about slower products but Advanced Micro Devices is making an exception for its latest Opteron 6300 processors, which have a slower clock speed than their predecessors to reduce power consumption.
The next generation of IBM's X-series servers will be able to accommodate solid-state Flash drives clipped into their DIMM memory slots, potentially improving the response times of fast-paced enterprise applications.
Intel will add support for DDR4 memory to its high-end computers in the third quarter, sources familiar with the company's plans said.
Qualcomm's CEO said his company has the capabilities to build ARM server chips but was careful not to disclose any product plans at the International CES in Las Vegas.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
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My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.

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Very easy to use, superb image quality. Very solid construction. Out of the box, and click and go. Didn't need to read the manual to make goof pictures. (Did it afterwards). Outdoor pictures have very good and realistic colours. The macro setting is also very good. The battery lasts very long. Over 250 pictures.
If you don't want to mess with manual settings, and still want semi-pro quality this is THE camera.
The red-eye setting is poor, and doesn't work as wished. Sometimes the flash is too bright.
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Later Saturday, Mr. Gingrich, in response to a question from The Washington Times as to why he endorsed the liberal Republican first and had now switched to the Conservative Party candidate - whether he first put party over principle and now is reverting to his longtime view that principle comes first - said, "I did not put party over principle. There was an issue of two principles."
"First, always endorse the more conservative, and second, respect local leaders and local decisions," Mr. Gingrich said. "When the 11 local county chairs unanimously endorsed someone after four public meetings, I did not think it was my place to repudiate the entire local party leadership."
He said Mr. Hoffman's "rise is a result of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Fox News, the Club for Growth, Gov. [Sarah] Palin and [Minnesota Gov. Tim] Pawlenty and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and virtually the entire national conservative movement joining with Mike Long, whose Conservative Party, a very established organization, which won its first big race 39 years ago."
"This was not an isolated amateur; this is an entire movement." Mr. Gingrich said.
In a letter to supporters, Mrs. Scozzafava explained that in "recent days, polls have indicated that my chances of winning this election are not as strong as we would like them to be. … The reality that I've come to accept is that in today's political arena, you must be able to back up your message with money - and as I've been outspent on both sides, I've been unable to effectively address many of the charges that have been made about my record."
She did not, however, endorse Mr. Hoffman - or Mr. Owens, for that matter - saying instead that her supporters were free to go their own way.
"It's time for us to send a message to Washington: We're sick and tired of big-spending, high-taxing, career politicians and by voting for me on Tuesday you will send that message loud and clear," Mr. Hoffman said in a statement reacting to the news.
Mr. Owens praised Mrs. Scozzafava, blasting Mr. Hoffman and his conservative supporters.
"Voters have a clear choice on Tuesday: They can elect to go back to the George Bush economic agenda, or they can vote to move forward. Doug Hoffman and the Club for Growth's extremist agenda won't do a thing to get our economy moving again," he said.
Despite previously attacking Mr. Hoffman, Republican leaders on Saturday encouraged residents of the 23rd District to vote for him.
"He is the only active candidate in the race who supports lower taxes, fiscal responsibility and opposes Nancy Pelosi's agenda of government-run health care, more government and less jobs. We look forward to welcoming Doug Hoffman into the House Republican Conference as we work together for the good of our nation," House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Minority Whip Eric Cantor and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions said in a joint statement.
"This is both a tribute to the power of the national conservative movement to define an issue and a commentary on the populist anger against politics as usual," Mr. Gingrich said in a statement Saturday. "The New York [Republican Party] has now had two troubled special elections, and it is clear they should go to a primary nominating system so everyone would feel it was fair and open."
"I am endorsing Hoffman and believe everyone who wants to create jobs with lower taxes and to control spending and deficits should vote for Hoffman Tuesday," Mr. Gingrich said in his belated switch.
Mr. Hoffman spent Saturday campaigning with Mr. Pataki, while Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is hosting a rally on behalf of Mr. Owens on Monday.


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Sunset for the Ambassador: New Bridge Plan Coming Today
July 30, 2014
This is Ambassador Bridge…, photo by MaRia Popi Photography
Sunset, or at least twilight has arrived for the privately owned Ambassador Bridge. The AP is reporting that there's now a deal for the long-discussed bridge between Detroit & Windsor:
Canadian Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder have called a news conference Wednesday about the planned new $2 billion bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
Snyder's office said Tuesday that Raitt and the governor "will make an announcement regarding the New International Trade Crossing" at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Canadian Club Heritage Center in Windsor.
The governor's and transport minister's offices declined immediate comment Tuesday on the nature of the announcement.
Michigan and Canadian leaders have agreed to build the bridge over the Detroit River between Windsor and Detroit's southwest side.
Officials say Canada would finance construction of the bridge, which would open in 2020.
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LITTLE FALLS, N.J., March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CANTEL MEDICAL CORP. (NYSE: CMN) and the National Safety Council ("NSC") announced a joint marketing and distribution agreement to help businesses and other organizations prepare for the threat of a flu pandemic and similar infectious diseases. The World Health Organization continues to track the incidence of avian bird flu throughout the world and warns of the potential of mutation of the H5N1 virus that could result in a widespread human-to-human pandemic.
Under this agreement, Cantel Medical, an established leader in Infection Prevention and Control products to the medical and dental markets, through its Saf-T-Pak and Crosstex business units, will manufacture National Safety Council/Saf-T-Pak co-branded Flu Defense Kits and other product configurations that will include Crosstex face masks, hand sanitizers, gloves and surface disinfecting products. Cantel and National Safety Council will co-market these products, along with providing planning and educational services, to more than 50,000 NSC members that represent a broad spectrum of industries and more than 8.5 million employees.
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MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- InterComponentWare Inc. (ICW), a global leader in eHealth technology solutions, announced today its membership with the Center for Health Transformation (The Center), a collaborative organization of private and public sector organizations focused on improving health by promoting the adoption of more intelligent healthcare systems in the U.S. founded by former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.
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ICW CEO Jeremy P. Coote explains the synergy between ICW and The Center: "ICW has delivered secure, intelligent, and transparent medical information sharing between healthcare stakeholders and with the patient in Europe. The Center's quest for intelligent healthcare begins with sharing relevant, aggregated patient data, across providers to ensure coordination of treatment and to reduce unnecessary tests and procedures. ICW offers the mature, fully integrated technology to accomplish this goal and we will share our experience with The Center's members."
The Center's membership includes leaders from all areas of the U.S. healthcare marketplace: payers, providers, hospitals, technology companies, large pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology and diagnostic companies, along with policy organizations, not-for-profit associations and state representatives. David Merritt, Project Director for The Center, describes the membership as "An amalgamation of consulting, advocacy, think tank, public affairs, training and implementation."
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Even in this digital age, people are used to being still for getting a picture taken. I find it helps if you tell them how long they need to stay still.
One second or even a few seconds is generally not a problem, even for kids. For example, look at some of the portraits done on wetplate, 1 or 2 seconds is a short exposure in that realm.
DoF doesn't need to be a big problem either, mostly it's a problem of the subject going forward or back in relation to the camera, most people will move more side to side than fore and aft. Other than that it is what it is, and generally a subject's nose and ears won't both be in focus, if either are. If the basic plane of the face (eyes, cheeks, mouth) are, then you're golden.
Large Format lenses don't have all that much less DoF than a portrait length lens for cameras you have, if you're looking at 4x5.
There are mirror viewing gadgets that invert the image, most of them are specific to one camera or another, but would tend to be adaptable. It's easier though, to get used to composing upside down. It's easier than you might think.


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Concert review: Cantus at the Ventura Music Festival
Cantus ensemble delivers life-affirming wisdom at Ventura Music Festival
Cantus doesn't just sing, it teaches as its nine male voices rise in expressive strength. The a cappella group led Tuesday night's Ventura Music Festival audience through a performance of "A Place for Us" that resonated with voices of many lands and the common bond of a search for home that has touched all immigrants since the beginning of time.
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Chicago Surf at Montrose Beach provides an on-land surfing experience simulating ocean-like waves and has a full service restaurant! Read more
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Chicago Surf at Montrose Beach provides an on-land surfing experience simulating ocean-like waves and has a full service restaurant!
About this project
Founder, K.C. Hoos is a native Chicagoian. Growing up near the lakefront K.C. always enjoyed the beach and water activities. After living in Southern California for a few years and surfing there, K.C. has returned to his native roots - Chicago. One fall day, K.C. was driving south on Lake Shore Drive and the Lake Michigan waves were uniquely large enough to surf on. This got him thinking; "How cool would it be if you could surf in Chicago?!" So he began searching into options on how to make this a reality... Eventualy K.C. came across American Wave Machines' SurfStream®, a stationary surf machine which provides a controlled environment simulating surfing on real surf boards. It's fun for people of all ages and just as fun for others to watch. Anyone can use the SurfStream®, from beginners to professional surfers to continously improve their surfing skills.
So, over the past several years, K.C. has worked closely with the Chicago Park District to find the perfect location for this exciting new surf park. Montrose Beach was selected as the ideal location with its large sandy beach and expansive surrounding parks. The surf park will complement the other adventure sport and exercise programs currently at Montrose Beach, like; stand up paddle boards, kayaks, jet ski rentals, regular volleyball games and tournaments... In addition, Chicago Surf will offer special events, like Ametuer and Professional Surf Competions featuring actual pro surfers, skate boarders and Olympic champion snow boarders to compete in judged surfing tournaments. Chicago Surf at Montrose Beach will also include a beachside café and large patio seating, offering a front row view to the surfing action while enjoying fresh menu items such as salads, wraps, sandwiches, fish tacos, complemented by your favorite cold beverage. Lastly, Chicago Surf will have available various retail merchandise (sun screen, sun glasses, t-shirts, surf gear, volleyballs, soccer balls, and much more).
Chicago Surf LLC is the first and only surf park within Chicago's Cook County, IL. and is set to open this May 2015.
The SurfStream® is a stationary, on ground surf park and the only patented surf machine in the world that provides authentic surfing on real surfboards with the ability to deliver multiple wave types in one machine. This means that Chicago Surf at Montrose Beach can offer a flat wave type with safe adjustable water speeds and depths for beginners, and can quickly be changed to manageable 1' waves… up to challenging 6' waves breaking left, right or both! Chicago Surf at Montrose Beach can accommodate special events too; Birthday Parties, Day Camps, Nightly Surf Leagues, Surf Competitions, and even Corporate Events
Chicago Surf is a unique vendor at Montrose Beach offering all your Retail Merchandise. Chicago Surf will sell and rent items like; Sun Screen, Sun Glasses, Towels, Chicago Surf T-shirts, Hats, Surf Stickers, Volleyballs, Footballs, Soccer Balls, Frisbees, etc
We have launched this Kickstarter campaign and are offering some exciting Rewards to reach our GOALS:
1) Generating support and awareness around this exciting and unique new experience along Chicago's lakefront. You can now surf in Chicago! This stationary, ocean-like surf machine offers a fun and controlled surfing environment for everyone, from beginners to professionals. Surfing on a SurfStream® is capable of boogie boards, kayaks, kneeling, and stand-up surfing. The surf park is fun for even the non-surfers. It is just as fun to watch people surf! It is enjoyable to watch a beginner boogie boarding and quickly traansition to stand-up surfing, just as it is enjoyable to watch an experience surfer ride waves from 1' up to 6' tall!
2) With a successful Kickstarter we hope to add a heated tent during the colder months which will extend our surfing season into months like March / April, and September / October.
3) Lastly, help us exceed our Kickstarter goal and we will install a wider SurfStream® surf machine increasing our ability to accommodate more surfers at one time, which means more fun for everyone!
So, with your support, we can achieve our Kickstarter goals and help make Chicago Surf at Montrose Beach an amazing facility for everyone to enjoy! We look forward to you visiting us this 2015 season and thank you again for your support!SurfStream®,
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Chicago Surf LLC has worked closely with the Chicago Park District, Alderman, Police Commander, other neighborhood organizations, and engineers to ensure the surf park is properly installed to benefit the community and the City of Chicago.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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- Be one of the first to surf the SurfStream® with this 1 hour in length surfing certificate, redeemable anytime during regular surfing hours of operation. Thank you!
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This Reward includes your choice of our exclusive Chicago Surf T-Shirt or Hat, and one (1) hour surf session on our SurfStream® machine. Plus, you will receive a free Chicago Surf sticker! Thank You!
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"SURF, SURF, SURF!!!" This Reward is for three (3) surf sessions of one hour in length each. It also includes a FREE exclusive Chicago Surf t-shirt...!LessEstimated delivery:Ships to: Only United StatesManage your pledge
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It's summer, ditch school or work for a day! This Kickstarter ONLY Reward allows you UNLIMITED surfing for a whole day. Plus you will receive our exclusive t-shirt or Chicago Surf mesh hat!
(This package will not be offered during our regular hours of operations – Kickstarter ONLY). Thank You!
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Date TBD, but ETA early May 2015 at Montrose Beach. The Grand Opening will also include lots of fun music and many other giveaways! Thank You!
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Grab some friends and reserve your weekly surf league time slot now! Monday through Friday, Once a week for eight (8) weeks you can select the nightly surf time slot of your choice. Includes one cold beverage each week per person at our Chicago Surf patio.
For Instance, if you and your surf friends want to meet at the Surf Park every Wednesday night at 7pm and surf for an hour, improving your surf skills, learn new tricks, turns, jumps and sprays… This is your opportunity.
*Valid one hour/week, up to 10 people per hour, valid for a period of eight (8) consecutive weeks. Cold beverage voucher valid one (1) per person each week – cannot be carried over to other weeks or transferred onto to others.* Thank You!
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I can recall the old dymo my mum had - you know the ones where the black tape was clipped onto one side and fed through. Then turn the wheel to select the letter and press the clicker to emboss the tape then repeat with the next letter. Whilst there was nothing wrong with these the labels always looked a bit cheap and nasty as well as taking a long time. Well technology has moved on and now with this much neater labels can be produced quickly and easily.
This item cost me £29.99 from an online stationary company (name available on request), however, I have now seen it on sale for £17.53 directly from Dymo (typical isn't it)
What is in the pack?
The label maker is a reasonable size with a good sized screen (13 characters) but the lettered buttons are perhaps a little small. Whilst these buttons are fine for my dainty (for a man) fingers those with larger fingers or those with arthritis may find this a bit of a problem. There is also a single white paper label tape which is 4m in length so this is enough for many labels.
Clipped into the inside of the lid of the tape housing is a print head cleaner. This can be kept there for safe storage if, like me, you are always losing things like this.
The instruction manual provided is also nice and clear as is the warranty cards. If you register the item within 14 days of purchase you get a free 2 year warranty. I know this is pretty standard these days but if it is going to get a lot of use it is well worth it.
Using it:
Whilst you can use a mains adapter to power this unit you have to buy this separately. Alternatively you can use 4xAA batteries (not supplied). The batteries are, at the moment, my favoured method of powering it. You can buy a mains adapter for £28.79 from the same company I bought the machine from but you can probably find one cheaper elsewhere.
If you are going to use this to make labels for files in an office and it gets daily use then an adapter may be a good investment. I do feel that for the occasional home use the battery method is the best as you can always take the batteries out when it is not in use and you don't have another adapter in the draw to get all tangled up with the others.
The unit is heavier than it initially looks but some of this will be the batteries and it is not like carrying a brick and it does fit well in your hand. Although it is just as easy to use for both left and right handed people up to pressing the 'print' button I think the right handed have a slight advantage after as the label does come out on the right hand side.
Setting it up is fairly easy and installing the tape is easily done and does not require any fiddly lifting of x, pushing of y etc. which many things appear to have these days. After that and inserting the batteries you can set the size of the letters (5 sizes to choose from) I tend to stick with the default size as it is just easier and whether you want upper or lower case. There are also a set of 'special' characters you can use such as mathematical symbols and the Greek alphabet. International characters such as accents can be used simply by holding down the letter key and holding it until it scrolls through to the one you want so adding the umlaut etc. is nice and easy.
I am used to a QWERTY keyboard, as most of us are, so I was a little put off with the alphabetical order keyboard but this is a very minor gripe.
One thing I like about this is that you can do a two row label so you can fit twice as much on the same length of the tape. The 'style' of lettering can be changed from normal to italic and also so you can have just an outline of the letters (useful for multi-coloured labels - print on white paper tape and colour in yourself as it will only print in black) and also to have the letters printed horizontally along the length of the tape rather than the standard vertical (useful for labelling blank dvd cases)
If there are any labels you will want to print again and again you can store up to 9 in the memory of the machine so you don't have to type them out each time.
You can also add boarders to the words for the label including a crocodile and train (well a sort of crocodile and train). Perhaps useful if labelling up things belonging to young children.
Other bits to buy:
There are many different types of tape you can buy and use in this machine these include the paper tapes and plastic ones. Whilst the paper one only comes in white the plastic ones come in a range of colours. Also available are iron on labels - ideal for labelling your son or daughters school sports kit and school uniform.
On dymo's own website the tapes are priced from £3.23 for the white paper one to £4.33 for the silver 'metallic' one. (Prices include VAT but not delivery). Although you only get 2m of tape for the iron on one the rest are all 4m. The tapes are available from a good number of high street stores and they are at times on offer.
The print quality is good considering the price of the machine and it is an improvement on the old manual dymos. The label backing is reasonably easy to remove as it is in two halves so lightly bending the label makes the backing come up along the divide to this aid removal.
If you do use the 'two line' setting on the label please note that the printed letters are half the size in order to fit both rows on the 12mm width of tape.
I have mainly used the labels I have made for things in my kitchen as I have that many storage jars for things like lentils, rice etc. not to mention the different types of sugar I use for different cakes so getting them all clearly labelled was important. When it comes to herbs and spices I tend to keep them in the jars I bought them in and then simply buy refills but if you have a special set of jars for them then this is ideal for labelling them clearly. Also I have replaced my old hand written labels for my files in my filing cabinet.
The plastic tape is wipe clean with a damp cloth but I doubt the adhesive will survive very long if the item e.g. storage jar is immersed in water for too long or too often.
Well the body of the unit just wipe over with a slightly damp cloth. You are advised to clean the cutting blade every time you replace the tape (so after every 4m of tape used). However, if you use a number of different colours or types of tape this is more difficult to do. I would say clean it once every two months if it is used fairly often. Doing this is a bit fiddly the first time but easier after that all it takes is a cotton wool bud dampened with a little alcohol (no vodka DOESN'T count). I tend to use the alcohol that comes with those cd cleaning kits. Also when the print quality looks a bit off the print head can be cleaned using the head cleaner provided. Just make sure the cloth like side is lightly held against the print head, so facing away from the keyboard.
Screen size: 2.5" (6.5 cm) diagonal
Unit size (lxwxh) : 9"x3.5"x2.5" (23cm x 9cm x 6.5cm approx.)
Unit weight (including tape and batteries): 390g
Although not exactly a must have item it has made my kitchen cupboards easier to organise and I no longer have to have my illegible handwriting on the tabs of my files in the filing cabinet.
I would give this 4.5 stars if half stars were allowed but this is mainly just because it isn't a QWERTY keyboard so it is closer to 5 than 4.
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I don't suppose there are many who have not heard someone mutter those immortal words, "Age does not come on its own, you know." Just as they experience their first arthritic twinge, discover the need for spectacles or can't quite remember where they last put the shopping list they have just remembered they'd written.
Well - so far I have not felt any arthritic twinges or mislaid any shopping lists. Ok - so I do need glasses, but that's not age related - is it?
However, I was beginning to noticed that it was taking me much longer to find things these days and was forever saying to myself , or the dogs, "Now where in the blazes did I put that...?" or words to that effect, as if they could magically point me in the right direction.
In my younger days, I didn't have a lot to store; all that I had could be neatly filed away in a set of four drawers and a couple of cupboards, there was no space to hoard, so it was never difficult to find any item I wanted; but now, a few decades on I have at least twenty seven drawers and six cupboards where I keep cameras, paper, letters, photographs, inks, a plethora of office equipment, manuals, chargers, batteries, USB leads and so on and so forth; so was it any wonder? I ask, that I verged on the brink of quoting that well worn , yet meaningful phrase beginning "Age does not..."
My Eureka moment came one day when, after searching through eleven of the twelve drawers, I found what I was searching for in the twelfth; feeling a tad irritated that I didn't think to look there first.
Ping! The speech bubble above my head would have read - "Labels, that's what I need - labels on each drawer," and so the idea was born. If I was to speed up the process of finding an item , thereby avoiding the necessity of asking my dogs, the only way was to label each drawer with the contents therein. My Old Dymo printing machine, which embossed lettering on thick strips of red plastic, was ideal for use in the tool shed, but not a neat solution for furniture.
So off I went to WH Smiths, where I knew they sold labelling machines, and purchased the Dymo LetraTag LT-100H thermal label maker.
The first thing that struck me about the machine was its smooth, ergonomic design, with the underside curving gently downwards into a shape which, with perfect balance, fits snugly into the hand.
Made of strong plastic, with batteries and label cassette in situ, its working weight is 375g, just slightly heavier than the hand set of a modern cordless phone
The overall length is 21cm and width, 8cm. The LCD screen, sloping away at a slight angle, measures 5.5cm x 2.5cm, behind which is the hinged casing for the cassette. Four AA batteries are housed in an enclosed recess on the underside. The unit can also be powered using a 9 Volt, 1.5 Amp power adaptor which, when in use will disconnect the batteries as a power source.
Jutting out from the right hand side is a large lever which when depressed, cuts the printed label free from the tape.
Below the screen is what I shall refer to as the 'Control centre;' five round keys, the functions of which I shall describe in more detail later, are used to select and set the desired format and print size of the label, they are positioned in an arc round a large, circular navigation disc.
The small red button on the top left, is the on/off switch; the large lozenge shaped one on the top right, is the print key.
Below the control centre is a set of three white, rectangular keys, one of which is used for storing up to nine label texts in the memory for future use and the second, for recalling the stored info to print.
The third white key is to select either capital or lower case lettering. Next to this is a turquoise key to select numbers.
Under these keys are the letters of the alphabet, printed in black on air-force blue rectangular keys, starting at A, ending in Z (not in the familiar Qwerty style) Also printed, very faintly in white, on the first ten alphabet keys, are the numbers 1 to 9, plus a 0. To print numbers, the turquoise keys is depressed once, and depressed a second time to return to the lettering mode.
At the bottom of the unit, are three more keys, a white one labelled CLEAR, used to remove any text and previous formatting inreadiness for new input; a white arrowed key, to back space and delete the previous letter(s); and a long blue space key.
In the control centre, the name and function of the five keys, arranged in an arc round the navigation disc, are as follows - from left to right.
1. CANCEL, which when pressed, will exit you from the menu and cancel any selection made.
2. INSERT, this key gives entry to a selection of sub menus, and by using this key in conjunction with the navigation disc and the OK key, it is possible to print a date and/or one of 195 symbols, or insert a second line.
3. SETTINGS, this key opens a set of 4 options to choose from; again using the navigation disc to select and OK key to set the selection. The first of the options is to set the contrast on the LCD screen to suit personal taste. The second choice is to set the date, the third is to set the language and the fourth, when selected will show a preview of the label before it is printed.
4. FORMAT, this is the key to 3 sub menus, the first being the size of print, showing a choice of five sizes, from extra small to extra large. The second allows a choice between eleven border designs, and the third gives a choice between six font styles. i.e Normal, italic, shadow, outline, bold or vertical.
5. OK, this key is depressed each time a selection is made - for example:
If I want to choose to print a label where the letters are arranged vertically (assume I have already selected the size of print) I would press FORMAT, then using the navigation disc, select STYLE, then press OK, which will then give me a choice of styles, then once again use the navigation disc to find the vertical style and press OK, if I wanted to print the lettering in bold, I would use the same STYLE key again, select Bold and then OK. The machine will then be set up to print the label in bold lettering, vertically onto the tape.
It is worth mentioning here that although a label can be printed with two lines of text, this can only be achieved when the lettering sizes selected are from large to extra small.
~~~~The Dymo label maker cassettes~~~
The cassettes hold 4m of 1.2cm width tape. There are a variety of tapes available, made of either, paper, thin plastic or iron-on tape for clothing. The paper tapes can have a metallic background finish in green or white, or can be plain non-metallic finish. The plastic tapes come in a choice of colours, white, transparent, yellow or red.
WH Smith seems only to stock the white plastic tape, but others can be bought on line at www.dymo.com.
Our small WH.Smiths has since stopped stocking these, so I am pleased that I can order them on line.
~~~~My impression~~~~
The machine came in one of those irritatingly difficult to open, cellophane skin-wrapped packages on card. Include in the package was a small, comprehensive User guide, in three languages. Batteries and AC power cable were not included.
The cost to me was £25.98 at WH Smiths, last year, but it will be worth shopping around for a better price, if not in a hurry, for Smiths are notoriously expensive.
Since purchasing this machine, I have found many situation where labels conveniently save precious time, and moments of exasperation.
I have labelled drawers, and cupboards, it looks neat and almost decorative. The labels are easily removed when an item is relocated, thrown out or replaced. No sticky residue is left. I am pleased to say that it is very economical on batteries. Even though I use rechargeable batteries. I have only needed to recharge them once in six months.
I have also labelled electrical plugs, remotes, chargers and USBs, indicating which piece of equipment each belongs. I have also labelled the spines of my CD/DVD jewel cases so that I can see at a glance what is in the case without having to remove it from the rack first, and finally, my ring files and box files. I have since started labelling boxes stored in my new shed. Now my sister wants one of these.
I must have saved myself hours of frustrating search-time in the past year or so, even a burglar, should he dare try to get past my dogs unnoticed, would thank me for making life easier for him.
2013:Unfortunately Smiths no longer stock the label cassettes for these, but they can be purchased on line.
Once you have a label maker, it's amazing how many things you can find to label! From the plugs in the rats nest of wires behind the computer so that you know which is which, to tent poles so you can match them up correctly. The Dymo LetraTAG will label pretty much anything.
This is a hand-held machine (just a bit too big to be comfortable in one hand), it doesn't need a computer to make it work so you can use it anywhere. It takes a variety of colours and textures of tape - white paper, coloured plastic etc. all of which are sticky on the back. The tape comes in easy-to-load cassettes, they just clip in and you can change over part way through a cassette with no problem. It is battery powered - I've had mine a year and not yet needed to change the batteries.
The tapes are all the same width, so if you want a tiny label you can use the smaller font sizes but have to trim the tape, but that's about the only problem I've had with it. And if there were a variety of tape widths you'd never have the one you need anyway!
This machine is the natural and much more flexible successor to the old manual dymo tape machines where the letters were raised. There are various font sizes and decorative borders/edges including a steam train, hearts, flowers or a crocodile if you're labelling for kids. It also includes a reasonable set of symbols, rather like wingdings - things like smiley faces, a skull and crossbones and various arrows.
I can't really find any faults with this machine, if you want to label stuff or just play about it's great.
I bought my Dymo LetraTag about a year ago and it works like a dream. I originally bought it because I do a lot of baking and like to label items when I bake for friends. The Dymo is a hand-held device that allows you to create your own neat, self-adhesive labels. You have a choice of white or clear labels (the refill tape can be interchanged at will). It also allows you to format the size of the letters and style of the writing (6 settings for each), and also allows you to choose borders for your labels (8 different settings as well as simple underlining). The best feature is that it has a 9 label memory for those labels which you might need to use often.
The design of the Dymo is stylish and user-friendly. It has a lovely blue surface with silver along the sides. The buttons are clear and easy to use. The screen is not high-tech, but is clear and does what it is meant to do. The batteries also last reasonably long (I use 4 rechargeable AA batteries). The Dymo is quite expensive at about £30.
An excellent choice for those who want to label school stationary for their children.


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What a night that was: In all of his solo forays David Byrne has never come as close to matching the complexity, theatricality and sheer exuberance of his Talking Heads heyday as he did Friday night at the Greek Theatre, in a performance devoted to songs old and new culled from collaboration with producer Brian Eno, essentially the fifth Head during the band's stunningly progressive 1978-82 era and co-creator of the new album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. (Though not yet available in traditional form, it's streaming for free at Byrne's official site.) Rather than radicalize classic T-Heads tracks like "Crosseyed and Painless" and "Houses in Motion" and "Once in a Lifetime," Byrne stuck to the arrangements from Stop Making Sense, drawing distinct parallels to optimistic new material and pushing himself to sing with the nervy power and fervency he had in his prime. It was the sort of experience some of us fans have been waiting to have for a looooong time. Read my complete review and see pics here, or click for the complete set list.
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Main set: Strange Overtones / I Zimbra / One Fine Day / Help Me Somebody / Houses in Motion / My Big Nurse / My Big Hands (Fall through the Cracks) / Heaven / ????* / The River / Crosseyed and Painless / Life Is Long / Once in a Lifetime / Life During Wartime / I Feel My Stuff
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Wow, what a lot of feedback on both blogs around the Windows Forms vs WPF debate. All good comments and excellent feedback folks, thanks very much. For those who haven't read or partaken in the discussions, allow me to provide some background.
Our current set of certifications and exams for the developer community contain MCTS exams for Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation. Our MCPD exams currently provide for Windows Developer, Web Developer and Enterprise Developer. The requirements sparked some debate over the Windows Forms exam being a part of the enterprise developer track but not the WPF exam. To be honest, I interacted with about 10 people total who wanted either the option to choose, or for Windows Forms to be replaced by WPF. The rest, all supported the Windows Forms decision.
Now, I have a background in the HVAC/R industry. Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration. Stay with me for a minute and you'll see where I'm heading with this. There is an organization that deals with the engineering aspects of this industry known as the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers. These guys are engineers who do nothing but study, design and test aspects of pretty much everything HVAC related so they must know what they are talking about, right?
ASHRAE has a rule that states for comfort in an office building, you will never be able to satisfy more than 80% of the people at any one time. This means that if you sit in an office where there are cubicles, let's say, and there are four of you in a location next to each other. This means that temperature wise, only 3.2 of you will be happy at best with the settings. I can validate and verify that form my experience working in the industry many moons ago.
Now, what does that have to do with Windows Forms and WPF? Quite simply the same rule applies. No matter what decision is made in regards to coverage of these technologies for certifications, at best, only a certain percentage of you will be happy. Can we make it to 100%? No we cannot. Can we get close? I certainly hope so.
As a result, here is what I am proposing for the Visual Studio 2010 certifications. There will be one MCTS exam and one MCPD exam that will focus strictly on Windows development. This does not mean Windows Forms only. Windows development means Windows Forms OR WPF.
Microsoft's direction is that desktop development should be done using WPF. I don't disagree. However, I also know that not everyone is or will be developing using WPF and some will still continue to use Windows Forms. As a matter of fact, unless I am missing a lot of WPF knowledge (this may be true), WPF still does not contain a replacement WPF version for each and every Windows Forms control. I think we're getting close though. This means that you still require at least "some" knowledge of Windows Forms.
As a result, when the exam starts development later this year, your peers, and even some of you who are interested and qualified, will help decide the coverage of Windows Forms and WPF on the exams. That's right, contrary to popular belief, I nor MSL, nor Microsoft decides what goes on these exams. It is decided by your peers who work with this technology on a day to day basis. Yes, I do guide the coverage and yes I do influence a certain amount but only to the point where it makes sense for the entire audience and the certifications from the portfolio perspective.
SO. Interested in being heard and having some input into the exam contents? Let me know. I will need to evaluate your expertise and experience with the technologies and of course, you familiarity with our certifications would help greatly. Interested only because you want to squash Windows Forms and scream WPF from atop Mt. Everest, or at least here in Redmond, atop Mt. Rainier? Well, that's not what the exam process is all about but your still welcome to come with an objective view.
I don't have dates yet for when these exams will take place and we have options for participating in various stages throughout the exam dev cycle. Some stages do not have options for changing the exam design however.
Please don't flood my inbox, and remember that there are only so many openings available, but send your intention along with qualifications to me at gerry.obrien@ you know the rest. I make no guarantees you will be chosen, there other exams too, and you will be contracted through a third party so ensure there are no conflicts with existing contracts or employers, but I am happy to have you help out with the exams.
As usual, comments and suggestions are welcome.
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Hi Gerry
Reading your analogy with your HVAC/R background, I thought to might want to have a think by looking at a Microsoft analogy that would come to an opposite conclusion to what you have.
Here it goes: When Win 7 is released, the total demand for WinXP & Vista will still remain higher than Win7. So what does Microsoft do, concentrate their effort on WinXP & Vista because that is where the numbers is; no way!! Similarly the concentration should no longer be on WinForms but on WPF Apps.
The WinForms could well remain at the Ver 3.5 exams & going forward could be WPF. After all there is nothing major new added to WinForms in .NET 4.
Microsoft have always looked to the future but where this exam thing seems to be going just doesn't seem consistent to me.
You are one of those 20% I'm talking about.
You have voiced your opinion many times in the past two blogs about what you want. Your comments have been heard however, the decision does not rest with you and I stand by my decisions.
As I stated, we will create the exam with the content that the majority of people want. We have to reach a balance point.
I knew the decision didn't stand with me or for that matter anyone else but with you & I knew that when I first made my comment as you already said that it was 99% decided at that stage. I did realise that all you were doing was looking for something to justify your decision. It seems to me that you weren't looking to listen to reason although you might say so. I've given my comments so you can either listen or not it is up to you.
Since you indicate that the decision is 100% now, I see little to make any further comment to you on this & waste any furthe time with this. Good luck with you future exams.
Any comments on how Microsoft will make a single exam that will cover both Windows Forms and WPF?
Really, both Windows Forms and WPF could easily fill up two exams each in the current time limits placed on certification exams.
What are these exams going to look like? Are they just going to be survey exams of WPF and Windows Forms? I just don't see how on earth Microsoft will cram both of these two enormous subjects into one single exam.
On a different track, for your comments:
"As a matter of fact, unless I am missing a lot of WPF knowledge (this may be true), WPF still does not contain a replacement WPF version for each and every Windows Forms control."
You are pretty much correct, unless you are using the beta version of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. Kudos to the .NET 4.0 WPF and Visual Studio 2010 teams. It looks like they are finally filling in the missing pieces of WPF that have always made me reluctant to recommend WPF for a production UI.
I don't know if Microsoft fully realizes just how much support they gave to WPF by dog-fooding it with Visual Studio 2010 and Blend. I can't put into words just how much easier it is to recommend WPF when Microsoft is actually creating major products with it.
Hi Trent,
Thanks for the comments. You are correct, one exam cannot possibly cover all that is present in both technologies. One exam can't cover everything for just one of these let alone two.
It's not my intention to do so. There will be coverage on Windows Forms as necessary but I fully suspect the experts we bring in will give the lion's share to WPF. Just a thought, if may not go that way but we'll wait and see.
I also believe that MS does indeed know how much of a boost they are giving WPF with VS 2010. I really like what I see in this next version. Now if I could just time to actually use it more...... :-)
Hi Jerry,
I have missed out on previous debates but I am both an MCPD in Windows and Windows 3.5, I did a couple of hours study for 70-505, nothing much had really changed since 2.0. I will probably not use WPF anytime soon, I think combining the exam will be detrimental. I will probably be able to pass the 4.0 windows exam if combined with very shaky WPF skills, this does not help employers know where peoples skills lie. Projects will be either WPF or Windows, knowing people's skill set is important. I think there is little value in testing windows client programming with new exams if it is not going to be moving forward as a technolgy and it undermines the WPF skills test. Also from my perspective it is a waste of money and time taking exams to prove your skills are current when nothing has changed.
Thanks for your consideration.
P.S 80% of people can be wrong otherwise how else could we be in a credit crisis :-)
Hi Geoff,
You're correct, the Windows exams didn't change much. However, keep in mind that Windows Developer will mean WPF. :-)
ps, I hope your reading and skills improve. I'll leave that as a puzzle for you to figure out. :-)
Hi Gerry,
I vote for RIA MCPD =)
We are currenlty use WPF and Silverlight only. So there is no way for us to get MCPD without useless studying of ADO.NET and WinForms.
For example why I think ADO.NET exam is useless for many people: perhaps 80% of people uses ORMs or P&P Data Access over it.
And surely WinForms should be OPTIONAL! I'm working with .NET about 5 years and I never use it at ALL!
Alexey Zakharov.
Hi Alexey,
Thanks for the feedback.
I agree with Geoff, significant new technology and core development skills should require new exams.
What should not immediately require new exams are :-
1. New MS versions or product releases.
2. Exam re-structuring
3. Certification path changes etc.
The fact that you are innovating on the cert tracks should not punish those that have already certified. Old exams should remain valid on new tracks.
I think you are not taking Geoff's points onboard judging by your remarks.
People who certified on version 2.0 or 3.5 should not have to jump through hoops every ten minutes in order to remain employable or be able to market themselves in todays climate.
Certifications main value is to show employers a level of competency, it takes years for the employment market to understand a certification track, innovating this often just causes pain for developers that try to cetify.


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