> On Mar 14, 2016, at 04:42 , Eygene Ryabinkin <rea+na...@grid.kiae.ru> wrote: > > Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 05:10:26PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: >> Whatever you do, please do not use Flag labels on cables… I HATE >> THEM. They are a constant source of entanglement and snags. They >> often get knocked off as a result or mangled beyond recognition, >> rendering them useless. > > Hadn't seen that for ages, using Brother P-touch printers for > small amounts of work and Avery Zweckform paper + laser printing > for large cable installations. This stuff (Avery paper), > http://computing.kiae.ru/~rea/wiring-porn-2.jpeg > lives already for 5+ years and outlived many replacements of > spine modules (that's InfiniBand fabric) and other operations > without labels being ruined in any way.
Sorry… To be clear, those hideous attrocities of P-Touch nastiness are exactly what I meant by flag labels. I had forgotten about the plastic zip ties with the over-sized surface on the ratchet. Compare to: http://www.cableorganizer.com/images/brady/brady-idxpert/labels-markers/images/01-idxpert-markers-labels-cables.jpg http://neumannmarking.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/135866255-300x199.jpg http://www.hotblog.co.uk/boblittlepr/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cable-labels_Cormant_1.jpg Admittedly, I’m not wild about the bar-code scheme in the last one as I prefer human-readable labels, but YMMV. Owen