the BBC cover the new Ubuntu Karmic Koala release

Posted by Adrian on Oct 28, 2009 in Open Source | 0 comments With the recent release of Windows 7 getting widespread publicity as a half decent replacement for Vista, widely acknowledged to be a failure, its great to see the BBC covering the new Ubuntu release on their homepage yesterday.  You can read all about it here.  I will be using it, and its free, as in speech as well as beer. Give it a go – just download the CD ISO image and try it from...
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New YouTube video – an introduction to Label Lock security seals

Posted by Adrian on Oct 22, 2009 in Labels, Security Labels | 0 comments YouTube Video of Label Lock Security seals Label Lock security seals are our flagship product, and we are delighted to lauch this video on YouTube today to showcase the many and varied applications for both low residue and Dual Layer Label Lock security labels.  I hope you enjoy...
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Efficient Pc has closed – for cheap Linux PC’s in the UK try Ginger6

Posted by Adrian on Oct 15, 2009 in Open Source | 2 comments My home PC was a 9 year old Dell heavyweight box (1ghtz pentium with 512mb ram running ubuntu 9.04) given to me years ago, and it finally gave up its lust for life recently and started tripping my home electrics. Looking for a new supplier of a good value linux desktop I initially ordered from Efficient PC, but after some days of no response I cancelled the order by email and bought a custom made...
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New YouTube video – an introduction to digital label printing

Posted by Adrian on Oct 8, 2009 in Labels | 0 comments A YouTube video introduction to digital label printing At Mercian Labels we have been advocates of digital label printing for many years as it offers so many benefits for label users.  We have recently put together this video introduction to digital label printing that shows the process, benefits and finishes you can achieve using digital label printing. I hope its enoyable and informative to...
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Avery Dennison to start recycling PET liner

Posted by Adrian on Oct 5, 2009 in Labels | 0 comments As pointed out in a recent blog comment, the Avery Dennision group is to trial the bulk recycling of PET liner from its Fasson brand label stock, the first time I have heard of this type of scheme.  This is a positive step, and I hope that UPM Raflatac and others follow suit. It is just a shame that its restricted to PET synthetic liner only, as its used in a very small percentage of total label...
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Zimbra MTA postfix will not start bug solution after restart

Posted by Adrian on Oct 5, 2009 in Open Source | 0 comments A technical post here… this weekend we had a problem where one of the partitions on our zimbra email server reached 100% capacity, and resulted in us doing a hard restart.  As a consequence of this on restart we could not get zimbra MTA to start, the problem being that postfix thought it was already running.  The solution for anyone who finds this is  as follows, pasted to gether from...
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I’m an apprentice Open Sourcerer

Posted by Adrian on Oct 5, 2009 in business, Open Source | 2 comments One of the UK’s leading bloggers on open source software, Alan Lord (aka the Open Sourcerer) got me thinking some time ago about growing chilli plants.  Alan has just posted pictures of his 2009 chilli crop, and so I think its only fair that I post mine.  Not quite as impressive, but then again most of my conservatory was taken over with monster tomato plants this summer!  Next year I...
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