Christmas shutdown 2009

Posted by Adrian on Dec 18, 2009 in Labels | 0 comments We are now getting close to the end of 2009, which has seen Mercian Labels celebrate 40 years in business  – there arent many things to celebrate in this economic climate and this is one of them! We are still taking order for dispatch before Christmas, but will shutting down at 5pm Wednesday 23rd December and reopening at 9am on Monday 4th January 2010. Merry Christmas to all our readers,...
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The Label Event 2010 is cancelled

Posted by Adrian on Dec 18, 2009 in Labels | 0 comments Yesterday I found out that the LabelEvent 2010 that I previously blogged about has been cancelled due to lack of support.  This is a great shame as the format promised to be a novel and exciting one. However, the recession continues to bite deeper, and this event appears to have been a casualty of it.  I hope that the organisers try again in...
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Apple patents a new tamper evident security label

Posted by Adrian on Dec 14, 2009 in Labels, Security Labels | 1 comment Apple have applied for a patent for a new tamper evident security label that will detect if a device has been opened, thus voiding the manufacturer’s warranty.  This has attracted much comment from user groups, with a general acceptance that manufacturers need to protect their warranties, but it does stop people tinkering with their devices. Its an interesting, if not unsophisticated...
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Solution for Cowan Iaudio “read-only file system” error

Posted by Adrian on Dec 5, 2009 in Open Source | 0 comments I have been using a cowon iaudio iplayer for playing MP3s for some time now, as its the only small mp3 player I could find that mounted natively in linux without special software that needed to be run under WINE or similar. Today I had a problem whereby after a power cut where the unit was charging and the unmount had not been done “properly”, it refused to mount in any other way but...
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