18 December, 2009, 7:28 am
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, and thanks to our many clients once again for their business during another successful year. We have a special offer planned for January 2010 – I’ll blog about this early in January so watch this space!
18 December, 2009, 7:12 am
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 future.
14 December, 2009, 7:29 am
new apple tamper evident security label
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 design compared to the technology we use for our Label Lock range of products and it will be interesting to see if Apple start a trend in using hidden tamper evident labels to detect unauthorised access. After all – who wants to destroy the famous design appeal of a an ipod !
Watch this space.
5 December, 2009, 6:45 pm
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 “read only”, and no amount of CHMOD 777 ing would solve it (see this post also). In the end I found the solution was simple but brutal.
- copy the SYSTEM directory to a different device over USB
- reformat using ubuntu linux system>adminitration>disk utility in FAT32
- copy the directory back and any files you want to listen to
- it then works.
Ok, you have to recopy all the files back again, and at 15GB capacity thats a few hours of USB transfer, but its the only way I could find.
USB mounting under linux just isnt as forgiving under linux as windows, as I’ve previously blogged abut, and thats a shame.
