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Obligatory xkcd: Christmas Plans
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Or…
Just print all the labels in the pack and use them for the next decade. No annual fiddling with the printer. No need to buy labels every couple of years.
No need to post a woe-is-me to the lounge.
The benefits are endless!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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That only works so long as everyone you send cards to lives for the next decade, you don't fall out with them, and they don't move house. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Your post made me look at the labels I've been using for a few years now. Yes, the same packet, stored in a desk drawer. I can't decipher the date stamp completely, it's either 16/04/13 or 16/04/18.
The box says "Multipurpose labels Laser/Inkjet/Copier", and I've used them in a laser printer (hp1600) and various inkjets without any problems at all. I can't imagine a copier being much different from a laser printer.
Unistat brand, "Made in Australia from imported material."
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We stopped sending cards years ago apart from to a few select people we never see
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I am not being funny or a wise A$$
I wrote two VB.Net apps your welcome to on GitHub
Reply and I will email link to my GitHub not sure of the address at present time
One is called Card Printer you can print on 8.5 by 11 Card Stock and Design and
Fold your own Cards
The other is called Label Machine prints address from SQLite on Avery 1" by 2 5/8" Labels
Yes I know you could write both these in a weekend BUT we all like to brag and share
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So wrote up an article and share with everybody!
Submit a new Article[^]
I just wrote up how to do it in word as a tip: Printing labels in Word[^] - that way I hopefully can do it easily next time, and others may as well.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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and yes I know I am speaking to the choir here. But I just have to vent.
so I am working in this system that is based upon data and everything I am sure is in SQL somewhere in the clouds. but am I allowed to connect with like SQL management studio or heck even some sort of command terminal? Nope! so no SQL select available. You HAVE to use their interface.
you have to select the whole table first and then you deselect the fields you dont want
then you can apply a where clause
it is all a stupid IDE with no way to write any freakin Code!
and yes I know THEY "think" and THEY "say" you don't need a tech to do this. But only a real tech can actually figure it out. So the no code is less than useless because you actually haven't eliminated a tech job. You have just made it harder.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I think of no-code as being in a big box hardware store, looking for a gadget, to do this thing that one is unable to communicate to the clerk. And you forgot the dimensions.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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It's turning code into configuration.
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this is exactly what they are trying to do.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Problem is, that it's not less work (as it's meant to be), just less flexible
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I assume you code exclusively in assembler, to preserve 'flexibility'?
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I prefer IBM System\360 Machine Language, entered via toggle switches, one for each bit.
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Bring back Colossus and the Manchester Baby, I say.
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"The Configurable System"
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...and less efficient in development and performance.
PowerBI and DAX are perfect examples.
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There is only one I like, and that's Synthmaker (now Flowstone) and it's more like low code in that you usually don't need code, but you can drop to ruby (and maybe psuedo asm with SSE type instructions if they still have that) and code modules with it. Most of it is dragging and dropping these nodes together and building sort of like "circuits" out of them.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Sounds like SSIS, but I "drop to" C#.
And easy enough to use SQL.
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I like only such systems which I have developed myself.
Even then, I can rarely remember how to use them.
modified 13-Dec-22 14:39pm.
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You did document them, right?
No? Well there you go....
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A simple readme file, plus example scripts.
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They have been claiming solutions like that work since at least the 80s.
They don't.
To be fair they try to approach other problems in the same way by applying generalizations to certain types of problems.
Comparable to building houses. They presume it is a tract house. They presume it will be built on an endless tract of land that represents a mathematical plane with an endless unchanging supply of the same materials and with no possible change in things like building codes, water supply etc.
It works as well as that.
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Reminds me of the report generator in CR, or the venerable BizTalk or any number of systems designed to move the coding to the power user, not just a waste of time by the bane of any developer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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