Nekonomicon - Tape Barcode Generators

hamei
Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 4:10 p.m.
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Wrote the following at April 20, 2013, 4:38 a.m...

http://www.axsotic.com/overview.html

Looks really interesting ... except I bet it would give you carpal tunnel in about an hour.

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pentium
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Wrote the following at April 20, 2013, 8:30 a.m...

I thought the Spaceball and The Monkey were bizarre modelling tools thut this thing takes the cake for me.

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robespierre
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Wrote the following at April 20, 2013, 8:55 a.m...

I'd hesitate to hop on this without some type of scientific HUI study... there are 6-degree devices that detect force, like the SpacePilot, and just from first principles a tool that doesn't move would seem to be more desirable.

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hamei
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Wrote the following at April 20, 2013, 6:35 p.m...

robespierre wrote:

I'd hesitate to hop on this without some type of scientific HUI study...

I bet you're right, this thing would not work well in the real world. Sure does look space-age though

Pentimum - the spaceball is very comfortable to use. If you come across one, grab it.

This thing :

http://www.robotmaker.eu/products-2/ircf360

might make a comfortable mouse replacement ... after using a spaceball, something more fluid than a mouse is appealing. I'd love to be able to go left right up down in out from a single device. Xsgi has the Xinput extensions, too. Hmm ....

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robespierre
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Wrote the following at April 23, 2013, 11:51 a.m...

I suppose the analogy is
Spaceball : "3D-Spheric-Mouse" :: IBM Pointing Stick : Trackball

force sensors should cause less RSI since the hand never needs to move. with rotation sensors, the ball can "keep spinning", which wouldn't appear to be useful.

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hamei
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Wrote the following at April 24, 2013, 2:32 a.m...

robespierre wrote:

force sensors should cause less RSI since the hand never needs to move. with rotation sensors, the ball can "keep spinning", which wouldn't appear to be useful.

I really like the spaceball - it's comfortable to use and doesn't have those fine-motor-control problems that mice and trackballs have. The SGI X-server supports the Xinput extension ... maybe fooling X into thinking a spaceball is a mouse would be a useful project ?

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pentium
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Wrote the following at May 5, 2013, 7:26 p.m...

Something about the tape I used isn't playing nice with the barcodes and my library is getting confused. I wanted to print off a new sheet.
Last time I used http://tapelabels.librelogiciel.com/ which have a simple config sheet and generated the sheets in pdf files but the site now redirects to http://www.mytapelabels.com/ which is an identical site however now generates useless watermarked pdf's unless you pay a hefty fee to get an API key.

Does anyone know of an alternate site? Ebay sells pre-printed sheets however they are equally expensive.

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PymbleSoftware
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Wrote the following at May 5, 2013, 8:24 p.m...

Make your own...

You can make barcodes with (La)TeX, and you can do it with your SGIs.

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... g-barcodes

Even QR codes..
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... d-barcodes

I've said it before and I'll say it again, (La)TeX rocks!

R.

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hamei
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Wrote the following at May 5, 2013, 8:37 p.m...

pentium wrote:

Does anyone know of an alternate site? Ebay sells pre-printed sheets however they are equally expensive.

I built a barcode generator for Irix. It's attached to some post somewhere. Sorry I can't find it to save my rosy red

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hamei
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Wrote the following at May 6, 2013, 6:57 a.m...

Found it, pent. Mips4 Irix. Type < barcode --help > for instructions. You should be able to figure it out ... ps2pdf will morph it to pdf, or there's an option to ouput as pcl if you can use that.

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Oh hell, fifty cents says you won't have ps2pdf either. Here ...

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