A lamp has a base and a light-transmitting soft-glass lamp envelope sealed to the base to form a sealed lamp cavity which is filled with a non-oxidizing gas. The system also includes a console coupled to the computer system for accepting logical partition configuration data input by an operator. By aggregating media content from plural sources and providing a unified listing of the available media content from these multiple sources on the client device, a user can view all available media content at a single location, without making multiple connections to multiple different sources. A pattern can then be formed in a photolithographic process using the phase-edge effect. The sacrificial layer is removed to form a smooth walled capillary in the substrate.