A method for preparing aqueous furnish to be used in paper or paper board manufacturing. A portion of memory is allocated by a virtual machine monitor or an operating system to a new domain. The auditory or gestural feedback can be explicit or implicit. The method also includes modifying the plating bath andor the first plurality of plating conditions to provide a modified plating bath andor a second plurality of plating conditions. Novel methods for cutting a predetermined distance from an edge of a piece of sheet material using the guides of the present invention is also disclosed.