A moment for the geek in me.

[feren]

Let me tell you folks, I've worked in a lot of wiring closets and data centers over my career. This is a fine example of how not to run wiring.

Wires. Bring. Pain.

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[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

It... looks like something out of Akira!

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

Holy mother of fuck.

[feren.livejournal.com]

There's nothing holy about some of those pictures.

Nothing holy at all.

[feren.livejournal.com]

Oh great, now I'm going to spend the rest of my waking hours today thinking about that.

[frostyw.livejournal.com]

I could think of far worse. I won't say them for fear of being attacked later on IRC because of it. ;)

[mindslide.livejournal.com]

At my place of employment, if people actually did that here, they'd be fired quicker than fuck. O_O;;

[ronbar.livejournal.com]

Those pictures make me miss my old jobs; I used to do lots of cable-making, block-punching and patching. I was pretty good about managing fixed cables from the punch block to the patch panel-- that's something you do once and never change until you rip everything out. But all bets were off between the patch panel and the equipment.

There's something wonderfully satisfying about successfully tracing and threading a cable through a rat's nest. Neat bundles of cables cleanly branching out at each end are not only boring but tougher to trace end-to-end by tugging, especially if they're all so tightly strapped together with non-adjustable wire ties that they crimp the cables on the surface of the bundle. That kind of thing is usually the sign of a cable monkey who only does installations and never has to troubleshoot what he installs.

The best excuse for a rat's nest is that you don't have to worry about interceptable crosstalk. That's not really an issue anymore with UTP category 5 and 6, shielded cable, or fiber, but your boss might not know that.

[tetragon.livejournal.com]

This was at the old data centre for my current employer before we moved to new premesis.

Things are *much* better now. :)

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

Please tell me that's not a Bay Networks switch back there in the corner.