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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
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"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
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21 comments:
A small localized fire, confined to that equipment room, might be your best solution.
You could then rebuild it the way it should be.
Noooooo, that would be disaster. You're looking at the very heart of how my empoyer makes money. Pushing $10K a minute loss when it is down.
I will never bellyache about a poorly wired server cabinet again.
Wow, how did you get into my wiring closet?
That rack looks like it could use some serious cleaning up.
That said, it looks a lot like the wiring closet where I work. So I'll just stop short of throwing stones whilst living in a glass house. :)
"done blowed up" as in "was working and quit" or "done blowed up" as in "was working, changes made, now no worky?"
Good luck in any case.
May the Tron God smile upon you.
I WISH the stuff around here were as neat and organized as that...
Oh come on, Roberta! I've seen a lot worse than that. You have carefully-velcro'd cable ties for groups of related cables, everything looks pretty much sized to fit rather than leaving loops of extra cable all over the cabinet, clearly the cables are color-coded to indicate their purpose, and you have clear access to the whole thing once you take the door off the rack.
About the only thing you could ask for beyond what you've got are nicely printed labels on each cable and maybe a more stable place for the mysterious gray boxes.
reminds me of spaghetti lab back in Avionics Class A school...
I have seen worse. Still isn't fun to try to troubleshoot, but not the worst situation I've ever been in.
I've gotten a lot better about labels, cable ties, and organization since the one that broke me. The rat skeleton was the tipping point.
Cut the purple wire first...
Does the guy sound like Marlin Perkins? "We'll send Jim in for a closer look. While Jim deals with that python, let me tell you about..."
Been there. Sometimes the ultimate reward is longevity...
Jim R
But-- purple is SDI video!
Years ago someone tried to dump responsibility for a far worse wire tangle on me. I just indicated I would recable it with a chainsaw.
It's the cable on the left.
Seriously? First thing I'd do is make sure all the cables were seatedproperly. And I have certainly seen worse.
I've seen worse -- I have sorted out worse. The trouble is, my paycheck goes through that mess; it is online, 24/7. One untangles it at his or her peril.
The mysterious-gray-boxes (distribution amplifiers) are part of the present idiocy, done by an alleged tech who likes to dangle standalone devices from the cabled connected to them in the rats-nests of wires he creates. It will come as no surprise that he was also the last hold-out on using "clothespin" type strippers on coax, preferring to "trim by eye" and pocketknife. The SWR bump the resulting mess creates does disturbing things to high-speed serial video data and that's before the steady weight pulls the cable out of the poorly-crimped BNC connector.
Were I on the jury and saw that photo I'd vote for acquittal.
looks like it might be safe to cut the blue wire...
Rats nest comes to mind... sigh...
At least the wires are different colors!!!
The responsible authorities at my employer would reject at the loading dock any cabinet arriving in that condition from a vendor. Anyone found rubbing cables like that in an in-service cabinet would have their careers shot at dawn pour encourager les autres.
Slightly off topic, but I find out today that the FCC is apparently trying to get the incumbents to tighten up on the current 600 mHz band with the intention of auctioning the resulting available spectrum to, among others, cellular data... Sic transit gloria OTA TV. (can't find the post where I made my prediction concerning the impending transfer of spectrum from OTA TV to cellular)
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