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How a Wiring Rack Should Look
Julie Jacobson writes, "It's so much fun to deride some of the worst home wiring jobs in existence. But once in awhile, we should salute some of the cleanest, most perfectly labeled cabling jobs in U.S. homes. At the recent CEDIA Expo, the association for home-technology integrators handed out awards for the Best Dressed Systems, each featuring miles of cable, hundreds of connectors, tons of steel, and a clean aesthetic that could make the most finicky designer swoon. Show them to your own installer for inspiration."
Found an old picture of one of the messiest racks I have ever seen. Personally I think a messy NOC should be a punishable offense. I can't tell you how many times some stupid blip in the system is caused by a dangling wire with so much other wiring hanging on it that it gets pulled from the panel. Nothing like a 4am pager going off, coming into work and finding the root cause of the problem is the idiots that wired the rack. Kudos to those who do it right.
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"Also, the editor put an incorrect link in."
Guess he got his wires crossed ...
That's precisely why it got slashdotted. The site was linked TWICE. It didn't only get slashdotted - it got double-slashdotted!
I'd like to be a judge on that panel. I'd love to give out awards for the best rack.
What? Wiring? What are you talking about? Oh...
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While viewing the article, my wife overheard me saying, "Ooh, nice rack on that one.
Warning: The intelligence of this post may be larger than it appears.
This is the kind of 'nice rack' that Slashdot readers are interested in. _
Because I actually used "begs the question" in its proper meaning, i.e. a circular argument. The post I responded to asked whether Linksys wireless routers would work inside a metal box; this begs the question (assumes without evidence) that the Linksys wireless router works at all.
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...Can one create a duplicate within the same submission.
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... I feel I am the worst wiring technician on the planet. All I have to do is look at a cable to get it tangled!
when the article is asking us to go look at some nice racks?
We had that situation. One of our managers had set up a rack and he had gone through and cable tied everything down just so. The rack didn't need to be changed very often but finally there was a day when something needed to be replaced. One of the sys admins who worked for him (who was a close friend with him) walked over to his desk after she had fixed things and dropped a double handful of cut-off cable ties onto it.
Maybe he works for monster cable writing all their scientific marketing BS.
"I forgot my mantra."
Yikes. The admin for that place must be screaming each time he sees a plate of pasta!
:)
I just imagine the face on the guy who just gets hired to maintain a place like this
PHB : And this is our server racks
New guy : Aeeeeiiiiii! (jumps out the window)
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Made from the freshest electrons.
I suppose you could use them to tie yourself to your chair and therefore not trip over stuff.
(no I don't know either how they could help)
OTOH there are some U shaped nails that are wide enough for CAT5 cabling. I've used those before.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
I spent some time working at a UK Gov site - their patching was so bad that when we were due to tidy it all up - they sent one of their Health and Safety bods down to look at the working environment and he dictated that no 1 person was to be in the room on their own at any 1 time.. at all points there had to be 2 of us in there... not sure if it was because of the danger of electricution (which was high) or the fact that you could get tangled up in the cat5 and never escape.
What would be the fun in trying to locate a cable in one of those perfectly tied, will-you-marry-me-now bundles? Where is the CHALLENGE, the spirit of the techie?
I'm a comp.science person, so we don't do such mundane tasks, but for you lowly H/W freaks I suggest that cabling be done a little worse to make your miserable lives a little more interesting.
To diffuse the bomb, cut the yellow wire.
You want fun, go home and buy a monkey!
Yeah. If only there were some magical technology that could notice that the induced EMF is in the same phase on the two legs, and with some sort of amplifier, find a differential signal that would remove it.
If I ever invent one, I'll call it a magic-signal-sorter.
By all that is holy, you have found him!
The Flying Spaghetti Monster!
I prefer my bombs to be in focus when working on them, thank you.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.