Since your commute is killing your time, and your car (assuming you're not commuting on a train) - consider staying in a hotel near work with a workout room a few times a week. You basically save your commute from and to work, giving you 3 hours back with which to workout, and with the savings to wear and tear on your car, and the gas used, it'll at least subsidize the hotel stays. Canceling an existing gym membership might also drop the total cost to where so many hotel stays a month becomes a monetary wash. Anyway, with working so many hours, you can probably afford to spend a bit on fitness.
Sounds like the school is taking advantage of pre-existing TwinAx wiring. TwinAx was very common for attaching IBM 3270/5250/etc dumb-terms to IBM AS/400, System 36, and other very expensive somewhat older IBM systems.
A common implementation of the "BALenced UNbalenced" connector would be as such;
AS/400 has a TwinAx concentator connected to it, this would facilitate 8 TwinAx devices using the hard to work with TwinAx cable with is about 2cm thick and can't be bent more than 90-deg./20cm. Clue-enabled Network/Sys. Admins decide not to suffer under the oppression that is TwinAx and slap some BALUNs on the concentrator and then run CAT5 (or even CAT3) through the ceiling to the host. On the host end, another BALUN adapts the CAT5 back to TwinAx and connects the Dumb Term or, more likely, the ancient IBM highspeed line printer that was printing greenbar 3 AS/400's ago.
As for your school's implementation it could be as simeple as re-using existing wiring, or could be a very well-thought-out way to overcome serious electrical interference (TwinAx only excels at two things these days, interference resistance, and flogging users.)
As far as connectors go, TwinAx was round (bad) but screwed-down once you got it's two leads in place (good).
Hell, I can't keep the e-mail! I'm trying to retain documents! Repair teh database - there went attachements since June! Use the IS/DS Consistency aAdjuster - whoops - restore a backup - Oh, that one s no good, go find one that works. ""Sorry everyone, the e-mail server's been rolled-back to last Wed night at 6:00 PM. Sorry for the trouble.""
I can't believe MS got in trouble for having e-mail retained too long, they must be using AS/400's or *nix + Domino for e-mail.
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Since your commute is killing your time, and your car (assuming you're not commuting on a train) - consider staying in a hotel near work with a workout room a few times a week. You basically save your commute from and to work, giving you 3 hours back with which to workout, and with the savings to wear and tear on your car, and the gas used, it'll at least subsidize the hotel stays. Canceling an existing gym membership might also drop the total cost to where so many hotel stays a month becomes a monetary wash. Anyway, with working so many hours, you can probably afford to spend a bit on fitness.
Sounds like the school is taking advantage of pre-existing TwinAx wiring. TwinAx was very common for attaching IBM 3270/5250/etc dumb-terms to IBM AS/400, System 36, and other very expensive somewhat older IBM systems.
A common implementation of the "BALenced UNbalenced" connector would be as such;
AS/400 has a TwinAx concentator connected to it, this would facilitate 8 TwinAx devices using the hard to work with TwinAx cable with is about 2cm thick and can't be bent more than 90-deg./20cm. Clue-enabled Network/Sys. Admins decide not to suffer under the oppression that is TwinAx and slap some BALUNs on the concentrator and then run CAT5 (or even CAT3) through the ceiling to the host. On the host end, another BALUN adapts the CAT5 back to TwinAx and connects the Dumb Term or, more likely, the ancient IBM highspeed line printer that was printing greenbar 3 AS/400's ago.
As for your school's implementation it could be as simeple as re-using existing wiring, or could be a very well-thought-out way to overcome serious electrical interference (TwinAx only excels at two things these days, interference resistance, and flogging users.)
As far as connectors go, TwinAx was round (bad) but screwed-down once you got it's two leads in place (good).
Hell, I can't keep the e-mail! I'm trying to retain documents! Repair teh database - there went attachements since June! Use the IS/DS Consistency aAdjuster - whoops - restore a backup - Oh, that one
s no good, go find one that works. ""Sorry everyone, the e-mail server's been rolled-back to last Wed night at 6:00 PM. Sorry for the trouble.""
I can't believe MS got in trouble for having e-mail retained too long, they must be using AS/400's or *nix + Domino for e-mail.
-Krus