How *not* to wire networks

[kengr]

http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=6435

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[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. They've failed my minimum standard.

If somebody has a job that I wouldn't hire myself to do, and does it worse than I would have, that's below my minimum.

[kengr]

Actually the scariest one is that real professional setup with the low row of racks, with *hundreds* of cables run in a relatively neat manner. But all yellow and no indication of any sort of labeling.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I know enough to do something to ID the cables. I learned that from Computer Stupidities, where the guy setting up the network used knots. There's better ways to do it, but it's useful info.

[maxstories.livejournal.com]

Jeez... rats nesting in server racks was just the best ever.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to save some of these for use in a game...

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Seems a natural for a cyberpunk game. "We need to jack in at the right point in the hardware" (Scatters pictures) "Have fun!'

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kengr]

Traveller PCs get an old ship from a patron to do a job with. And then there's a system failure and they go to investigate...

There are a few pics that'd work well.

Or that rooftop (indoor!) router is where they gotta tap into the bad guys' network. :-)