This is gonna get worse before it gets better..

[theducks]

During
Originally uploaded by theducks

This was my (and frenchiephish and non-LJ using co-worker)'s day. You can see my leg in the left of this photo plodding away at a serial console to the switches.

We got in at 10ish, started unpatching everything, then untangled everything. We all went to lunch between 12:30 and 1:30, and then I piked out at 5:30ish, when most of it was plugged in and up and going.

Yes, this is the hard way, but we needed to move some switches to install a redundant core for this building, and if we were going to that, we may as well make it neat, because, you know, we're Arts. Click the link to check out the before and after photos too.

I also left in the middle to answer a request to buy an iMac for my grandma ($1250 from Digilife Mt Hawthorne for 20 inch/2ghz/1Gb/250Gb!), which we're setting up tomorrow (and she is paying me back for it, I'm not /that/ nice).

Comments

[tevriel.livejournal.com]

The crazy thing is, I remember seeing similar photos from Toby back in the day when he and others rewired pretty much the whole building, and they spent hours and hours carefully tying everything up to be neat for the next time.

Clearly, cables defeat all efforts to keep them organised.

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, 3 or 4 years is about the limit on network cable tidyness.

[erikarn.livejournal.com]

All cabling systems evolve to just patch the damned cables in a near order 1:1 from port to switch port / PABX port. They then evolve to never -ever- be repatched again - the messiness should be hidden away in managed software, not cable hell.

It takes a while to get to this state. :)

[(Anonymous)]

"From the guy in the photo"

It was worth it after all that

[japester.livejournal.com]

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