Ahh, a reminder of days gone by...

[neferde.livejournal.com]

About three years ago I had a roommate in the dorm who'd just gotten a new laptop but didn't have a long enough ethernet cable to reach from the jack (conveniently located directly above the in-room sink of all places) to her immovable desk. So, being a do-it-yourself farmgirl, she found two ethernet cables, one blue from a friend, one yellow from the garbage, and proceeded to do as she always did at home when the electrical cables weren't long enough... She spliced them. And then wrapped the connection in bright shiny silver duct tape. I still feel sorry for the techs who kept coming in every week to examine her computer to try and figure out why it was repeatedly crashing the entire dorm network with what they were calling "bounce-back". They never did find anything wrong with her computer... but every one of them stepped over that pretty blue/silver/yellow splice!

I still have that multicolored cable as a reminder when I'm doing tech support that sometimes it's really not the user or the computer that's the problem, it's the little things that get taken for granted and overlooked. Of course it's also useful for playing pranks on unsuspecting network techie friends too since it has yet to meet a network it can't cause major problems on!

Comments

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

great... *G*
lotsa work for lotsa people for nothing :)

[krrayn.livejournal.com]

that thing should be classified as a dangerous weapon :)

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Oh that's evil!

At least it wasn't one of these:

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Re: At least it wasn't one of these:

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: At least it wasn't one of these:

[dysan27.livejournal.com]

Hilarious, the only place I've heard of that is BOFH

Where did you find that picture?

Re: At least it wasn't one of these:

[jecook]

Whoo Hoo! An Ether Killer! The only thing that's missing is the cheap 24 hour timer....

I would like to add that the box of RJ45 ends that I just purchases are CAS rated for 115VAC at 1.5 amps. ::snicker::

Re: At least it wasn't one of these:

[jjjiii]

Ah, a PoE cable!

[dysan27.livejournal.com]

Using that cable on other people's networks? Ohhh what did they do to piss you off?

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Back in the days of thinnet, we had a heck of a time figuring out why we couldn't get a reliable signal from one room to the other. We tried switching cables, switching tees, taking machines off... It wasn't until much later that we realized that we had one of the tees resting on the concrete floor... which was just conductive enough to ground it out.

[snoopyh42.livejournal.com]

The ethernet cable of DOOM!!!