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Messy network pics: be glad your network doesn't look like this
fresh99.com — I'd hate to be the guy made to do some of these cleanups.
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- SpicyChronos, on 10/12/2007, -51/+7aww crap, local firewall blocking site. anyone have a mirror site that's work friendly?
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -29/+3My school uses a filterting service they enabled the middle of last year. It blocks pretty much everything I would need to use the internet for (I need access to email and ftp, but other sites such as ebay are also very useful). I hate having to put up with it so much that I will be paying $60 per month for Verizon EVDO next year on my new X60s with built in WWAN. Damn them for costing me all this money. I could have easily gotten another year out of my T43, but I cant stand having a PCMCIA card sticking out.
PS Sorry for the tangent.
On the topic:
...And I though under *my* desk was bad. - PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -21/+1cant tunnel into your home PC?
i would feel safer tunneling especially when going to sites they purposely blocked. - msbeckman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+59this setup must not even connect to the internet... i dont see any tubes.
- EricTheGrey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9You can try here:
http://www.sysadminday.com/gallery.html
This site has most of the same pictures, if not all of them.
EtG - Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I would seriously consider burning the whole mess of wires. Hell, you could probably get insurance money on it if you played your cards right :p
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -29/+3My school uses a filterting service they enabled the middle of last year. It blocks pretty much everything I would need to use the internet for (I need access to email and ftp, but other sites such as ebay are also very useful). I hate having to put up with it so much that I will be paying $60 per month for Verizon EVDO next year on my new X60s with built in WWAN. Damn them for costing me all this money. I could have easily gotten another year out of my T43, but I cant stand having a PCMCIA card sticking out.
- crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -5/+47their way of sticking it to the man
- rboyce, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58But... you ARE the man.
So you're sticking it to yourself? - mvdde, on 10/12/2007, -5/+38maybe.
- rboyce, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58But... you ARE the man.
- Talphin, on 10/12/2007, -15/+5heh some of those pics kinda remind me of my 2 desktop pc network... lol I need to take a course in cable organizing. :P
- unknamed, on 10/12/2007, -5/+72So thaaaaat's where my internet went......... ohh, and look, some of the tubes are leaking water.
- zybch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+92OMG!!, thats not water, its the internet leaking out!!
No wonder it took Ted Stevens so long to receive it.
- Jeff76, on 10/12/2007, -27/+3sorry didn't know that site was firewall blocking... proxy it maybe?
- orlyyarly, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16i'd rather not get fired.
- uncleLeo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30in my circuits textbook, there was a chapter devoted to educating people not to wire circuits (or i guess other input/output systems) in this kind of manner.
they called it a "bird's nest"- indicas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31My father calls it a "rat's nest" :)
- apache2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+86More properally labled....... Mongolian Cluster *****?
- vdubski, on 10/12/2007, -31/+4We call it spaghettied wires. For example:
Look at that mess of spagettied wires! - babelfishi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46This is a real-life example of using "goto" commands!
- ScottDaMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+96Wait, so if I am a networking specialist and I want to keep my job, all I have to do is make this birds nest a reality and nobody can fire me? Hmm, since Im the only one that can detangle the mess, it allows for great job security.
I also like the networking cables in water. Wanna fire me? FRY BITCHES.......... LOL- atomicbomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32You may get job security, but you'll also never get promoted, you'd be to valuable with your nest to be moved..
- Software2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20No, because all the company has to do is hire an intern or some other such person to spend a month or two fixing it. You can still get fired.
I know, because I've detangled a mess worse than this. - jadedknight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@Software2
You ruined the fun! - doppler00, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6If it was me managing the IT department I'd give them 2 weeks to re-organize and clean up the cables or else....
I mean come on, cable management is not difficult people! - kenwould, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just because you think you're the only one that can figure something out or you're the only one who currently knows how to do something doesn't give you job security. I had a company send me to $25,000 worth of training and was the only one to know how to program a proprietary telecom switch... 3 months later I was layed off due to budget cuts. They'll just hire some 18 yo kid to unplug all those wires and do it properly :)
- da5idblacksun, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Yeah I work in IT at a large software company and we've had some "rats nest" closets like that.
It's a bitch to fix it. - Th3_anOmoLy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18At the point of those pics you're just better off starting over. You'll be able to correctly document every piece of the network while you're building it from the ground up.... and you'll still save time!
- aelias, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7No doubt. I saw all those pictures and said "What's the problem? Just unplug it all, get a ton of pre-bundled cables and go nuts."
I wonder if Cisco routers have an EZ-Setup button on the front. - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21"Hmm, since Im the only one that can detangle the mess, it allows for great job security."
Are you kidding? They'll hire an intern for $8/hr and make him work weekends. - eelsid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5When I was an intern in the late 90's this is exactly what I did. Cleaned up a mess almost but not quite as bad as this. All I know is I wouldn't be sticking my fingers in that water if I was that guy, who knows what kind of shorted-out-redundant-high-voltage current could be leaking (no pun intended) into that pool!
- aelias, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7No doubt. I saw all those pictures and said "What's the problem? Just unplug it all, get a ton of pre-bundled cables and go nuts."
- sautegod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+89I think I'm going to need more Zip-Ties
- Th3_anOmoLy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11priceless... I saw this comment ten minutes ago and I'm still lmao
- UmberGryphon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I think we're going to need a bigger boat
- blackb0x, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14dude, fsck zip ties. Get velcro.
- BlogJones, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Forget Velcro and Zip-ties. Get WiFi.
- joseph93, on 10/12/2007, -3/+65i'm no IT expert, but I think putting wires in water, is sorta a bad idea
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I know the installers on that one: It was Katrina Networks LLC
/Sarcasm - atomicbomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+70lol, maybe they are overclocking the wires, and are going for the water cooled option :P
- xeeton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16They are waterproof.
- UserAgent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Reminds me of when the CS building here flooded after a water main burst:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help/flood/flood.html
It looks like it might actually be a picture from that building. - Software2, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4"I know the installers on that one: It was Katrina Networks LLC
/Sarcasm"
Sarcasm? How is that sarcasm? So you're saying it WASN'T Katrina? - sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Yeah, its flooding since I dont think we have too many Scuba diving networking guys. Plus why would you have anything flooded on purpose?
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18@sapo916
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke - yosempai, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3@Namco
Thank you. Someone needed to say that. - fixinor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Geez, I thought CMU defineteley had money to build a decent server room, what kind of cobbled together POS hardware is that they have running there? I've seen better server rooms in 50-person companies ffs.
- sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@Namco
Idiot
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I know the installers on that one: It was Katrina Networks LLC
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -15/+5Looks like those last guys had their firewall flare up.
- vandread, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10their firewall obviously didn't work.
- sigmaman2, on 10/12/2007, -10/+6So...
A user enters the data center, looking for "internet".
He sees all the "internet" cables just dangling around, so he disconnects one and begins to take it back to his desk.
Later on, he hears reports about problems with the "firewall", and he wants to help out.
So, he dumps a bucket of water over the firewall/switches.
They all spark and burst into flames, so he runs to the waterhose out in the hall.
He then douses the entire data center with water, leaving a 4-inch puddle under the raised floor.
There. That should explain all the pictures you see!
- brinkness, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21The tangle isn't the worst part. The worst part is when it's tangled and not labeled.
- dfunct, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9its even more fun when its tangled, not labeled and not all the network ports in the building are mapped/known of, I spent days looking for network points in a building before
- stuffhappens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I once went to a site to debug some weird networking problems and was faced with a rats nest similar to some of the pics. We decided there was nothing but to slowly unpick the mess, document the connections and remake everything. Turns out that things had got so out of hand that some of the hubs (not switches) were linked back to themselves through intermediate kit and this was causing some real packet funnies.
Took us a whole day to sort out the patching.
I also went on site once and discovered that the under-floor void was 4ft instead of 4 inches because the builders had got the plans wrong! The company owning the room had a group of servers and other stuff under the floor as a second level to their computer room!
- bluetagpizza, on 10/12/2007, -10/+6*Shakes uncontrollably as cold shivers run down spine*
- jasncab, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5SFW:
http://www.duggmirror.com/hardware/Messy_network_pics_be_glad_your_network_doesn_t_look_like_this/ - bewareofcabbage, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I sure as heck wouldn't be putting my fingers in the water under the raised floor, sure it was to show the water was there for the photo... but those electrical outlets look very close to the ground lol...
- otomo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Pretty sure they cut the power before they did any work inside the data center. If it wasn't out already.
- bewareofcabbage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Maybe, but still!
- kkl3218, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's what I was thinking too. I would worry about the in-line UPS if they had one.
- INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3Jesus Christ! I mean Jesus! :O
- alexandria1016, on 10/12/2007, -16/+6And the neck bone is connected to the shoulder bone, and the shoulder bone is connected to...
- ilselu1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4/me was waiting for the snake in fan picture...
- roguedragon, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Oh...my...gawd. Even at my worst I never...EVER...let my noc EVER get that bad. Wow. Dude even has a problem with standing water. WTF. o_0;;
- greekgoat91, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22whoever constructed this should burn in the fiery depths of tech hell.
- Strangers, on 10/12/2007, -16/+5[offtopic]Am I the only one able to digg stories indefinately?[/offtopic]
- MrRockabilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Aren't these off the sysadmin appreciation day website: http://www.sysadminday.com/horrors.html
- Quakes, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Shame on the tiny pics.
- affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Their big pictures just resized in HTML right-click and view image(in firefox) the bigger picture will show
- Quakes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@affanjam
Thanks, I didn't realize anyone would be lazy enough to actually resize pictures using the img tag in this day and age. - cogen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@MrRockabilly
You're correct... And the submitter of this story has only submitted things from the Fresh99 site. So... stolen content and a spammer?
- Helicobacter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Seems like a series of tubes
- dspR, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Oh no! It's a tentacle monster!
- TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1heh check out Fresh99.com looks like a wannabe fark...at least be original
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5First thing we learned in computer tech was how to organize wires etc.
- tehgooch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Learned AND forgotten.
- smartydebater, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Looks like they didn't discover wireless networks yet...
- oakj423, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6they're called servers
- chintk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22It reminds me of the server room at work...I've had the urge to walk in there, unplug about a dozen cables, and run like hell.
- matthewsr2000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4even better, get out a pocket knife and start sliceing wires in two at random points. extra points for not cutting it all the way through, so it might work one second, and not the next. . .
- DesolataX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Its a common known fact, but if you took all the wires from that network, you could make a lasso and lasso the sun.
- Foo667, on 10/12/2007, -0/+103Allow me to top that:
http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=redecrescendo0gihm5.jpg- vandread, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18holly crap... I haven't seen something like that since I saw the neighbors bale hay
- tonyhartfield, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20we have a winner
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10My mouth literally dropped open...
- affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I feel sorry for the guy who takes care of that, my dad is in networking he like to keep it clean.
- LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Hahaha, we have a winner. This can't possibly be true, though. That's a cable wall.
- Hooj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10So that's where the internet comes from...
- warox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5vader voice: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2My heart stopped look at that. WTF?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Thats not true, Thats impossible!
- Magistrate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Bu... Wha... Wh... Hu... GOD DAMN!! That's UNPOSSIBLE!
- arusso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Haha... You'd think they would clean it up, but maybe they haven't heard of zip-ties or pvc piping...
- theBrink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Holy ***** I can't fathom how that could have occured... Please someone enlighten me if possible. Thanks.
- cazbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That is the perfect desktop background image.
- esalonia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1that cant be real
- eelsid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The sad thing about that picture is it looked like at least at one point (before the darkness overtook them) that they were attempting to use the cable management! The brackets aren't even full and they started going outside them, and it spiraled out of control. I still don't understand though how one could get that kind of port density to require all those cables....
- BluSkreenOfDeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't see a problem here. A little weed killer...some years of darkness...your MOSS problem should clear up...in ohhhh..I'd say...the first FIRE!
- goggleBOX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah lets see your $8/hr intern fix that up during weekends! This guy's got a job for life because anyone seeing that would rather shoot themselves than fix it.
- brinkness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude, how is that even practical or necessary? Does each server have two heartbeat lines to each other server?
- pyr0x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh my god...these are horrible! Great post. My network is beautiful compared to these...
- TwinkieTheKid, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Networks-20060731 here's some more.
- JamieThompson90, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Bloody hell I thought my attmpt at way wasbad ( I did a lan hookup a while back)
@Foo667 Holy crap thats Insane. - scottmoss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Most of those pictures are all very old! But...... still good yucks.
- PhilM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21I don't know about anyone else but I think I'd actually get a strange satisfaction from detangling, cleaning and re-patching some of those messes in a nice neat and tidy way.
Now if only I felt the same way about my room.- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9You sick, sick man.
- Fedge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I have the same morbid curiousity . . .
- Micrll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2same here, pay me $10 an hour and leave me alone and it would be an intersting task. Be something to say that you have done.
- superdrea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The best part is that at the old place I used to work, people would hire our technicians to come out, and pay them $85/hr to clean up stuff like that. They loved it, because they could just tune out, and follow the cables.
- eboskie1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I work for a cable company as a dncs/vod tech. If i let our headend get that bad with cabling I would be fired on the spot and replaced within a week. lol.
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"The next to last pic is of the part of the network im in charge of"..... Wouldn't that suck.... boss finds out that not how all networks look and makes you work minimun wage for months to get it pretty
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I think the sign stating "DO NOT TOUCH ANY OF THESE WIRES" in one of the pictures is the best warning. Probably just because the last time someone touched one and it came out, they never did find where it came from.
- buadach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or from the last photo: "......all under control but just don't touch the yellow one!"
- Squip, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0someone should really expalin to this guy what wireless means and how he could benefit from it! if one of those babies came out, how would you know where to put it back??
- Xeppo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Wireless doesn't work well in a corporate setting. You're stuck using wires. It's an unfortunate fact of life.
- rusty_g, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1HOLY CRAP!!!!
- Arnold22, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Damn, I got pissed when I had to reorganize a soundboard with like 15 wires. That would suck.
- FelixdaaHack, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5"I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night"
- dupswapdrop, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Ok you place one cable in your mouth, grab the next cable you see with your hand and then stand in the water.
Let me know if was as good for you as it was for my boss. - pingclouding, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1it looks like a mechanic's light is hanging on one of the cables.
- pingclouding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and then you see the racks were caught on fire. lol
- ngfkjiohodns, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Some of those look familiar....
- CableGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's nothing compared to some of the Lowe's and Wal-Marts that I've been in.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You'd need a weed whacker to get anywhere near the equipment.
- ylikone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3So, this is the famous "internet is made out of a series of tubes" that I keep hearing about?
- crazymofo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I work for a school system and some of our idf and mdf 's do look like that its sadd..
And Ylikone thats where them tubes are found they can be tricky some times so you have to really pay attension - dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6HE WAS RIGHT! IT IS A SERIES OF TUBES!
- kayjay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1classic: " please do not touch any of these wires". roflmao
on the second look it seems as if the technology came alive... reminds my of any random --CYBER-- movie. -
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