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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.

Who dugg this? Made popular Aug 3, 2006

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  • Foo667, on 10/12/2007, -0/+103Allow me to top that:
    http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=redecrescendo0gihm5.jpg
  • 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
  • inactive, 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.
  • sautegod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+89I think I'm going to need more Zip-Ties
  • apache2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+86More properally labled....... Mongolian Cluster *****?
  • atomicbomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+70lol, maybe they are overclocking the wires, and are going for the water cooled option :P
  • unknamed, on 10/12/2007, -5/+72So thaaaaat's where my internet went......... ohh, and look, some of the tubes are leaking water.
  • joseph93, on 10/12/2007, -3/+65i'm no IT expert, but I think putting wires in water, is sorta a bad idea
  • rboyce, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58But... you ARE the man.
    So you're sticking it to yourself?
  • msbeckman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+59this setup must not even connect to the internet... i dont see any tubes.
  • babelfishi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46This is a real-life example of using "goto" commands!
  • crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -5/+47their way of sticking it to the man
  • mvdde, on 10/12/2007, -5/+38maybe.
  • 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..
  • 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" :)
  • 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.
  • greekgoat91, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22whoever constructed this should burn in the fiery depths of tech hell.
  • 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.
  • tonyhartfield, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20we have a winner
  • 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.
  • brinkness, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21The tangle isn't the worst part. The worst part is when it's tangled and not labeled.
  • inactive, 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.
  • 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!
  • Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18@sapo916

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Aren't these off the sysadmin appreciation day website: http://www.sysadminday.com/horrors.html
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18holly crap... I haven't seen something like that since I saw the neighbors bale hay
  • xeeton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16They are waterproof.
  • rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I know the installers on that one: It was Katrina Networks LLC
    /Sarcasm
  • 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.
  • blackb0x, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14dude, fsck zip ties. Get velcro.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • UmberGryphon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I think we're going to need a bigger boat
  • orlyyarly, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16i'd rather not get fired.
  • Helicobacter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Seems like a series of tubes
  • Th3_anOmoLy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11priceless... I saw this comment ten minutes ago and I'm still lmao
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10their firewall obviously didn't work.
  • Hooj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10So that's where the internet comes from...
  • 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.
  • anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10My mouth literally dropped open...
  • BlogJones, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Forget Velcro and Zip-ties. Get WiFi.
  • tehgooch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Learned AND forgotten.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@Software2

    You ruined the fun!
  • 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
  • jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7if i were him, I would have never dipped my hand in that water. i hear it takes 50% of your HP, unless you are wearing an environmental suit
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9You sick, sick man.
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