On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 08:46:49 EDT, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> said:
Everyone running their cable wherever they want with no controls, and abandoning it all in place makes a huge mess, and is one way to think about it.
While clearing out the space that eventually ended up being repurposed for a supercomputer, we encountered a small run of Ethernet Classic - the thickwire stuff. We never did figure out how or why it got there (I doubt that anybody stashed it down there just for storage stretched straight out, with 3 vampire taps still attached), as the location in question was still cow pasture when we decided that all new cable would be thinwire (and we certainly had plenty of THAT under the floor, buried under all the cat-5...) And we're a small enough shop with low enough personnel turnover that rounding up *all* the possible co-conspirators and getting somebody to admit "Ahh... now there's a story attached to that wire..." usually doesn't take more than 3 or 4 pitchers of Guinness... ;) Which almost begs the question - what's the oddest "WTF??" anybody's willing to admit finding under a raised floor, or up in a ceiling or cable chase or similar location? (Feel free to change names to protect the guilty if need be....:)