Oh, we are sharing workplace cable management, ok, here's a place I used to work at:
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Here was my nightmare on the day some equipment died and we had to patch around it manually
Sounds like an origin story.
I’m not IT in any capacity than my own shit at home. Tackling this looks impossible.
You just need a machete and a strong wrist.
Just takes time, patience, and enough money to not care.
The solution to tackling it was to just not tackle it. See the various dangling cables where something was no longer needed and rather than removing the cable, screw it, it is lost to the entropy.
Not impossible. Just extremely tedious and time consuming.
Not cable management but I used to provide PCs for nonprofits at no charge and took hardware donations to keep it going. I received this donation, and it it was fully functional before I stripped it for parts:
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It's called security. Hackers can't tap into our data if they can't find the data cable!
Security through obscurity
Sir, words have meaning. This does not fit the definition of management
Wow it's the data center equivalent of developing country wiring.
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That cable management looks pretty clean tho
I got completely distracted by the solid cable management as well.
They have cable management rules to prevent chaos from happening, which will if given the opportunity
That's not a server rack, that's an SCP.
I've cleaned one of those out once. Went from 10base-T to 100base-T in the building.
Fuck I'm old
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I work with an organization that has a "cableman" who goes around and yanks unapproved or unlabeled Ethernet cables from very important server racks. He has complete immunity from any consequences of pulling said cable. If the cable was important, it should have been labelled.
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The laptop is updating on company's time . Drink some tea, blame Microsoft and call it a day.
Why are you using windows for what looks like important infrastructure work? 😬
May not be his/her choice.
How do you know when someone hates Windows? They'll tell you, myself included.
For sure. The 'you' was more a corporate you. Someone made this call.
'Them' is also a valid pronoun when you don't know or are unsure if gender!
Because bossman says use this machine which has windows installed.
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As everyone else has said, that’s clean as fuck.
I see ya’ll put the room numbers on the front of the patch panel instead of the cable labels. What kind of facility is this in if you don’t mind me asking? Is this a hospital?
I don't like Windows, but at the point where the laptop updates automatically hasn't it been bugging you about the update for hours or even days? I generally file complaints about bad update timings in the "fucked around and found out" folder
Honestly I don’t even remember, this was a long time ago, but if I recall the shitass Dell computer I was given had an SSD that repeatedly disconnected and required a forced reboot. Updates were managed automatically by the org so I don’t think I was ever prompted to update during my short time there. When I powered the shitter on Windows decided it was apparently a good time to update.
I mean, shouldn't you be able to refuse updates anyway ? Like if there is something you don't like or that will break your workflow in the update, shouldn't you be able to accept the risks and keep the old version indefinitely ?
Edit : a word was missing.
No, not on a business owned device. The updates should give warnings, of course. Some companies don’t seem to know how to supply those warnings before mandating the install, for some reason.
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nope. it can just come out of nowhere sometimes.
Not in the EU region lol
Still, though, I prefer an OS where I can fuck around in that regard and not find out.
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One time the computer restarted while I was trying to scan in emergency meds. I narrowly avoided flipping the workstation over in a blinding adrenaline fueled rage by having to go verify it manually with a coworker instead and just charted it later.
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Next job do it at a more appropriate time and you might keep the job
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That's some decent cabling
me installing some vapes
If I were in the middle of something and that laptop did that to me, it would now be a two piece laptop.
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