• Smallletter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This makes me wonder, who else here isn’t actually a programmer but an IT professional who appreciates the content?

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      I dabble in both. These cables are nowhere near messed up enough to count as cable gore. I saw a rack where someone decided that the VOIP switches didn’t need port maps so every time they moved a phone around (don’t ask me why they didn’t just fix it in the config) they would just run a new patch cable from the port on the switch to the new port on the patch panel. Rinse and repeat for about 5 years and the rats nest of yellow cabling was a beauty to behold.

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      I’m neither, but I do have a very small homelab. I get to imagine the spaghetti mess of cables in my virtualized system.

  • BeigeAgenda
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    1 year ago

    Your kids will love crimping their own patch cables.

    RJ45A, RJ45B, Crossover gives endless possibilities and hours of fun.

    And for the older kids there’s VLANs and BGP.

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    I’ve seen this one before, and it’s still great. But I wonder who those models are. Do they know they’re an internet meme?

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    The truth is I would buy it…

    I’ve been following cableporn for a very long time and I still don’t really know why things I set up as they are. I have intricate knowledge of the software side of things but hardware is alien to me. By playing around with it as a game I’d finally grasp the concepts.