Posts by john wayne 5 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2023
Apple is the reason validity was reduced down to 1 year, and why everyone had to bend to Apple's decision lest their users with apple devices couldnt browse their websites anymore. Nothing like the thought of lost revenue to make commerce suck it up and just accept it. Principles are fine in principle, but in reality nobody could take the risk of losing income from their fruity customers
Similar, but larger scale version from our network manager, when replacing a switch or stack of switches, having spare patch panels with the same number of ports as the switches means you can transpose them off the switch into the panels for safe keeping then replace them in the new switches confident you know which ones go where
About 20 years ago, Scottish NHS, medium sized hospital, working in IT support. The medical records people needed a single computer in the sub-basement casenote filing room, 2 floors below the rest of civilisation. Proper "official" cabling install quote was choked on by Finance, so i decided to just run a very long patch lead from the closest node cabinet, after hours. It went from the node cabinet behind switchboard, into the suspended ceiling (yes, those horrible tiles, but my do they hide a multitude of sins) , across the switchboard office suspended ceiling, into the main services riser, down two floors, then out of the riser , into the corridor, and along some conveniently placed ceiling mounted cable tray, and into the back corner of the filing room. Then round the wall, and finally stopping at the desk with the newly installed computer. Crimped both ends with RJ45 connectors, and plugged it in, job's a good un. Total cable length was only about 60m from switch to PC, worked perfectly for another 12 years (and 2 replacement/upgraded PCs) until they closed the filing room when they microfiched the older records then destroyed them. Those were the days when we had the freedom to do custom cabling jobs, and run cables up into the roofspace, cover some ground, then drop back down in a room which previously had no networking. Nothing like that goes on nowadays (nothing im going to admit to), and the cabling contractors all make good money retro cabling all the offices which no-one ever thought would need computers or cabling in the 1990's. Icon because as the freedom to JFDI began to erode, the bosses always wanted things done "the right way", even if it cost money.
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