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Here's some nice lacing on our FLM150 rack: http://fiveforty.net/mux/Picture_010.jpg http://fiveforty.net/mux/Picture_013.jpg On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:30:06PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > Hey all, > > This seems a wee bit off topic, but definitely relates to network > operations (somewhere below layer 1) and I can't think of a better place > to ask. > > Upon leaving a router at telx and asking one of their techs to plug in the > equipment for me, I came back to find all my cat5 cables neatly tied with > some sort of waxed twine, using an interesting looping knot pattern that > repeated every six inches or so using a single piece of string. For some > reason, I found this trick really cool. > > I have tried googling for the method, (it's apparently standard, I've seen > it in play elsewhere), and for the type of twine, but had little luck. I > was wondering if any of the gurus out there would care to share what this > knot-pattern is actually called, and/or if there's a (illustrated) howto > somewhere? > > -Dan "Tired of getting scratched up by jagged cable ties" Mahoney > > -- > > --------Dan Mahoney-------- > Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek > Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC > ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM > Site: http://www.gushi.org > ---------------------------
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