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Well, this one time, at band-camp .... Blake Pfankuch wrote: > One of my clients has their 34U cabinet under the stairs of the main > entrance to the facility. Mind you wood plank stairs, trafficked by > hundreds if not thousands of people a day. Over the top of the cabinet > hangs an extra long shower curtain, at an angle so that all water or mud > that falls through the wood slats actually drips down the "shower > curtain" and then runs down the drain, 3 feet away, to the sewer system. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Warren Kumari > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:56 AM > To: Leigh Porter > Cc: Patrick Muldoon; Vinny Abello; [email protected] > Subject: Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know > where it went? > > > One of the places where I worked had a bunch of networking gear and > around 12x1U servers all squeezed into a shower stall.... There was a > cardboard sign hanging from the faucet saying "WARNING!!! Do not turn > on" > > W > > > > On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: > > >> We used to have a POP under somebodys stairs in Bristol in the UK and >> another POP in the loft of a friend of one of the employees. They sold >> their house and the POP stayed there and the new owners knew nothing >> about it, imagine their surprise when a telco engineer turned up >> wanting >> to fix a fibre fault ;-) >> >> -- >> Leigh >> >> >> Patrick Muldoon wrote: >> >>> On Sep 10, 2007, at 12:34 AM, Vinny Abello wrote: >>> >>> >>>> One of the stranger things a field tech of ours encountered wasn't >>>> necessarily bad wiring (although it's not great), but the fact that >>>> the demarc was located next to the toilet in the bathroom. >>>> Naturally, >>>> the constant humidity caused bad corrosion problems and other issues >>>> with their telco services. :) So as a general rule of thumb, avoid >>>> putting your telco and/or network gear next to the crapper or the >>>> services the equipment is meant to provide might also stink >>>> >>> I know of one ISP that had their local POP in a small rural town, >>> the >>> bathroom of a local store, sitting on a shelf in rather close >>> proximity to the sink (Sorry don't have pictures). So Router, modem >>> bank and a couple T1's. The kicker was they had it all plugged into >>> an extension cord that ran to another part of a back room. More >>> than >>> 1 time we (as the local telco) had to go out there cause they where >>> certain it was a problem with the Ts, When in fact someone had either >>> tripped over the power cord or unplugged it somehow. >>> >>> -Patrick >>> >>> -- >>> Patrick Muldoon >>> Network/Software Engineer >>> INOC (http://www.inoc.net) >>> PGPKEY (http://www.inoc.net/~doon) >>> Key ID: 0x370D752C >>> >>> NOTICE: alloc: /dev/null: filesystem full >>>
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