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Re: Cable Colors

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Mon Jun 16 20:26:05 2008

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:09:42 -0700
Peter Wohlers <[email protected]> wrote:
 
> About 7% of the male population in the US has red-green
> colorblindness, so keep that in mind.

At least in my son's case, bright colors -- like the typical red and
green cables -- are easily distinguishable.  Pastels are more of a
problem.  But for proper cabling, see
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1X6PM -- and make sure you read
the comments...



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb