Re: Monitoring my home netowrk

kev <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

Unfortunately people running round with vacuum cleaners and dusters have
a tendency to displace them if you do this.

Oh yes, that's a problem. Since day one in the computer biz, I've
made it a point to enforce my very own brand of "no wires on the
floor" rule. This is nothing new as I inherited it from the studio
sound business, where cables on the floor are a guaranteed invitation
to disaster. Same with test benches in engineering labs.

The enemy of cables on the floor is the rotary linoleum floor buffer.
This device was apparently designed specifically to grab any cables in
its path, and inflict the maximum amount of damage on whatever is
attached to the cable ends. I've seen chassis mounted BNC connectors
bent at an angle after being snared by a floor polisher. To insure
maximum damage, the floor polisher has no means of efficiently
stopping the rotating disk. In addition, the operators are encouraged
to polish in areas where they can't visually determine if there are
any cables.

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