Re: Monitoring my home netowrk

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
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.

At one of the places I worked floor polishers were banned. We used to have the floors "polished" but H&S decided it was a hazard and a water based system had to be used, however water and electronics do not mix so this was also banned and only vacuum cleaners and anti-static dusters were used. Most of the cables were in trunking but we used to have some calibrated cables, for microwave testing on some mobile rigs, and these had a tendency to droop on the floor and we used to get the occasional end knocked off( at a few hundred pounds a cable I was glad I wasn't paying) and due to the rigs not being static there was little to be done. The other problem with mobile test rigs is that people try to move them without disconnecting all the cables, annoyingly this mainly seemed to occur during the middle of the night.
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