One day, you're all going to die.

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I am going to be 42 some time this week. As such, I propose a visit to The Pub™ — Pembury Tavern, Sunday 7pm until chucking-out. I understand many others will be there with the intention of celebrating their own lives, so it's only fair to give them the opportunity to celebrate mine too.

Today I performed athletics in the Spaghetti Shite Olympics. The name comes from the sobriquet one of the machine room guys gave the horrible temporary cabling I put into place ahead of a switch upgrade (100Mbit to 1Gbit). On Friday I was using crimpers at work! Well. A crimper. A cable crimper. It's not clear how in eight years' system administration I evaded making my own cables. But I'm good at it now! White/green, green, white/orange, blue, white/blue, orange, white/brown, brown. (check) Yep, remembered it right. This is burnt into my brain forever, or at least another week.

I trashed my boot sector aborting an install of WUBI, so I'm now recovering by installing an ancient Ubuntu 6.06. I'm writing this from the live CD. With Linux, you can LiveJournal while you install!

Comments

[pndc.livejournal.com]

I'll bet that colourblindness has something to do with it.

The cable colours are of course white/brown, light-brown, white/brown, blue, white/blue, shiny-brown, white/brown, dirty-brown. Handily, they wrap the three identical white/brown cores around the light-brown, shiny-brown and dirty-brown cores so I can identify them.

Amazingly, I've yet to make a cable that didn't work. I've had to remake quite a few cables done by people with full colour vision, mind.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, to be honest; I remember deciding to use 568B explicitly when I wired up my house in student days. It's possible, I suppose, that it was something as mundane as the wall plates I was using had the 568B colours printed on the PCB and 568A as a sticker to put over the top if you wanted the other aide memoire instead.

Strangely I'm the other way around with the colours -- I find I have to use the white/brown cores to tell the brown ones apart. I can't tell the light-brown and shiny-brown apart without the stripe; luckily the dark-brown is easy enough to spot. Luckily that means I just make inadvertant crossover cables occasionally!