[ILUG] [ot] cables

[Smith, Graham - Computing Technician]

<rant>
yea internal connections in general are pretty horrible...
Power connections are always really stiff to remove
from the backs of drives etc....

In my last job, we had a lot of machines with very badly
finished sharp metal in the cases... led to some very nasty
cuts and grazes when replacing hardware etc.

Most connections in PC's piss people off... 'D' connectors
for serial and parallel ports.. like how much time is spent
trying to get it connected the right way up - the same with PS2
connections too.... USB can be annoying too if you dont
have frontal USB ports and you're constantly reaching
behind a tower to remove and add cameras and scanners etc.

I have a bad habit of biting my fingernails, so even jumpers
on hdd's can be a challenge sometimes!

</rant>

G.

___________________________
 Graham Smith,
 Network Administrator,
 Department of Computing,
 Institute of Technology,
 Tallaght, Dublin 24
 Phone: + 353 (01) 4042840

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Dickson [mailto:simon at dicksonent.com]
Sent: 29 January 2002 14:48
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] [ot] cables


Please excuse this is it's a touch off topic but anyways :) .

Has anyone else ever noticed that ide cables are always scarse yet the
floppy 
cables are in abundance, I wish you got like 3 IDE cables with every mother 
board, it would stop this problem.

I'm just trying to put a box together here to test out the freeBSD 4.5 rc3 
and suprise I need a ide cable to connect a hard drive, rumaging through my 
box of goodies I get excited only to find each time it's another damn floppy

cable.

Well I guess I feel better now. Have to wait untill morning for my play with

FreeBSD 4.5

Simon
-- 
Dickson Computer Services
phone/fax 07 55949328
mobile     0412 268 975
e-mail   simon at dicksonent.com

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