• m-p{3}
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    62 years ago

    But God has the challenge of starting with a minuscule room, expand the cabling as it goes without being able to unplug or replace any cables or move servers during the lifetime of the system, and can’t afford any downtime or shutdown for maintenance.

    • @SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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      32 years ago

      without being able to unplug or replace any cables

      Oh! Oh! Here’s where I get to bring out one of my favorite terms, which I rarely get to do: Foramen ovale.

      Short version: It’s a hole in the fetal heart that allows blood to bypass the (non-functioning) lungs. It usually closes up at birth. God found a way to re-route cables upon deploying the system into production.

  • @4am@lemm.ee
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    22 years ago

    God dammit, those aren’t IT cables, they’re TV cables. The AV guys did it!

    • @eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      32 years ago

      TV broadcast headends used to be these monstrously wonderful collisions of AV and networking cables and devices.

      Wish I’d taken more pictures, but you know, wanted to keep my job.

      • Nobsi
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        -12 years ago

        Picture was taken for… documentation!

    • Papamousse
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      Yup, SDI, certainly Miranda/Grassvalley stuff like a Kaleido

  • Considering what the device on the left is capable of compared to the device on the right, the cable management on the left suddenly looks very elegant and efficient.

  • sivalente
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    12 years ago

    They’d show the pcb layout if they wanted a true representation.

  • @david@feddit.uk
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    12 years ago

    The pedantic nerd in me wants to compare half of the building with the woman, or just the bit right next to the heart to the bit right next to the cabinet.

    • mayo_cider [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      That’s why we have to lock the routers in a rack, they’d fall down the stairs and die immediately otherwise