KEMUZ: Crazy Wiring, Part 5

"QUANTUM SHOT" #462
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Ask your boss to unravel it instead

Never underestimate the power of a mess. It fills all the space allowed for it, but what's worse, it messes up with your brain. Bad wiring jobs often do more psychological harm than even electrical.

The darn thing might work, but its messed-up wiring is gonna haunt you - and will not let go until you take one end of that cable and religiously follow it... into all kinds of rabbit holes. In fact, many tech guys spend a huge chunk of their lives just following the wiring.

In honor of that miserable activity - here is another installment of the mad, mad, mad cable work:

A forest of wires; replaces a real forest in some places:

Cable Waterfalls! Enjoy the view:

(image credit: sysadminday)

Vintage computer wiring (among the printed circuit boards) from Computer History Museum in Mt. View:

(image credit: Stephan Morais)

Electric Wiring Nightmares

Slightly squeezed, I'd say (or maybe these wires grew like mushrooms out of the single spore, given proper humidity...) -

How many ways can you split it? -

(image credit: sysadminday)

Just nail everything to the wall... a radical solution:

Miserable Wiring Situations

When things go wrong, they go really wrong - even though (if you choose to believe the sources) these crazy clumps of spaghetti actually work:

A cable is too short? DUCT TAPE always saves the day:

No wonder they have wiring challenges. Try to wire properly this ex-bus computer sales office:

You know who to blame...
(he's probably monitoring the advance of LOLcats over the internet) -

Or perhaps this cat is after another kind of jackpot:

if you got hanging wires, why not decorate them? -

(image credit: Robin)

What's more, the hanging wires in the picture above also contain a mobile and a functional game server!..

Sysadmins get all the respect. They get to tackle this...

Look at it and shudder:

(images credit: sysadminday)

This is a cry from the heart... written on this door: "Do Not Touch!! Or else... you'll be cursed by the Divine Powers", signed by the Satanic SysAdmin:

(image credit: Academ.org)

Here is probably the above-mentioned punishment, ruthlessly exacted:

(image credit: sysadminday)

In most cases, given enough patience, the wiring could be unraveled and the problem traced to its source... as long as there is no frigging SNAKE inside the PC case:

The frustration sometimes takes ugly forms:

This is done correctly. Respect.

Order is contagious:
(wiring done right at World Trade & Convention Centre in Halifax)

(sent in by Dave Rudderham)

Some other wiring challenges:

CD-80 installation is hairy, to say the least:

(sent in by Dave Rudderham)

Weird (and wired) workplace, perched up high:

(photo by Vladimir Ermilov)

Russian Army Modem (serious-looking device, don't mess with it) -

Sometimes wiring is only the beginning of sysadmin worries. Check out this guy who decided to buy something online:

This is NOT how to make online purchases!
(note that there is already two cards in the slot... he must have confused PC with ATM, poor guy)