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Cabling Art

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:42:35 GMT

clipped by: ryguy999
clipper's remarks: A third site from StumbleUpon. This website contains cabling "art"

When data center cabling becomes art

January 24, 2008

We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabling in the past, but this time we figured it was time to do the opposite: Show how some people have managed to organize cables into something close to art.

Courtesy of Digital:Slurp.
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Courtesy of ChrisDag.
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Courtesy of mbm3290. Swedish colors! How could we NOT include it?
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Courtesy of mmayo.
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Courtesy of Jef Newsom.
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Courtesy of Precision Fiber Optics.
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Courtesy of tim d.
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Courtesy of Network1 Cabling. (We’re not sure this is practical or not, but it LOOKS impressive…)
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This post is dedicated to Daniel Norman, cable guy extraordinaire at Loopia.se.

Tagged with:art, cables, cabling, data center, Design, Engineering, network, Operations, server rack, servers

Filed under: Engineering, Operations, Design — royal @ 7:22 am

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Fake ATM Machine

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:40:53 GMT

clipped by: ryguy999
clipper's remarks: This is yet another website I found from StumbleUpon. This is how someone could steal a person's infromation.

Clip Source: www.shaler.org

Bank ATMs Converted to Steal IDs of Bank Customers

Ordinary-looking ATM?

A false card slot is affixed over the original card slot. The false slot holds an additional card reader used to copy card information.

An ordinary monitor and pamphlet holder?

The pamphlet holder houses a hidden micro-camera.

The hidden camera is angled to view the monitor and the keypad and transmit wireless photos of them up to 200 meters.

The camera hidden in the pamphlet box includes its own battery and transmission antenna.

How To Safely Destroy A Hard Drive

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:38:06 GMT

clipped by: ryguy999
clipper's remarks: I came across this website from StumbleUpon and thought it would be interesting to share. This is the fun (and safe) way to destroy a hard drive.

Clip Source: eecue.com

We started by putting the drives into a steel crucible:

Next CHS fired up Arclight's furnace and adjusted the flame for proper heat dispersion:

Then he inserted the crucible into the furnace:

After a few minutes we noticed toxic smoke rising from the furnace vent and decided to take a look inside.

We realized we should have removed the PCBs from the drives first... oh well:

Pretty soon the only solids left in the crucible were the steel caps that enclose the case:

Once we removed those we saw that the woven fiberglass inside the PCBs still remained:

We then poured the molten aluminum into out ingot cast:

Good luck recovering data from this:

Our prognosis: drive slagging is a fool-proof method to prevent data recovery.

Tags: hard drive, metal, melt

Unfortunately Phrased News Headlines

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:00:12 GMT

clipped by: ryguy999

Clip Source: www.rinkworks.com

Headlines:

"Holy Mother Crushes Sacred Infant" -- In a Catholic newspaper, referring to a basketball game between two Catholic High Schools.

"Youth Hit By Train Is Rushed To Two Hospitals" -- In a local paper.

"Man Died of Natural Causes" -- Wirral News Group, October 25, 2000

"Tortoises Held Hostage As Lobster War Turns Nasty" -- Independent, November 19, 2000

"Pepsi To Increase Recycled Content In Products." -- The headline of an article in Plastics news about Pepsico increasing the amount of recycled plastic in their bottles.

Shark Pictures

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:24:39 GMT

clipped by: ryguy999

Clip Source: science.howstuffworks.com

Tags: sharks