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Cleaning and recabling
Sep. 21st, 2008 09:01 pmMy God, but the cable-work under my desk was in a truly squalid state: miles of knotted wire, thick layers of dust and cobwebs, all sitting on top of a filthy area of carpet. Thus, when I decided that today was the day to decommission my two ancient Dell servers — a Poweredge SP466 and an XPS Pro200n — I found myself face down in foulness.
Confronted with this horror, my sense of fastidiousness — never one of my primary motivators — was sufficiently appalled to compel me to disconnect everything and spent a couple of hours cleaning and rewiring. The task was, needless to say, absolutely awful but, having done it, I now feel a glowing sense of accomplishment. More than once, post-cleanup, I've caught myself trying to come up with reasons to look under the desk just so that I can admire the lack of clutter. Let's hope it lasts.
Confronted with this horror, my sense of fastidiousness — never one of my primary motivators — was sufficiently appalled to compel me to disconnect everything and spent a couple of hours cleaning and rewiring. The task was, needless to say, absolutely awful but, having done it, I now feel a glowing sense of accomplishment. More than once, post-cleanup, I've caught myself trying to come up with reasons to look under the desk just so that I can admire the lack of clutter. Let's hope it lasts.
