Disaster averted
Aug. 12th, 2004 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueI wish it hereby noted that on this day, disaster was averted.
You see, fibre optic cables are one of the great boons of IT. They mean you can connect disk packs to computers more than just a couple of metres away - a singlemode fibre can be used at a distance of 10km.
But you see, they suffer from one drawback. Despite a high tensile strength, they're very prone to shattering. And there's nothing quite as frustrating as having spent 30 minutes in a computer room lifing the raised floor one segment at a time, laying a fibre, only to find that once reconnected, it's had a 'ping-fuckit' moment.
Thankfully, this didn't happen, and so a great tragedy was averted, as I didn't have to go and get a shotgun and chase around the office killing people.
This, I can only think, has improved my karmic alignment.
Or something.
You see, fibre optic cables are one of the great boons of IT. They mean you can connect disk packs to computers more than just a couple of metres away - a singlemode fibre can be used at a distance of 10km.
But you see, they suffer from one drawback. Despite a high tensile strength, they're very prone to shattering. And there's nothing quite as frustrating as having spent 30 minutes in a computer room lifing the raised floor one segment at a time, laying a fibre, only to find that once reconnected, it's had a 'ping-fuckit' moment.
Thankfully, this didn't happen, and so a great tragedy was averted, as I didn't have to go and get a shotgun and chase around the office killing people.
This, I can only think, has improved my karmic alignment.
Or something.
