Cable Tags/Cable labels

Thu Dec 13 10:20:01 PST 2001

Tags suck.  Tags pull out other things when you pull a cable.  Shrink
wrap is good.  Don't label them things likes "sybase01" give it a
label that's a pointer to that:  115701 which is charted to "sybase01"
(in LDAP or DNS TXT records AND a wallchart in the cable room (with
an expire date)).

I'm a big fan of having a really lowly computer in the cable room
that nobody wants to steal.  3Com Audrys or Wyse50's with w3m
do beautifully for query terminals.

Quoting Alberto Begliomini (aub at coldstone.com):
> Fry's sells cable ties with a little tag on one end where,
> as you said, you can write with a Sharpie. I like them a lot
> because the little tag has the same width of a CAT5 cable and
> it is about 1" long. You have enough space to write the server
> name or a serial number, as Jim pointed out, your choice. The
> Fry's part number is 1771633. They are manufactured by:
>
> All-States Inc. 
> 1801 W. Foster Avenue
> Chicago, IL 60640
> 
> I don't have a phone number, sorry. The manufacturer PLU is 1771633 (same as Fry's)