Speedcabling "sport"
According to the BBC, a new 'sport' has taken off in a big way during the last month which sees IT professionals competing to unravel the mass of wires typically found beneath computer desks in offices the world over. 'Speedcabling' sees contestants faced with a tangled mass of up to twelve Ethernet cables of various lengths up to 25 feet which they must separate in the fastest time. To replicate the conditions of the wires in the wild, the networking spaghetti is tied in complex figures of eight then cycled in a tumble dryer. "After that, they're pretty much how they appear in nature," confirmed eccentric Speedcabling founder Steven Schkolne. The first Speedcabling competition took place in an art gallery in Los Angeles and was won by LA-based web developer Matthew Howell. Read More
Posted at 02:51PM Feb 27, 2008 by Simon Bullen in Networking | Comments[0]
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