Haha, this is like the coolest thing I've seen in years. If this goes on for another few months, I guess when you come home you'll be arranging your mugs or towels like: white, orange, white, blue, white, green, white, brown :D

Another alternative you could've done, is to draw a sleeping kitty with a big number 5 tattooed on it's back. Next to it draw a couple more cats with "5e" and "6" numbers on them.

When I think of TIA568 wiring, I imagine eight anthro furries sitting on a bridge, and their tails dangling down and twisting into each other.


And really, this is like a shock to me. I had no idea The Military can use Cat 5 cables for it's infrastructure networking. I thought they use some super-obscure set of standards, requiring specially certified dark green napalm-proof cables, camouflaged routers, all connectors circular and IP68 rated, bulletproof servers, etc.

Oh shit, was it not apparent that I'm done with the service? And these posts are all coming off the backlog I accumulated over the year?

Well, I can't really speak for "The Military" or any other military force around the world other than the one I was at. And, well, it isn't really rich enough to throw around some seriously hi-tech stuff. But the way we had it, there was two kinds of networks one would set up: networks for processing classified data and networks for non-secret data. For the latter, you can use whatever darned cable you please, every jury rig them together if you please. The secret-processing-networks had meatier requirements, but not intensely so. Cat 6 cables plus fiber optic cables were all we used. But these networks were much more intensely protected from physical access though.

Aw, and I thought you were at a leave for a few weeks, then back at the camp. Silly me. :P