AustinTech

I recently had the opportunity to run some new network cables at one of our facilities. One of the requirements we ran into included creating new UTP cables and some fixing some old cables that had been run previously.

I quickly realized that I needed a primer on this as I hadn’t done it in ages. Needless to say we weren’t successful at first and some of the attempts were rather wrong (especially on my part). So, to remedy that and to allow some future notes to myself, here’s a quick tutorial on how to make network cables (including cross-over cables).

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p>I’m not sure if I’ll ever do anything such as write my own operating system, but I have gotten a little interested in it after looking at projects such as MenuetOS. Of course, I wouldn’t expect it would get anywhere and probably wouldn’t be of use except to myself. However, the knowledge and experience gained might be worth it, plus…it’s just darn fun! Read the rest of this entry »