Welp. Did The Shelf

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xrayspx - Thu, 04/02/2026 - 11:25pm
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This is what it looks like when I do every single project all at once. When I do one thing, but that depends on 5 other things so it explodes the office! I love this. A person with training might call this a "manic episode" but I choose to say I'm super excited and motivated. Basically I've been sitting in this office for 10 years saying "When I have 10 minutes to think, I'm gonna...".

Well today those things were:

  • Re-cable the henge and fix everything ugly. That largely happened today.
  • Put in a shelf and clean up the mess that is this VGA switcher and cabling (NeXT + 2 PCs)
  • Put non-UPS in-rack power in that one rack for non-essential machines
  • Re-think my desk/workbench side of things and cable everything up tidily

    • Doesn't look tidy, but believe me it's really clean under all the mess!

    I'm going to stick some Panduit under the new power strip and tidy up all the 9' Model M cable, I'm doing a longer VGA cable right now:








    That bin in there has one of every analog A/V cable, adapter and dingus. There are lots of angled and shorter cables coming to clean that up more. The black thing is the NeXT station breakout box for VGA, sound & keyboard. The VGA cable on the left is for stuff I want to plop down and work on like a 1u server or a PC or laptop. I have two P4 PCs that I've never even powered up because doing so would be a hassle, well Hassle No More! I have a bunch of rackmount stuff to build to replace this unstable webserver. I'm going to start with one and work my way up to two servers splitting the load here.

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