[155971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Color vision for network techs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Aug 31 17:05:44 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAVLHR3eiGyv56hA1sW5fc89nOdPX04LJsFPu8TRVNsT=BgxVw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:59:05 -0700
To: betsy.schwartz@gmail.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 31, 2012, at 13:29 , Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed monitoring software with different colored status dots,
> and discovered that we had three color-blind team members. After a
> pleasant hour's tweaking I ended up with green diamonds, red X's,
> purple squares, and yellow exclamation points (and on this particular
> application a mouse-over would also tell you the name of the color
> gif) Looked better for *everyone*.
This sounds vaguely like a cereal commercial from when I was a kid.
Was the application "magically delicious" ?
Owen
