[62548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worst design decisions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Granados)
Thu Sep 18 19:20:40 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:14:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Granados <scott@wworks.net>
To: Ben Browning <benb@theriver.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030918114504.02c9efd8@127.0.0.1>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Your all missing my most favorite bad design decision.
And I know that in other areas this has been mentioned and made fun of
enough but ...
Who thought it was a good idea to put braille on the drive up atms?
And having a contact in banking I do know that banks pay extra for this
feature its not just a case that they are all made this way.
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Ben Browning wrote:
>
>
> >> > Was doing some upgrades on a UBR7246 (to a VXR), and I got to thinking
> >> > about short sighted design considerations. I was curious if any of you
> >> > had some pet peeves from a design perspective to rant about. I'll start
> >> > with a couple.
>
> Here are a few of mine:
>
> The little clippy widgets (looks kind of like @) on some oldschool racks,
> that hold the nut in place for the hex-head bolt. Why these were considered
> desirable is beyond me.
>
> The slimline DS3 patch panels. God help you should you need to do something
> with the two innermost wires on the back end of that- there's barely room
> for pliers, much less fingers.
>
> Procurve switch management interface. Archaic, arcane, insane, unusable.
>
> Cisco V-notched power cables - Design "feature" geared around getting
> suckers to buy a power cable for 45USD.
>
> ~Ben
> ---
> Ben Browning <benb@theriver.com>
> The River Internet Access Co.
> WA Operations Manager
> 1-877-88-RIVER http://www.theriver.com
>
>
