[62623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worst design decisions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt)
Fri Sep 19 22:45:20 2003
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:47:03 -0500
From: "Matt" <acheron@qwest.net>
To: "Frank" <druid@softdust.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1063879037.2379.6.camel@coruscant.eng.aorta.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Frank wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 00:43, Matt wrote:
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>>Hello all,
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>>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.
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>the orginal GSR blanks came without handles. They were also put in tight
>as ***. For days after, your fingers would have the imprints of the
>little screws on them. I once use my socks to protect my fingers when I
>was pulling them out.
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>Frank
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You grabbed another one from that chassis I hadn't considered right away
(although I do now). Yes, that was extremely annoying - I snapped a
screw once on an old 5800 chassis with the same design flaw.
