Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,

Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost

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White green, green, white blue, orange, white orange, blue, white brown, brown.

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T568A White green, Green, White orange, Blue, White blue, Orange, White brown, Brown

T568B White orange, Orange, White green, Blue, White blue, Green, White brown, Brown

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Are you making a crossover cable or installing it for the government? Those are the only places that I know of that A is used regularly. Nearly everywhere else uses B in my experience.

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Are you making the assumption I am from North America?

Every place I have worked in Australia and Europe uses green first.

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Really? I wasn’t sure which one I “should” use so I looked at a cable that I had laying around (probably came with a cable modem or something?) and was able to see the wire colors through the connector and it was A. So that’s what I’ve been using when making patch cables or wiring my house.

I guess my question is what’s your experience with where B is used? Mostly I’m just curious, it probably doesn’t really matter for me since I only do networking work in my house.

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I guess it doesn’t really matter as long as you stick to one for both ends of the cable

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It shouldn’t actually matter. It’s strictly by convention that the US (and probably North America; unclear about beyond) almost exclusively uses B. The big risk is that people will assume it’s B, and the other end is B, which can cause issues when they e.g. replace a receptacle and make all of your connections crossover. But even that shouldn’t matter much these days.

There’s also some very limited issues switching from A to B on the same line (A in wall, B in patch cable), but this is very rare. If you saw A, it was probably either a crossover, or you live in a place that uses A.

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So I learned all this almost 2 decades ago so the details may be off…

There’s crossover cables, which are a-b and used if you want to connect one computer to another-the tx and rx are flipped from one side to the other, so two “client” devices (like 2 computers) don’t speak and listen on the same line

There’s rollover cables, which are flipped on one side, that were used to connect to the console port of a router

Aside from that, nothing about the configuration really matters except being standard. The reason they’re not just in stripe-color color order is to separate the tx and rx to minimize interference

I’m pretty sure all of this became moot after hundred gigabit Ethernet became a common thing anyways - they multiplex electrical signals across each of the wires, so they have to negotiate the method or fall back to a simpler protocol from the start. I’m not sure how robust it is to randomly shuffling the order on each side individually (I wouldn’t try it on hardware I wasn’t willing to risk)

So really, all that matters is that it matches. And since we’ve been doing it a certain way for so long, doing it differently is a bad idea. A vs b makes no difference, but you could make green the split pair and it’d be identical. You could use the same arbitrary order on each side and you’d probably not notice much difference, although you might get a lot more errors from minute interference

And FWIW, I think b is the more common standard across the world… But any advantage or disadvantage probably died back when we stopped using those trunk lines with dozens of pairs split out on a punch down block that goes to a bunch of different homes

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California Cows Don’t Dance the Fandango

Steps for laser printing:

Cleaning, Charging, Drawing, Developing, Transferring, Fusing

I’ve known this for over 20 years and never used it. Thanks catchy mnemonics!

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I managed to memorize it for a test in networking class. The teacher was surprised someone actually managed to get it right.

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T568-A guy I see

I’m a B guy myself.

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A kangaroo’s testicles are ON TOP of its penis rather than below.

This is basically what I say whenever someone asks me for a fun fact too roflmao

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Today I Learned!

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So any sex position where the balls are higher than the penis could be called “kangy style”?

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And that’s now my fun fact too lol

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The little piece of plastic at the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet.

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I learned that from Phineas and Ferb.

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IT DOESN’T MATTER!!

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In what way?

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Thank you Terraria for this useless piece of info

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Pretty sure it was the movie Repossessed with Leslie Nielsen that taught me this one.

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Their true purpose is sinister

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I was gonna correct you and say aiglet, but turns out it’s both correct

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Laser is an acronym and doesn’t have a god damned Z in it.

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Laser is no longer an acronym. It’s now an anacronym, which means it’s its own word (despite originally being an acronym)

Source: Wikipedia

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Well TIL!

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TIL - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

That reminds me, so is SCUBA, RADAR and MODEM…I miss the old History Channel shows, especially Modern Marvels

SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (Blew my mind for some reason when I learned that)
RADAR: Radio Detection and Ranging (I’ve watched alot of WWII documentaries)
MODEM: Modulation Demodulation (I’ve worked in tech)

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So is Tuba: Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus

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Also, Lithuania is really good at making the fancy ones, like ones for research, variable frequency ones, femtosecond ones, etc.

I had to look it up, but we’re #13 by global export value (not counting laser diodes)

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Seth McFarlane slept in one morning and missed his plane home. Little did he know that this exact plane hit the World Trade Center.

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