[Tfug] Yet another poser

[johngalt1]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich" <>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Yet another poser


>
> On Sep 18, 2007, at 3:20 pm, johngalt1 wrote:
>
>> What, a PoE NIC for your PC? Please specify a make and part number.
> Amazing. You're right. There aren't any.
>
> I find it amazing, because I expected there to be at least be some
> musical equipment that uses PoE, which would need a PoE-capable nic.
> Evidently not. I guess that's why God gave us firewire... :-)
>
> Anyway, never mind PoE -- 100Base-T4 and 1000Base-T use all eight
> conductors, and can be crossed over. That Graybar cable wouldn't work
> with these two standards, while every other cable would.

No. A standard 568A / 568B crossover cable would not work for copper Gigabit

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/c3550/12112cea/3550hig/35cable.htm#1019307



> This is very reminiscent of people who don't give a toss about Web
> standards. Their pages become unreadable over time, while those who
> *do* stick to the standards produce work that is readable for all
> time; because we're not left guessing exactly *which* parts of the
> standard they cherry-picked.

Heh, which web standards? W3C or Microsoft standards? :-P