From: apthebold on
On Feb 1, 12:39 pm, Rick Jones <rick.jon...(a)hp.com> wrote:
> Doug McIntyre <mer...(a)geeks.org> wrote:
> > The thing is, they seem to disappear, never to be seen again (for
> > those datacenters that have lots of Sun gear lying around).
>
> Desk drawers...
>
> > Its sort of the same as CageNuts. I have to keep buying them about
> > once a year. I don't know where they go, but I keep running out...
>
> The bottom of racks and under the floor :)
>
> rick jones
> --
> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

I must be an unusual pack rat then, as I seem to have a hundred server
keys laying around, and about a thousand cage nuts.
From: Barry OGrady on
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:24:25 -0800 (PST), apthebold
<apthebold(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>On Feb 1, 12:39�pm, Rick Jones <rick.jon...(a)hp.com> wrote:
>> Doug McIntyre <mer...(a)geeks.org> wrote:
>> > The thing is, they seem to disappear, never to be seen again (for
>> > those datacenters that have lots of Sun gear lying around).
>>
>> Desk drawers...
>>
>> > Its sort of the same as CageNuts. I have to keep buying them about
>> > once a year. I don't know where they go, but I keep running out...
>>
>> The bottom of racks and under the floor :)
>>
>> rick jones
>> --
>> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
>
>I must be an unusual pack rat then, as I seem to have a hundred server
>keys laying around, and about a thousand cage nuts.

eBay.

=-=-=
Barry
http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og
From: Richard B. Gilbert on
Barry OGrady wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:24:25 -0800 (PST), apthebold
> <apthebold(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 1, 12:39 pm, Rick Jones <rick.jon...(a)hp.com> wrote:
>>> Doug McIntyre <mer...(a)geeks.org> wrote:
>>>> The thing is, they seem to disappear, never to be seen again (for
>>>> those datacenters that have lots of Sun gear lying around).
>>> Desk drawers...
>>>
>>>> Its sort of the same as CageNuts. I have to keep buying them about
>>>> once a year. I don't know where they go, but I keep running out...
>>> The bottom of racks and under the floor :)

"Under the floor" can be a fascinating study!! "Cage nuts" are the
least that you can find under a raised floor. Berg jumpers, 10-32 round
head machine screws, the remains of somebody's baloney sandwich, most of
the dust that has not yet settled inside one computer or another. . . .
And, of course the cables that are no longer connected to anything but
were too much trouble to remove. . . . Been there, done that!