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Network pros nail the RJ45 wiring joke on a CompTIA guide
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Network pros nail the RJ45 wiring joke on a CompTIA guide

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The meme shows a photograph of a "CompTIA Network+ STUDY GUIDE Third Edition" textbook lying on a dark surface. Across the cover, two hands rest with manicured fingernails; each nail is painted in horizontal stripes exactly matching the eight-wire RJ-45/T-568B Ethernet color order (white-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown). A caption above the image reads, "You can’t call yourself a network analyst/engineer/consultant until you spot the humor in this photo!" The joke is that only someone experienced with network cabling standards will realize the nails replicate an Ethernet pin-out, turning a certification study guide into a visual inside joke. The reference speaks to CompTIA certification culture and the shared tribal knowledge of network professionals

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick That T568B manicure is the only straight-through path I’ve seen today; everything else is stuck in a Layer-8 Spanning Tree loop called “management review.”
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    That T568B manicure is the only straight-through path I’ve seen today; everything else is stuck in a Layer-8 Spanning Tree loop called “management review.”

  2. Anonymous

    When you've been debugging network issues for so long that muscle memory kicks in and you start terminating your manicure in T568B standard

  3. Anonymous

    When your manicure doubles as a subnet mask for remembering the OSI model - because real network engineers know that troubleshooting always starts at Layer 1 (Physical), even if management insists it's a Layer 8 (user) problem. At least with this approach, you'll never forget whether DNS issues occur at Layer 7 or accidentally blame the cable again

  4. Anonymous

    Spotted it: the manicure’s wired T568B - flip one hand and you’ve got a crossover; pity our patch panel labeling isn’t this consistent

  5. Anonymous

    Spotted the T568B manicure - paint the other hand 568A, call it a crossover, and tell CAB it’s patch management

  6. Anonymous

    Nails with perfect pair coloring - unlike the cable management in my last DC rack

  7. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 4y

    zeroth

    1. dev_meme 4y

      Good for you m8

    2. @sylfn 4y

      why not zeroth

      1. @RiedleroD 4y

        because he's not an actual programmer

      2. dev_meme 4y

        Because it's not c or sql

        1. @RiedleroD 4y

          or any other programming language besides lua and scratch?

          1. @sylfn 4y

            Pascal

          2. dev_meme 4y

            Hey hey scratch is my old love

            1. @RiedleroD 4y

              …come to think of it, I don't think scratch has arrays.

              1. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 4y

                it has but they are called lists

              2. dev_meme 4y

                Arrays? I'm really bad at english

                1. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 4y

                  array = масив

                  1. dev_meme 4y

                    Thanks

                  2. @sylfn 4y

                    *массив (ru)

                    1. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 4y

                      i was writing in Ukrainian

                      1. @sylfn 4y

                        uh

          3. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 4y

            and basic i think

            1. @kitbot256 4y

              Do we count Bash as a programming language?

              1. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 4y

                idk

          4. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 4y

            https://iq.opengenus.org/array-indices-start-from-1/

      3. @sylfn 4y

        (0th is original post then 1st is comment)

      4. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 4y

        yes

  8. @RiedleroD 4y

    lmao the cable colors, I get it

  9. @iashchak 4y

    Cheat sheet

  10. @declonter 4y

    T568B detected

  11. @RiedleroD 4y

    …is that the same girl as in your pfp?

    1. @sylfn 4y

      probably yes

  12. @kitbot256 4y

    And next thing you see 100mbit on your 1gig cable, and OH MY GOSH WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

    1. @RiedleroD 4y

      write in english, please. It's in the rules.

      1. @SamsonovAnton 4y

        He said that such a connection technology is optimal for 100-megabit setups. 😆

      2. @kitbot256 4y

        This was almost English. Some letters were definitely English

        1. @RiedleroD 4y

          natürlich

  13. @SamsonovAnton 4y

    Hey, what if I am a carrier-grade routing and switching expert and don't care about those miserable LAN cables? Or what if I'm an all-optical adept and never make any trade-offs towards copper technology? (Just kidding, but anyway...)

  14. @FunnyGuyU 4y

    Difficulty level: harder

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