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You've been a bad, bad sysadmin

Xeni Jardin at 3:49 pm Wed, May 18, 2011

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"Handcrafted Fire-Colored Cat-5 Cable Flogger," Etsy user feralswirl, a mere $10.
(via GeeksAreSexy via Jeff Simmermon)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • Anonymous

    This is actually a LART — A Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool.
    And of course, it’s applied to, but BY sysadmins…

  • Anonymous

    oooh….hert me baby…….

  • Anonymous

    Socket to me, socket to me, socket to me!!!

  • Anonymous

    THWACK! “That’s what you get for rolling out that patch without testing it!” THWACK! “You uninstalled WHAT!!!” THWACK! “What the hell do you mean, ‘what backup?’”

  • Anonymous

    LOL need two of this !

  • peacock

    Please don’t ppppunish me. I promise I will stop reading your email!

  • Gulliver

    I see ordinary explicit porn and I think, same ol’ boring farce. But I see this picture and the fantasy module loads right away. I think my minds have been irreparably warped by technology.

  • Anonymous

    Well this thing has 10 tails. You can see 8 tails right away. The 9th tail ends under the 4th (counted from the bottom).
    The 10th tail is a bit tricky: If you check where the 9th tail ends and where the ripples starting on the 1st cable (counted from bottom) -> that would be a very long RJ-45 plug

    also: how would you create a 9 tailed whip when all cables wrap around at the other end..?

    • peterbruells

      Man, y’ll got better eyes than me.

      http://www.bruells.de/img/il_fullxfull-1.243587157_numberered.jpg

  • GeekMan

    OOOH MYYYY.

    Those RJ-45 plugs will leave marks.

  • Dave McCaig

    Oh, man – how did they miss calling it the “Cat-o’ five tails”

    • Rob

      Somebody (ThinkGeek? Didn’t find it in my original search) had one called that way. Worked too, consisted of various testing cables.

    • peterbruells

      Probably because it has eight tails. As befitting a BOFH, of course. (16 would be acceptable, too)

      • djn

        Looks like nine tome (one is hard to see, hidden under the cable of the fourth from the bottom). So yes – Cat5 o’ nine tails. :)

        • peterbruells

          Ah yes, thanks for the corrects. Bah, how old skool. Guess I’ll have to make my own, then.

  • Anonymous

    I’m on a roll…You know they use it till it HERTZ! LOL

  • Anonymous

    These have been around since the 90s. The one I have hanging up upstairs was designed so that each pair of cables had a specific (and useful) pinout. The cable with a connector on the hilt was a straight pass-through. There was a crossover cable, one set up for interfacing with Cisco kit and I’m embarrassed to say that I don’t remember the rest of the pinouts.

  • Anonymous

    As a sysadmin myself -I approve

  • Anonymous

    Hertz? I’d think that’d MEGA-HERTZ.

  • turn_self_off

    Any PHB found in the server dungeon will be shackled and flogged by this.

  • Seg

    A real sys-admin makes their own Cat-5!

  • laureltree

    Aw… It sold! =(
    definitely awesome!

  • Pres

    Hit me, humiliate me, make me install Windows ME… ;-)

    • Anonymous

      So dirty.

  • sdmikev

    The beatings will continue in the datacenter until morale improves.

    • dross1260

      Don’t make me reach for the switch.

  • pgl

    (Psst: it’s actually $35.)

  • CountZero

    I need/don’t need one of these…

  • Matt Cornell

    Cat-5 o’ nine tails?

  • Mantari

    Would this not have made the PERFECT GIFT for Terry Childs?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Childs

  • Anonymous

    I will be crafting more of these this week, in all colors. :)

    ~Paleopunk Productions
    Etsy – Feralswirl

  • Dewi Morgan

    The borg punish each other with these.

    They call it the “Cat 5 of 9 tails”.

    • peterbruells

      AS long as it is administered by 7 of 9…

  • Drew from Zhrodague

    Wow, that made me blush!

  • CountZero

    I need/don’t need one of these…

  • badvoodoo

    Reminds me of my own sysadmin weapon of choice, the “Power Supply of Pain”: http://i.imgur.com/ystGR.jpg

  • Stonewalker

    Am I boring because my first thought was “I bet they pulled the twists out when making that”?