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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Ian Jackson wrote:

http://www.markyboy.net/vmbox2.jpg

Did you forget to turn on the flash? All I'm getting here is a blank
black screen ...

(The first one is still ok.)

The first time I looked at the photo, it was OK. Now its all dark.
However, the EXIF data says the flash did fire.

Indeed it did, but the camera's generally not that good. It does have a
really good mobile phone application though, and that does work very well.

Anyway, I'll take a shot in daylight tomorrow morning, and update the
gruesome picture.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11815200/virgin.jpg

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On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:22:40 +0000, Mark Carver
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Ian Jackson wrote:

http://www.markyboy.net/vmbox2.jpg

Did you forget to turn on the flash? All I'm getting here is a blank
black screen ...

(The first one is still ok.)

The first time I looked at the photo, it was OK. Now its all dark.
However, the EXIF data says the flash did fire.

Indeed it did, but the camera's generally not that good. It does have a
really good mobile phone application though, and that does work very well.

Anyway, I'll take a shot in daylight tomorrow morning, and update the
gruesome picture.

I've put a processed version of that picture on my website
(temporarily):
http://www.peterduncanson.net/temp/vmbox2.jpg

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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"ian field" wrote in message
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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ian field wrote:
"Sheila" wrote in message

I would go with "Virgin Media for such a pathetically insecure
installation". It may have been visited by vandals, but I am not
totally convinced. Three observations, VM contractors have been known
to use force to gain access to cabinets, no attempt has been made to
vandalise the contents

That'll be because it was copper thieves who lost interest at first
sight of the fibre-optic cables.

95% of the cables in there are copper coax, and power

95% of 0 is...........................
There is a mass of around 50 coax cables connected to the network in the
centre of the photo. Mark's statement is a fair approximation.


Please Mr scrap metal merchant - what can you give me for a few yards of
co-ax and a sprig of 3A mains lead?

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"Sheila" wrote in message
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Photographed this on my walk to work this morning:-

http://www.markyboy.net/vmbox.jpg (850k)

Last week, the daisy chained white cable ties were half way up the
cabinet, holding the door closed, quelle surprise this morning it looks
like this. Curiously the vandals haven't ripped the guts out (yet)

I don't know who's the dimmest. The vandals, or Virgin Media for such a
pathetically insecure installation ?

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Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

http://www.paras.org.uk/


I would go with "Virgin Media for such a pathetically insecure
installation". It may have been visited by vandals, but I am not totally
convinced. Three observations, VM contractors have been known to use
force to gain access to cabinets, no attempt has been made to vandalise
the contents

That'll be because it was copper thieves who lost interest at first sight
of the fibre-optic cables.


The UK's Cable TV/Broadband network uses coax to distribute the network
from street cabinets to customers homes.


It'd be less hard work trying to find a job under a thieving toraidhe
government than trying to make a living weighing in stolen co-ax.

Its expensive to recover the metal from all that plastic - the scrap yards
would really prefer not to take it.

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On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:14:19 -0000, "ian field"
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"Sheila" wrote in message
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"ian field" wrote in message
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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ian field wrote:
"Sheila" wrote in message

I would go with "Virgin Media for such a pathetically insecure
installation". It may have been visited by vandals, but I am not
totally convinced. Three observations, VM contractors have been known
to use force to gain access to cabinets, no attempt has been made to
vandalise the contents

That'll be because it was copper thieves who lost interest at first
sight of the fibre-optic cables.

95% of the cables in there are copper coax, and power

95% of 0 is...........................
There is a mass of around 50 coax cables connected to the network in the
centre of the photo. Mark's statement is a fair approximation.


Please Mr scrap metal merchant - what can you give me for a few yards of
co-ax and a sprig of 3A mains lead?


Scrap value of coax.... 50p

Satisfaction of disconnecting TV, broadband and phone from 20
houses....immense.

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"Rick" wrote in message
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"Sheila" wrote in message
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"ian field" wrote in message
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"Sheila" wrote in message
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Photographed this on my walk to work this morning:-

http://www.markyboy.net/vmbox.jpg (850k)

Last week, the daisy chained white cable ties were half way up the
cabinet, holding the door closed, quelle surprise this morning it
looks like this. Curiously the vandals haven't ripped the guts out
(yet)

I don't know who's the dimmest. The vandals, or Virgin Media for such
a pathetically insecure installation ?

--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

http://www.paras.org.uk/


I would go with "Virgin Media for such a pathetically insecure
installation". It may have been visited by vandals, but I am not
totally convinced. Three observations, VM contractors have been known
to use force to gain access to cabinets, no attempt has been made to
vandalise the contents

That'll be because it was copper thieves who lost interest at first
sight of the fibre-optic cables.


The UK's Cable TV/Broadband network uses coax to distribute the network
from street cabinets to customers homes.


But as Terry has pointed out, it's not copper it's a stainless steel
copper plated inner and stainless steel braid, or all of the stuff that
I've ever seen (or used) has been, going right back to the days of the
original United Artists.

Yes, the idea that copper thieves forced the doors was a daft idea. My point
was to correct the comment that VM's street distribution cabinets contain
fibre-optic cables.

Sheila

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Sheila wrote:
"ian field" wrote in message
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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ian field wrote:
"Sheila" wrote in message
I would go with "Virgin Media for such a pathetically insecure
installation". It may have been visited by vandals, but I am not
totally convinced. Three observations, VM contractors have been known
to use force to gain access to cabinets, no attempt has been made to
vandalise the contents
That'll be because it was copper thieves who lost interest at first
sight of the fibre-optic cables.
95% of the cables in there are copper coax, and power
95% of 0 is...........................
There is a mass of around 50 coax cables connected to the network in the
centre of the photo. Mark's statement is a fair approximation.

Sheila
Plus the splitting and amplifying links.

Bill

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Ian Jackson wrote:


The first time I looked at the photo, it was OK. Now its all dark.

Try again in the morning when it's daylight.

Bill

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In article , says...

Yes, the idea that copper thieves forced the doors was a daft idea. My point
was to correct the comment that VM's street distribution cabinets contain
fibre-optic cables.


Whilst fibre is not found in cabinets which handle subscriber distribution, there is an
exception.

Magnavox used to do a Trunk amplifier with an integral fibre receiver, known as Fibre-in-
the-lid, for obvious reasons.

Examples I've seen, in former NYNEX areas, have had subscriber distribution in the same
cabinet.

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Terry

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In article , says...

But as Terry has pointed out, it's not copper it's a stainless steel copper
plated inner and stainless steel braid, or all of the stuff that I've ever
seen (or used) has been, going right back to the days of the original United
Artists.


I pointed out that it is steel but I never said it was stainless (because it isn't!)

Also, the braid is aluminium alloy.

If you can find a specification for stainless steel drop cable, I'd like to see it ...!

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Terry