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This has served me very well for decades. Many datacenters will not allow photographs, but if you ask they will usually allow you to photograph your own equipm

This has served me very well for decades. Many datacenters will not allow photographs, but if you ask they will usually allow you to photograph your own equipment as long as it is only pictures of your own gear. Years ago I was managing 10 racks, and I built some scripts to automate turning an SD card filled with images into HTML pages. I would bring in my midrange Nikon DSLR and take photos of the cabinets (upper, mid, lower, both front and back). These high quality photos allowed for high zoom levels that often came in handy. We had facility staff thank us for sending photos with our work requests on remote hands issues. Now I watch youtube videos with people taking apart and repairing electrical and car related things and think "It sure could be handy to have a full video record of repair work." I've also been remodeling my house and have taken copious photos of the work, both to help the inspectors, and for future work. My brother in law just had a house water damage issue and several rooms were torn down to the studs. I recommended he take photos while the walls were open, for future reference. There's a great use case for taking lots of photos.

deathanatos 8y ago
I once installed a CPU onto a motherboard; the resulting machine didn't boot, and the initial attempts at root-causing the issue implicated the motherboard, so I arranged for it to be RMA'd. However, that meant the CPU needed to come out of the socket, and a small plastic placeholder that protects the pins in the socket needed to go back in. I did not take photos of it prior to removing it, and afterwards I really wish I had. This manufacturer appears to have made two different iterations, slightly different around just this area, with the same model number. The manual's instructions (which were written in broken English, b/c China…) were wrong (they were for the other version), and directly contacting customer support got me the same instructions. The pictures in the manual didn't match the hardware in front of me, so even that didn't help. I eventually "intuited" how it fit together, but I caused damage to the pins in doing so. A single photo of the assembled version would have really helped.
wlesieutre 8y ago
I've heard of construction companies offering this as a service, in addition to the plans you can have photospheres of every room before the drywall goes on. Could come in pretty handy if you ever need to know exactly where some wire or pipe was run.

deathanatos 8y ago

I once installed a CPU onto a motherboard; the resulting machine didn't boot, and the initial attempts at root-causing the issue implicated the motherboard, so I arranged for it to be RMA'd. However, that meant the CPU needed to come out of the socket, and a small plastic placeholder that protects the pins in the socket needed to go back in. I did not take photos of it prior to removing it, and afterwards I really wish I had. This manufacturer appears to have made two different iterations, slightly different around just this area, with the same model number. The manual's instructions (which were written in broken English, b/c China…) were wrong (they were for the other version), and directly contacting customer support got me the same instructions. The pictures in the manual didn't match the hardware in front of me, so even that didn't help. I eventually "intuited" how it fit together, but I caused damage to the pins in doing so. A single photo of the assembled version would have really helped.

wlesieutre 8y ago

I've heard of construction companies offering this as a service, in addition to the plans you can have photospheres of every room before the drywall goes on. Could come in pretty handy if you ever need to know exactly where some wire or pipe was run.