MOTM

At 7:29 AM -0600 2003/02/18, Paul Schreiber wrote:
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>I color-code to *length*, not by function.
>

Same here. I use black for the shortest cables (1 footers) and white 
for the longest cables (6 footers). I have a rainbow of colours 
between the two in 1 foot increments, the darker the hue the shorter 
the cable.

How do you estimate the number of cables you'll need? For the upper 
bound, I count up the total number of jacks in my modular and divide 
by two. For the lower bound I divide the total number of jacks by 
four. To estimate the total number of jacks, I use 4 jacks per U as 
an average. I build cables as I add more modules. I just manage to 
stay ahead of the lower bound and so far, so good.