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The Art of Cable Folding
Mudzy writes "Nothing is worst than a bunch of dangling cables inside your computer case. The Tech Zone has a cool article up showing how to do Voodoo PC style cable folds. "
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do you mean "The Art Of Cable Folding"???
Fold your cable wrong and you get nasty reflections from the corners. Careful there!
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Hmmm... looks like this mirrordot page is folded to only show adverts....
Luckily for the ones with the rounded cables, none of them understands the crosstalk issues, but ignorance is bliss
You can get round cables with shielding that prevents this.
No, you get to pay a extra 15 dollars for round cables that claim to prevent this by "sheilding".
Think about it.
Cross talk is from cable to cable. That's why they are flat, so as to minimize the amount that their magnetic fields interact.
Hell that's why they went from 40 cable ribbons to 80 cable ribbons. It's just to add extra space because the faster speeds increase more interference.
It's not designed at all to prevent interference from other cables or sources of radiation.
Also cables are kept short, not to prevent signal interference, but to resolve timing issues and degragation from cross-talk.
Also if your "sheilding" isn't grounded its not sheilding at all. It's a antenna. It's directing radio signals directly into your wires were they are grounded out thru the data carrying wires.
So unless each of the 40 data cables are [i]individually raped in a foil or copper AND grounded AT BOTH ENDS[/i] your cables are not sheilded AND you've been ripped off.
The whole rounded cable thing is a scam to sell inferior cables at inflated prices.
Keep in mind this is something I get FREE with my harddrives and you have to go out and spend 15-35 dollars on them, depending on how gullible you are.
BTW. I have some land in florida that I would like to sell you. CHEAP! I also have some elbow grease that you can use to lubricate the electrons in your cables to make it so that you can overclock your RAM easier!
The cables will stay the way you fold them without glue or anything, especially the 80 wire cables. The older 40 wire cables are a bit softer, but still OK. You should always use 80 wire cables anyway.
Martin
Mirror dot only shows the first page
Grr
blog.sam.liddicott.com
Not a perfect mirror, but you can at least read the text on the first page of the article and see a pic1 a78a32880232a7e/index.html
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/a662ce777aff4472
as one of the other people in this thread has said, try technocrat.net... nowhere near /.'s story throughput but that will change given more readers. perens rules with an iron fist and keeps things in line. the xfce submission, discussion of windows on warships and mathematics of origami article show how things should be done.
In the world of roadies and pro audio nerds, there's a method for cable folding/wrapping that I learned years ago. It's popularly called the "over/under method".
The idea is to wrap the cable in such a way that, when thrown, it will unravel perfectly without any knots or tangles; but it's still useful for smaller cables because it trains the shielding in such a way that promotes flexibility and prevents twists, curves, and tangles.
Stagecraft has a video demonstration of how to do it (QuickTime, AVI, RealMedia), and the Internet Sound Institute has a tutorial with diagrams.