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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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Uh are we missing an 'of' here or am I just not l337 trendy?
Come on, I've been doing this for years without even thinking about it, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Like, wooow, you can actually fold the cables! :-)
Martin
Well sometimes they fold behind my desk when the desk gets smashed up against them... but seriously... what's wrong with just tossing your cables behind the desk and just let em be!?
It's good to see that Slashdot hasn't abandoned it's roots as an online hard technical journal for us geeks and nerds who can appreciate a good article on electrical engineering, computing or science. Which such high quality articles like this one, devoted to folding cables inside your computer case I..
Hang on.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT? ARE YOU ALL FUCKING SIMPLETONS?!
99% of my cables are round, 1% are flat. My cable management tasks are going to concentrate on the round ones that I see and in some case trip over.
Magic Eight Ball: Outlook not so good., Hmmm, how about Excel and Word?
The first thing that sprang to mind when I saw the picture was 'did they use glue for this?' And what kind of glue or ductape would work without dissolving the cables or turning them to a permanent sticky mess?
Does anyone else have experience with this?
Welcome to the new Slashdot, were folding a ribbon cable is newsworthy. I think it's time people like you and I, and the thousands of users who have been here even longer than us, faced facts and admit that Slashdot just isn't aimed at us anymore. It has been sucked down to the land of the Lowest Common Denominator. I suspect that the vast majority of people reading this article actually think that folding a ribbon cable is the height of hardware hacking. No doubt they consider the fools with rounded 80 conductor ATA cables Gods amongst men (Luckily for the ones with the rounded cables, none of them understands the crosstalk issues, but ignorance is bliss).
Look at the replies. Half of them are complaining about the missing "of" in the title. The other half are complaining that the site is slashdotted and are actually asking for mirrors so that they can read this "fascinating" story. No doubt they intend to rush off and fold their cables. Maybe they'll install a blue cold cathode tube while they're there.
Slashdot began it's rapid slide downhill once they all moved away from Holland and let Timothy run amok with Your Rights Online, which simply turned Slashdot from a decent science and IT geek site into a whiny under-18's bitch fest about topics the posters barely understand. Bah.
There are a few options here:
1) Use SATA/SAS/Fiber connectors
2) Buy rounded versions of the parralel cables
3) - Carefully shred the normal cables,
- Wrap them in foil if you want
- Wrap them in some pipe/heat shrink.
Then all you do is bend the things and run them around the case with cable ties.
How on earth is this news?
Thats like saying use cables of only the length you need to make less clutter in your case.
I can think of a lot of things that are worst (or even worse) than dangling cables. Being put through a mincing machine while someone was playing a scratched George Fornby record, for example.
Today, computer building is dominated by "tech" articles about... folded cables.
THIS ISN'T PROGRESS, PEOPLE!
I think you're being unfair. Yes, Taco has lost the plot, has sold out, and was always a bit lame, but look at all the other front page stories. Compiler optimization, asynchronous processing, space, materials technology, BSD release etc... The signal to noise in the comments has gone down especially over the last couple of years but there are still some tangible gems here. You can block the flamefest politics and YRO if you want. At least timothy still reads comments occasionally. However it is sad that the great perl hackers can't cobble together standards compliant HTML despite years of reader pleas. Bruce Perens' technocrat.net is a more mature forum (even with the politics) but needs a bigger readership.
- Folding cables. Oh God.
- Highly specialised hand optimised code on AMD64 will run fast. Film at 11.
- ASync CPU's under development. This would be cool if there was more technical background. As it stands it is largly a press release.
- A one man space race. Again could be cool if there more technical information, but it is just a repost of The Register and BBC articles. Ho hum.
- A Poltics story which is slipped in as an Ask Slashdot in a plot to evade my filter. One long flamefest.
- Aha, a real tech story about non-scratchable CD's and LCD's!
- One long DVD burner advert as a repost of an AnandTech story. Yawn.
- Aha, an interesting story about OpenBSD and Theo's attempt to get WiFi firmware under useful licensing terms. O.K. Shame about the comments.
- Games. Ho hum.
- Book review. Ho hum.
So two out of ten, at least for me, and neither of those two are particularly griping.What Slashdot desperatly needs to do is to split Your Rights Online and Politics off into a totally seperate website. Don't even think of calling it Slashdot, and give it it's own domain. Then get an editor back here at Slashdot who'll actually look for and post interesting and maybe even original hard IT and science articles. Sadly I'm probably dreaming at this point.
It means that more than 0.01% of people can put a computer together.
It means that people have time for doing something more productive than toggling dip-switches in order to get the OS into RAM.
I mean, sure, folding cable doesn't excite me at all, but I want computers to be easier to use, not go back to the days of punch-cards.
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O.K, but what's the top story on technocrat.net?
The coveted Perens Endorsement goes to...
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Argh! It has the most comments out of any article on the front page as well, by a wide margin.
I'm looking for IT, science and technology. No Politics or "Rights", please!
Welcome to the new Slashdot, were folding a ribbon cable is newsworthy. I think it's time people like you and I, and the thousands of users who have been here even longer than us, faced facts and admit that Slashdot just isn't aimed at us anymore.
Geez--what a sourpuss. I have been here longer than you, and there have always been different types of stories.
There's this thing on the right side of your browser called a scrollbar. Feel free to use it.
Or, since you are trying really hard to show your eliteness, why don't you direct it towards something actually useful and write something interesting for others to read.
I would never buy a cable that claimed to have 'sheilding'. However, I might purchase one with 'shielding'. YMMV. Also, there are round cables exactly as you described: individually wrapped (not raped) wires which are grounded at both ends. Is your problem with round cables, or improperly shielded cables?
http://xkcd.com/386/