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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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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
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?
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.
Today, computer building is dominated by "tech" articles about... folded cables.
THIS ISN'T PROGRESS, PEOPLE!
- 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.