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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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voodoo'd that ass right out of commission. Mirrors?
Zero replies and slashdotted. Well done, Tech Zone. That must be some hot server setup you have their. ;)
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
Besides, folding IDE cables an art? Ptoii! Terminating SCSI cables is an art, this is just the locals peddling handicraft to tourists. What is this, national "Bend a cable, get on Slashdot"-day?
Money for nothing, pix for free
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!?
That's too bad about the Art Cable. Does anyone know why they're folding? Lack of funding, perhaps?
do you mean "The Art Of Cable Folding"???
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?
well, on a more serious note, and as it is probably covered by the article, I set up quite some server boxes and countless PCs, and never had problems or issues with cables.
I however, had some problems to "loose" cables installed by previous techies.
I only experienced PCs with SCSI disks (or cables, for that matter) creating a somewhat noise airflow.
Or, worse, they stalled the air so the heat dissipation wasnt fully functional.
But I dont expect this to be a problem for "normal" PCs.
Powerful is he who overpowers his temptations.
The Art Using The Word "Of".
But why is the rum gone?
But it's a bit lossy.
I've seen worse... like bad grammar.
Fold your cable wrong and you get nasty reflections from the corners. Careful there!
Cables are living organisms. I fold them neatly and put them in a box. The next time I open the box its a complete mess.
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?
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.
Maybe the editor meant "The Art: Cable Folding", or "The Art Cable, Folding". It would have been nice if the editor had taken some more time proofing, then the poor bastard who runs the linked site could have finished his coffee before having to extinguish the remains of his server.
Nothing is worst than a bunch of dangling cables inside your computer case.
...except maybe your spelling?
I kid, I kid...
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Here are some tricks I use to fold and hide cable in my pc.
First, any ribbon cables usually go from motherboard to drive, and not a very long distance. This leaves a lot of slack ribbon. Fold up the slack and tuck it into a space in-between drives or in an emtpy 3.5" drive bay.
Circle around back. Most modern cases have a pull out try with the motherboard on it. Then there is a metal frame and then there is another piece of metal which is the right side panel of the case. There are many things that need to go from the top of the case to the bottom Such as power cables for your front intake fan and such. Route these wires in-between the metal frame and the right side panel. Nobody can see them back there unless it is an all acrylic case.
The emtpy 5.25" drive bays, if any, are a great place to put extra wiring. My PSU has many many more wires than I use, so far. So I take them all and just put them in the empty space under my dvd burner. The ribbon cable for the burner also travels into this space and then out of it again just a couple inches from the ide plug on the motherboard. Think of it as a bucket to put unused wires in where nobody can see them.
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You got to know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away and know when to run.
Today, computer building is dominated by "tech" articles about... folded cables.
THIS ISN'T PROGRESS, PEOPLE!
The server has been slashdotted, so maybe someone who got to it early can tell me:
"Do Voodoo Cable Folds involve a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle?"
Since I always compile everything with -funroll-loops I can't roll and fold my wires. Electrons do miss the curve if cables are bent too much you know !!!!
Then, my office near the stairs, and I see NO point in preventing natural accidents like an IT manager falling down.
BOFH
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.
My Journal
I'm folding?
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
I always though brat was worst
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
This story could be the ultimate Slashdot troll, think about it:
1. Put a worthless story up on the front page.
2. Add grammatical mistakes.
2. Turn the server off once it makes it to the front page.
Watch as the worthless, pointless discussion racks up posts 99.9% of which are on the 3 subjects above.
Philip
Signatures are broken
If slashdot is stale, no doubt the new hangout place is kept secret to keep the wannabes that supposedly infect slashdot from following.
:-)
Wonder why no-one told me...
Sam
blog.sam.liddicott.com
yeah, poor Art get's a lot of that ...
Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do!
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.
Nothing is worst than a bunch of dangling cables inside your computer case.
Are you sure there aren't maybe at least a few things worst[sic] than a bunch of dangling cables? Fire? Flood? Prostate cancer?
Are dangling cables really such a travesty? Do we need to hold a telethon or something?
Proverbs 21:19
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.
I'm a part-time audio nerd, but I manage a fairly good-sized PA system (24ch/4buss mixer, 800w mains, 250w monitors, for those who care)
The trick is, I was trained by a leftie. I'm right handed, but I learned to coil cables left-handed.
A musician friend once "helped" me by coiling all the mic cables. He's a climber, so he knows the over-under method, but when I tossed a cable it came out a completely twisted mess.
When I complained, he pointed out that he's also a volunteer firefighter, and there's a method he knows for coiling ropes such that, when thrown, they have a knot every 12 inches. "If you prefer, I can coil 'em up that way."
He's not allowed to help me anymore.
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Hey!!! the parentheses are good for something