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The Art of Cable Folding

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-the-ocd-in-you dept.

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. "

14 of 269 comments (clear)

  1. News? by martingunnarsson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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! :-)

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    Martin
  2. What a shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's too bad about the Art Cable. Does anyone know why they're folding? Lack of funding, perhaps?

  3. The Art Cable Folding by fdiskne1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Art Using The Word "Of".

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    But why is the rum gone?
  4. Folding cables by ralejs · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Folding cables by The-Bus · · Score: 5, Funny

      This happens so often with me with audio cables that I always become mystified. Not to toot my own horn, but I can understand basic logic and scientific ideas. That being said, I do not naturally have an engineer's mind. I complained about this to my friend the ME one day, saying my audio cables are being angry, my telephone keeps wrapping itself tighter, my controllers are a mess.

      He shook his head and lifted up a controller by its free end (the end that connects to the console). He held it up high. To my amazement, it began to spinning. After a few seconds, it stopped spinning, and he laid it down. "There, now it won't wind up." I aws amazed at this release of Torquential Controller Energy and have since been obsessed with released the TCE from any cables I can find.

      Now, to the educated inteeligent elite of Slashdot (those apparently, with user IDs 138059 and under) the reckless childlike wonder that the hoi polloi of society attributes to these facts must be laughable. But I thought it was damn cool. Now, folding cables? Give me a folding proteins story any day over folding cables. Last I need this to be is PcCaseTechExtremeHardwareForumz.net.

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      Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.

  5. Re:The Art Worst Editing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  6. Re:Woo! by The+Dobber · · Score: 5, Funny


    When you're more concerned with cable then bandwidth management, come to the experts at Tech Zone.

  7. Folding cables. by AndyCap · · Score: 5, Funny

    You got to know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away and know when to run.

  8. Is this where computer building is going? by shoppa · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Thirty years ago, if you built a computer it meant you went out and bought transistors, resistors, chips, etched a PC board, soldered them together, and toggled in your operating system. Then you hooked up a surplus teletype and built your own floppy disk subsystem.

    Today, computer building is dominated by "tech" articles about... folded cables.

    THIS ISN'T PROGRESS, PEOPLE!

  9. Re:The Art Worst Editing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Well no, that's not really what I see on the front page. Let's see.

    • 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.
  10. Re:The Art Worst Editing by BalloonMan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Slashdot just isn't aimed at us anymore

    Amen, brother. This is one of the most pathetic articles yet. I can get more useful techie information reading the back of my cereal box.

    Can we have a referendum on Slashdot editors today? After all, it's election day in America. Cast your votes, my Slashdot brethren. Click your mouse and be counted: In or out? Toss the poseurs, or give 'em another chance?

  11. What's this? by Art+Cable · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm folding?

  12. Re:Woo! by fizban · · Score: 5, Funny

    They folded their cables. We folded their servers.

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    +1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.

  13. Ultimate Troll by pklong · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    Philip

    Signatures are broken