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Help! There is a Seething Mass of Snakes Under My Desk

posted by janrinok on Wednesday September 09 2015, @09:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the is-it-on-a-plane? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

I have a problem. It is a problem I try to hide out of sight and out of mind, one I try to pretend doesn't exist. But it does, and every so often it raises its ugly head to bite me. Most recently, I needed to replace an Ethernet switch as I needed more ports. As I unplugged the old switch, my monitor turned off. Why? Because under my desk I have a cable catastrophe. The mere act of unplugging the old switch had so disturbed and enraged the rat's nest of cables under my desk that in retaliation it decided to turn off my monitor.

So intertwined and confused is the mess beneath my desk that even the most mundane of acts—plugging in a new gadget, removing an old one, sometimes just even moving my feet—threatens to destroy everything.

TFA addresses the perennial problem of cable jungles. I use zip ties. What are the best solutions Soylentils have come up with, and what are their pros and cons?

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by SDRefugee on Wednesday September 09 2015, @01:52PM

    by SDRefugee (4477) on Wednesday September 09 2015, @01:52PM (#234227)

    We've lived in our current house since 1996, and my "datacenter" (our third bedroom) is afflicted with this problem.. I *still* have some sections of the 10base2 coax I used when we first moved in, along with multitudes of other power/audio/you_name_it cables. I'd always intended to crawl under the desk and kill/remove these "snakes" but there was *always* *something* ahead of it on the "priority list"... I'm now retired, since 2010, but in 2013, I took a fall, blowing out the ligaments in both knees, causing me to spend a month in the hospital, leaving me with scars on both knees, and extreme difficulty in crawling
    around under desks on my knees, like I did for nearly 25 years in my working career as a network admin/support tech.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday September 09 2015, @03:59PM

    by Snow (1601) on Wednesday September 09 2015, @03:59PM (#234282) Journal

    Don't be that guy that dies and leaves a huge cable-mess for their children to clean up! When you die, they will not remember you, but rather the mess you left behind!