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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   
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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• Re:Think outside the plane. (Score: 3, Interesting) by cafebabe on Monday September 14 2015, @08:14AM

  by cafebabe (894) on Monday September 14 2015, @08:14AM (#236164) Journal

  You need to parallelize the desk so it doesn't become a FIFO buffer (last device added must be removed first).

  I take the opposite approach. I connect the most important devices first with the intention that the least important devices can be most easily removed. As a bonus, I always connect devices to power strips from left to right. Therefore, anyone who removes devices in my absence knows what to remove while minimizing system degradation. If you don't keep labels current then this is the next best solution.

  Meditate for wisdom and the Flying Spaghetti Monster will guide you: Fork it, sometimes you need less noodles and more balls.

  I thought that noodliness was next to godliness. Or something like that.

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