{"id":5381,"date":"2013-10-25T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2013-10-19T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T19:05:01","slug":"ugly-cables-around-my-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5381","title":{"rendered":"Ugly Cables Around My Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supposedly life is becoming more wireless. Not so! Granted, I’m more high tech than most, but looking around my office, I see things like the disasters shown on this page.
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Figure 1.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Figure 1 shows a new USB hub I just purchased, which immediately sucked up four USB connections. Please tell me how I can make this look less ugly? Fortunately, like all the images on this page, the knotted ganglia of cables are out of eyesight.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2.<\/p><\/div>\n

Figure 2 is kind of a cheat. It’s my networking “closet.” That’s where all the wired networking from the office, as well as the rest of the house, come into a single location. Everything gets patched together and then sent up to the router and eventually the modem. Figure 2 shows the cabinet open. Normally it’s closed. Thank goodness.<\/p>\n

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Figure 3.<\/p><\/div>\n

The great thing about the cables shown in Figure 3 is that they’re hidden behind a cabinet I built. I have no idea where the cables go or which cable is which. Only a few of them are color-coded. It’s this kind of monstrosity that I have nightmares about having to reconnect. If I ever move, I’m just going to slice through that Gordian knot with a meat clever.<\/p>\n

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Figure 4.<\/p><\/div>\n

Figure 4 illustrates how poorly I planned my wired networking. There are so many computers in this one branch that I needed a hub to connect them all to the wired networking. As long as the computer is shoved gently against the wall, I don’t need to see the mess.<\/p>\n

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Figure 5.<\/p><\/div>\n

Figure 5 is a bit embarrassing. As I went hunting for cables, I looked under my son’s computer station. That’s cat hair plus probably whatever the lad wore in from outside. I generally vacuum under the computer stations once a month or whenever I see something as atrocious as what you’re looking at in Figure 5. Ick.<\/p>\n

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Figure 6.<\/p><\/div>\n

Figure 6 shows that even when you have a wireless keyboard and mouse, plus a small footprint PC, you can still get an ugly knot of cables. The printer’s power brick (lower right in Figure 6) doesn’t help any.<\/p>\n

I realize that my wire expos\u00e9 may not rise to the terror-inducing levels of some computers, but still: Is the 21st Century the wireless century? I dare think not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time to take a peek at some of the uglier aspects of the 21st Century high tech existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5391,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions\/5391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}