Caught in cable hell December 21, 2007
Posted by Jörg Michael inI've always had two PCs as my home setup. With all the cabling mess that involves. Just imagine all the cables required for the phone lines with DSL, two PCs with all the gimmicks. You need speakers, every PDA used to require its own proprietary cable. But throw in a serially attached IR device to remove the PDA cable. And a joystick. And some other crap. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Cable hell. You are in a twisty maze of cables, all with different connectors. Cable Hell 1.0
Here in Cologne, I only had my laptop and WiFi. Just one cable and I was set. Well, plus a mouse sometimes.
Until I figured that a webcam might be cool. And and external USB hard disk (3.5", external power supply). And maybe a USB TV receiver. Oh, and a small 2.1 speaker set to make music sound a bit more like music.
What have I got? A twisty maze of cable, all with the same connector.
Cable Hell 2.0