Illustrated guide to computer cables

[mdlbear]

Giz Explains: An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need

We put up with too many cables. There are at least four different kinds of USB plugs, two kinds of FireWire and like a million different ways to connect something to TV or monitor. Modern gadget life can be kind of retarded in this way. Why not one kind of cable, or just a couple? I don't know. But until everyone gets on the same appendage-to-hole scheme, in the meantime, you can use this: an illustrated guide to pretty much every kind of cable you will see in current gadgets and what it's used for (unless, you know, Sony springs a new one on us overnight, which is honestly possible).

Just in case you were wondering what all that spaghetti at the back of your desk is doing there. Not to mention an image that looks suspiciously like the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Comments

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

OK - I almost feel stupid. Turns out the answer is you hold the T key down on the computer you're loading from when you start it. I'd feel even stupider if I'd had any way of knowing that before someone told me.

Now I'll be able to print "Shut Off Yer *&^#^* Cell Phone" signs for the hallway at Denvention, but phrased more politely.

[mdlbear]

Knew it was something like that. I vaguely remember seeing it somewhere in the MacBook Pro's user manual, under a heading like "transferring data from an older machine".