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Grim in natures way (9)
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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SATURNINE ?
Way - anagram indicator
In natures - anagram of SATURNINE
Saturnine: Gloomy, taciturn, dour
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wow - I hope that's correct
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It is
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yep you are up tomorrow - well done - did you look it up or get it yourself ? nice little clue I thought
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Was a good clue; having the "tur" helped it come to mind!
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I know but you can almost always work anagrams out - I'll have to try harder
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"Quote: It deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
Sometimes just "glazing over" a bit and looking at the letters, you can read them; (even if first or last letters are "wrong"). A technique my mother taught me was just to write all the letters out in a jumble (not a line, randomly but fairly close) then your brain tries to "follow" the letters to make sense of them. Sometimes seems to work for me!
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Ogre's lead in fair fight (5)
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Joust
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yep 
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...dealing with a rats nest of wires with their computer setup?
This evening I've tasked myself with tearing down and rebuilding my entire computer setup to make it use the space more efficiently and to have a more organized approach.
This is going to be no easy feat. And I won't have internet access during the tear-down and rebuild, except for my phone.
Has anyone else successfully tamed the tangle of wires?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I've started switching all to bluetooth (printer, keyboard, mouse), wifi, and HDMI (usb as a last resort) which has cleaned up my cabling somewhat. Although right now I'm stuck on ethernet because my wifi dongle isn't working with Ubuntu this time (was last time *shrug*)
Real programmers use butterflies
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Hey, great idea!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Nope I'm scared to go in, don't know if I'll every make it back out.
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen, you may learn something new.
--Dalai Lama
JaxCoder.com
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I know the feeling. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Erm ... well ... no.
I really must do something about it all, but ... the trouble is that I used to have a UPS which had IEC female, so when it died I used standard IEC lead to connect the IEC males that went to the kit instead of ripping it all out and wiring it properly. So I have a rats-nest of mains, another of CAT5, another of USB, ...
And a sh*t load of dust that I don't dare go near because I know something will stop working if I do, and it's dark down there ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Is it a small UPS or something like a rack mount unit?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It was a "small" one - floor standing, bloody heavy, Chinese, FVQ*
* Failed Very Quickly. About a year, I think - I did a powerfail test and it was absolutely fine, except when it went to internal power it turned itself off ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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IKEA has the "tidy cabling" kits. One includes this ribbed tubing with a split down the middle which you can use to lay in a number of cables instead of tying them.
Some big box hardware stores include metal / plastic channels for cabling that is more permanent while still fitting in with the base boards / decor.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
modified 26-Apr-20 18:13pm.
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Is that what it's called, "tidy cabling?" I just searched those keywords on the IKEA site and nothing resembling what you describe.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Montera, Signum, Rabalder and Fixa.
There are probably more, but those are the one I find now.
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Sorry: Cable management & accessories
Or "cabling" would have worked. I was para-phrasing 
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Split loom tubing / corrugated sleeving . McMaster Carr in the US, or your local Industrial electrical supply. Spiral wrap ( sleeving ) works very well, but at 2 turns per inch on small diameters it's slow. The zipper stuff can be nice.
But, I'd just use velcro, 3/8" wide roll cut the ends on a diagonal - it makes it easier to wrap and to remove. And you get to tie to legs... to hold things in place. ( We cheated and used large binder clips to dress cables to the metal desk. )
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I am curious about which kinds of cables you are troubled with.
"In the old days" we had no sort of buses: The printer had its LPT cable, the modem its COM cable, the scanner its proprietary format cable, the keyboard its DIN- og OS/2-style cable, the mouse either of COM, OS/2 or proprietary cable... It was also common to plug the power cable to the screen into the power supply of the PC.
Nowadays, there is a single USB cable to a hub where you plug in both printer, scanner, external disks, PC speakers/microphone and external webcam (for stationary PCs). Keyboard and mouse cables are gone; they have been wireless for many years. USB memory sticks go in the socket on the PC front panel (or,if that is unavailable, the socket on the left hand edge of the screen).
My PC has one USB cable, one network cable and one screen cable. I do have a USB WiFi-adapter that could have been plugged into the USB hub, to keep the number of cables to the PC down, but it wouldn't be suitable: The PC-to-hub cable goes through a hole in the wall, and the router connection is on the PC side of the wall, not the hub side.
So I think of the spaghetti bowl as something of the past. For me, USB made a revolution that turned night into day, quite a few years ago.
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