I hate cables. Power cables, data cables, hubs, splitters, connectors, I hate them. I feel like a monkey everytime I have to plug my nifty ultra portable laptop to 5-7 cables in order to start working normally. After that it looks like an octopus.
Today we had another intersting problem with cables - we had to buy some ups power cables for the new servers. Since we have offices next door to Ljubljana’s largest shopping mall we went for a walk to the first shop, but turned out they don’t have them. Nor the next one, or the third and fourth. Didn’t matter if it was computers shop, electronics shop or home store.
It took us an hour and a half to buy those three ’standard’ power cables. The only cables that are more or less trully standardized in the World (as long as you don’t use Lenovo lapotops). Now I will fear the day, when I will have to go buy another ’standard mini usb’ cable. *sigh*

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