Convention for marking USB plugs?
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Convention for marking USB plugs?
A while back, someone mentioned dotting the plugs and sockets with nail varnish. Good idea, but I don't want to find I've gone against convention.
Is there one?
(If not, I'd dot the empty side on the plug and tongued side on the socket.)
Is there one?
(If not, I'd dot the empty side on the plug and tongued side on the socket.)
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From: 39N 77W
Is there a convention as to which side is up on USB sockets? I think the "tongued" side of the socket is generally up. That means that the side of the plug with the USB symbol should be up.
Don't need no fingernail polish if'n I'se wear'n my glasses & the light is good.
Don't need no fingernail polish if'n I'se wear'n my glasses & the light is good.
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...someone mentioned dotting the plugs and sockets with nail varnish.
Don't need no fingernail polish if'n I'se wear'n my glasses & the light is good.
A red dot on the bit that I should still be able to see when it is in place is a great help. ( the bit with the funny arrow squiggle - which one can't always see easily )
Doesn't have to be nail varnish, but marker pen stuff wears off, and if you use a paint pot, brush, turpentine, rag etc. which are doubtless in the garage, and it's raining, then clean the brush - Oh ! you know, easier to buy a bottle of red nail varnish from the $2. shop, this comes with handy brush attached to the top and you don't have to clean it afterwards.
Apply it to one of the many keys on my key ring too, you know, the one you need all the time and can never sort out fast enough. (doesn't work in the dark tho' - a code of filed notches sorts that out.
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a code of filed notches
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Yeh, me keys is notched. Just got in from a walk at midnight, and without the notches I'd still be out there gettin' bitten by mozzies.
The plugs are marked, but the socket is on me desk - a heavy item on a metre of wire. Dots are a must, but trouble is, the Rivetess rarely wears any form of makeup, so I'll be a-rumidgin' in her stuff before she gets back next week to see what's there.
I had a really, really nutty boss when I was c 18. He was the owner of at Radio and tv shop, and we occasionally had to go out to customers together. One day after putting dots on a customer's knobs (I know!
)_he pressed the lid on the white paint down with his foot. No one noticed the circles of white on the dark red carpet, and when I told him, he said, Ooooooeeeerrrrrrrr, and drove off quickly, laughing nervously. And the call cost them seven and sixpence.
The plugs are marked, but the socket is on me desk - a heavy item on a metre of wire. Dots are a must, but trouble is, the Rivetess rarely wears any form of makeup, so I'll be a-rumidgin' in her stuff before she gets back next week to see what's there.
I had a really, really nutty boss when I was c 18. He was the owner of at Radio and tv shop, and we occasionally had to go out to customers together. One day after putting dots on a customer's knobs (I know!
)_he pressed the lid on the white paint down with his foot. No one noticed the circles of white on the dark red carpet, and when I told him, he said, Ooooooeeeerrrrrrrr, and drove off quickly, laughing nervously. And the call cost them seven and sixpence.
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From: The Smaller Antipode
Yeah, I'm all for dots on knobs ( if you see what I mean ). Currently have acquaintance with three aeroplanes with different models of radios, each needs the on/off/volume switch to be turned to a different position to achieve the optimum volume, so having ascertained that, the handy bottle of nail polish puts a dot at the - say - 10'0 clock position. No thinking which hairyplane this is today, just turn the knob on and place the red dot at the 10'0 clock position and and Bob's Yer Uncle.
Mrs ExS would murder me if I even looked at her make-up collection, the local $2.00 shop has a variety of colours that she wouldn't be seen dead in, but which serve many purposes -red for the key to the Port fuel cap, green for the Starboard one ( yes, they're different on one aeroplane ) and I also use blue (yes, you can buy blue nail varnish ) for some purpose which presently escapes me but which I felt was important at the time.
The KISS method ( Keep It Simple, Stupid )
Mrs ExS would murder me if I even looked at her make-up collection, the local $2.00 shop has a variety of colours that she wouldn't be seen dead in, but which serve many purposes -red for the key to the Port fuel cap, green for the Starboard one ( yes, they're different on one aeroplane ) and I also use blue (yes, you can buy blue nail varnish ) for some purpose which presently escapes me but which I felt was important at the time.
The KISS method ( Keep It Simple, Stupid )
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Just looked at an HP Pavilion 640n, and the front USB has the tongue at the top - However, the USB symbol is below the plug. 
Dots it must be.
Dots it must be.
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From: Malkin Tower
I think someones got hold of the wrong end of the stick.....the only reason for marking USB leads is so you can tell which socket you've pulled them out of. If you replace them in the same socket sometimes it makes life easier re driver installation. Some items (cameras are especially prone to this) can play up if you swap around the sockets you plug them in.
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I marked the top of my memory sticks,ie which way up they should be inserted with a red CD marker pen after I buggad up one of the front USB sockets in me old puter case,I have four mem sticks only one has light on the top but it dont come on until it is plugged in which is stupid,all of them are featureless so without looking at the plug end there is no way of telling specially if your groping around the back of a desktop case
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