I Hate USB ports.

They should have made them a one way fit. I struggle for 2 minutes trying to find which way it goes in and then you think it's right but it's not, kills your arm when you gotta reach behind the PC.
 
They almost always go the same way, in my experience.

If they're parallel with the floor, put the thick side down.

If they're perpendicular to the floor, put the thick side towards the base of the motherboard.
 
Yes but you go to push it in the right way and it doesn't go in so you think it's the wrong way and vice versa. You can't remember if you use friends different devices or the socket is mirrored. Usually worse on sideways usb ports at the back of PC.
 
How hard could it have been though to design an easy interface which doesn't require a 50/50 guess to correctly allign it without close examination?

Other than that mild annoyance surely the adoption of an almost universal port has been a big step forward?
 
Yeah I suppose so, everything is USB these days they even replaced diamond necklaces. Not as bad as the PS2 ports where you had to guess too and the pins would bend
 
Namak said:
Other than that mild annoyance surely the adoption of an almost universal port has been a big step forward?
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I guess the predecessors to USB were serial and parallel. They were pretty much universal, too. My current motherboard still has a serial port. :p
 
ChileanLlama said:
...ooh nice tip _Sbradley_

..my other favourite trick is force feeding USB sticks into empty network ports... any tips for that?
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Buy a pack of Cat5 cable connectors and stick one in every unused Ethernet port, wont be able to stick a USB drive in them that way! :p
 
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