On Sep 9, 2006, at 3:01 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
Yes, they can be very annoying. A new firewire disk enclosure I recently bought has one for disk access (the power light is a less annoying green) and it's way too bright.
I have a KGear USB2/FW enclosure that has *four* bright blue LEDs on its face, which is bad enough, but they flicker on disk access -- it's quite a light show. I folded a sheet of heavy card-stock around the front of the drive to tone it down.
I consider this business of putting ultra-bright LEDs on the front of everything just one more step towards the annoying computer consoles in Star Trek TOS, where every time they touched the screen, it went "bee-do-weep!", "biddle-doop", "blee-doo-wah?" or "chip-chip-chip."
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