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I'm a firm believer that the field of biotech needs a new, younger generation to add new ways of thought to the field. It's always the younger generation who make the breakthroughs because they are not hindered by old ways of thinking.

Yeah, and you'll need a team of dedicated hobbits to buy all that shit and put it together.

Also, you'll probably need a Kandalf case to put it all in.

I found this article http://www.overclockercafe.com/Articles/DDR_vs_DDR 2/ which basically shows that DDR2 is the same or ever so slightly better than DDR at the same clock speeds, with the same mobo, but DDR2 can go to much higher clockspeeds (though their mobo couldnt run DDR2 at higher than 533Mhz). Looks like the nanosecond or whatever of extra latency really isnt much of a problem =p At least for the games they were testing

This finally answers the question, how far will modders go in their hardware and lighting fetishes? I'm waiting for people to start chroming and putting windows into the chips in their systems.

I've decided to go the anti-modder route, an all black case with NO windows or lights (except for indicator lights). I just use it for, *gasp*, computing.

Ok, I admit Lian-Li's case aquarium is pretty cute.

One expensive route is going to the local book store and just getting your items on tape. you've probably gone you yor local books store and have been frustrated by either the selection or price.

I've found that my local public library has a great selection of fiction, and it's virtually free. Recently I listened to a Clive Cussler book. It's just a little geeky with some action, adventure and women thrown in. Dune audio books will get you all the way across the country. I just enjoyed Dune House Atreides (which was 6 tapes)! I had much fun with the very large selection of Star Wars audio books (not the real episodes, but all of the in-between stories). If you ever fdo buy an audio book, don't let it sit in a box somewhere. Donate it to your local library so that others can enjoy it!

A good source for digital content may be Audible.com. For example, I just noticed they have all of the books from my favorite Ender Wiggins series by Orson Scott Card. If they have all of those books on MP3, I can imagine what else they'd have. For a tech geek, try a one-year subscription to "Technology Review"! You'd download them to your PC and then transfer them to your MP3 player or iPod or whatever and broadcast to your stereo as long as the batteries last (buy rechargable batteries!).

Some (like me) haven't made the bold leap into the 21st century and still have a stereo/tape player as their primary audio device in their car. I recently found a PC-to-tape device being advertised and reviewed. It looks great, but I don't have such a disposable income that'd warrant such luxury. I'll probably jury-rig some software to connect a cheap wireless Linux PC around my house to my stereo and record that way.

-ez

My guess is that he has something like one of these. The only disadvantage to a fanless power supply (besides cost) is that the computer usually still needs an exhaust fan to get rid of the heat in the case. But with his setup, I guess he doesn't need it.

Heat pipes still use water as the cooling medium, albeit in thicker pipes and under a slight vacuum. I bought a Thermaltake SilentTower to replace an Alpha PAL 8942 with a Vantec Tornado fan (A.K.A. a vacuum cleaner) and I'm pretty satisfied. It keeps the CPU way cooler than a passive ever could, and I didn't have to go through all the crap like when I built my friend's machine with a Thermaltake Aquarius.

As they have been around for a while, there are plenty of other sites with pictures if you want to see what it looks like. (The site listed no longer works)

-Cosmo

Difficult to tell from the article, but the liquid cooling system looks similar to that found in Shuttle XPCs The article says that OS X can vary the flow of the liquid though. Very nice though, looks like they have thought about noise, which is good.

Been done already my friend.

Please note : this is

not flamebait or trolling!

Well, if Anonymous Coward says so, it must be true.

Well, I'm willing to yield that you're not trolling, but for some reason have ignored the approximately three hundred previous posts on the subject...

I honestly just want to know - why would you want to boot Linux on an XBox?

It will vary from person to person. Here is just a handful of the many, many possible reasons why. You might not agree with all of them, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that the person who believes in them agrees with it.

1. Because you can. Geeks like pushing things to their limits. I'm sure many of the geeks involved love their X-Boxes and just want to mess with them because they can. The same reason people put jumping hydralics on their cars, the same reason people put neon tubes in their computer cases, the same reason people recreate Star Wars in ASCII, the same reason people climb mountains. It's a challenge in an area they know. It's a chance to match wits, indirectly, against Microsoft's presumably smart security people. People often set strange challenges for themselves, let them enjoy themselves.

2. It tweaks Microsoft. Some geeks just love the opportunity to thumb their noses at Microsoft and this is a chance. You get to do something Microsoft really doesn't want you to do. You get a box valued at something like $300 for $200, subsidized by Microsoft. That gives some people a kick. It's not harmful (in the way, say, vandalizing Microsoft's property would), so what's the harm?

3. For some specialized tasks it's a suitable box. Sure, you can build a similarlly powered box for a similar price, but you'd be hard pressed to build a box with a stereo component form factor and as quiet as the X-Box. It would make a good network media player for videos and music. It would make a good station for running things like MAME or other emulators. It's not an awesome deal (and as technology continues to advance, it will be less of a deal), but for now it's a pretty good deal.

4. To play illegally copied games. Sure it's illegal, and I'm sure you would never do something like that. But some people don't care and want to.

For all the hype in the media about running Linux on an XBox, why isn't there similar press about running Linux on, say, a Nintendo Cube (or, does that one already run Linux? or Unix?) I believe that Playstation already runs Linux... right?

Indeed, Sony did release a version of Linux for the Playstation 2. The initial rumors were announced on Slashdot, the initial announcement made it onto Slashdot, and the ship date got announced on Slashdot. We got an in depth review, and an annoucement of a new distribution for PS2 Linux. That seems to have been reasonably well covered. Why no more announcements? Well, given that Sony handed the community a working version, there wasn't as much incentive to spend time hacking on it. Also, it was much harder to port given the lack of a hard drive. Notably, Sony's Linux for PS2 includes a hard drive.

Linux on the Gamecube? People are interested. The lack of a hard dr

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> Unfortunately, it really needs a lot of fans to move air around. I have nine fans in mine,

Yeap, they got TONS of room. I have 3 fans inside mine.

Two words dude: rounded-cables !

http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/Rounded%20C ables/