Any Cases With Front-Facing Expansion Slots?

owenferguson asks: "I'm sick and bloody tired of futzing around with ports (USB, sound, video, firewire, serial) that come out of the back of my mid-tower case. Does anyone know of a case that allows you to mount the motherboard 'backwards,' that is, with the expansion slots and various ports situated beneath the drive bays, facing foreward? I'm planning to build one myself, but if there's one already on the market, I'll probably just buy it."

Comments

Yes and no

[itwerx]

Dunno 'bout cases (rather doubt there's sufficient market), but you could have an expansion chassis facing forward easily enough to get the cards around.
Or, cheaper but more difficult (due to having to do your own cabling) you could use an external drive chassis the same way.

Re:Yes and no

[vax]

Ive seen some computers with the ports in the front(eg that soundblaster case and i think tigerdirect.com has one too..) but another option would be mounting usb ports in a 5 1/4 drive bay so that usb could go in through the front.. other than that i dont plug much else in and out frequently. also there are various switch boxes if you would rather have all the ps2 and com ports controlled on top of your desk. (it is a box with a switch on the front and in the back everything from ps2 ports to com ports to monitor ports etc.. also useful for multiple boxes with one keyboard and mouse (thats why i use mine for) just a thought.
VAX

Who needs a desk - Use a table without sidewalls

[innocent_white_lamb]

I have my computer on a large banquet table; the case sits sideways under the table with the "back" of the case facing out the edge of the table. It works well, and the table is large enough to accommodate my 19" monitor and all of the other papers, books, tea cups and so on.

Another solution

[tunah]

Just put the stupid case backwards!

BTW, does anyone know of a case that allows you to mount cd drives, floppy drives etc on the back of the machine?

Re:Another solution

[Anonymous Coward]

You could use external CD/floppy drives, or just remove the drives from the case and sit them on top. The power/IDE cables could come out the hole where the drive used to be, assuming they're long enough.

Re:Another solution

[Anonymous Coward]

BTW, does anyone know of a case that allows you to mount cd drives, floppy drives etc on the back of the machine?


no, but i know of one that allows you mount them on the bottom of the machine.

Re:Another solution

[Graff]

does anyone know of a case that allows you to mount cd drives, floppy drives etc on the back of the machine?

Sure, it's called FireWire, iLink, or IEEE 1394...

Patch panels...

[Howie]

Depending on how many free drive bays you have, there are certainly drive bay mounting panels to present most of the common things you'd want to plug and unplug regularly - audio, USB, 1394 and serial.

An external one (intended for laptops, but what the heck) is made by Mobility Electronics. There was an internal one featured on Scan's Today Only page the other day, with temperature monitoring and all sorts - I'm pretty sure it was made by ASUS, although I can't find it on their site.

I've seen several cases with front panels like this, too. Even my gf's cruddy e-machines PC does that. Coolmaster case with front USB (and optional 1394 IIRC).

Re:Patch panels...

[billn]

I have one of the external Mobility USB hubs, and they're fairly decent. Driver support is in the generic area, meaning usually stable. The one I have replicates PS2-style mouse and keyboard, a single db9 serial (great for serial PDA cradles), 4 rear facing USB ports, and one forward facing USB port.

They're excellent for the exact use mentioned above, and you don't have to deal with the extra tangle of cables involved with fully reversing your motherboard (video, etc..).

Extension Cables

[HeeG]

Just buy some extension cables approx 50cm you will need high quality cables for Firewire / USB / LAN and Video if running at a high res. This will also releve "wear and tear" on the ports.

Re:Extension Cables

[keefebert]

I agree. I got extension cables, good enough quality for what I do, and then wrapped them around and taped them to the side of my box. Then they are all right there when I need them. As for USB, I have a USB hub that sits on top of the box, so all of those ports are in the front also.

Re:Extension Cables

[Doppler00]

There are no such thing as USB extension cables. The USB specification warn against extension cables (use a USB hub instead). Also, monitor cables with extensions start to lose some signal strength or add interferance that can distort the picture.

Re:Extension Cables

[HeeG]

There is such a thing as USB extension cables however the total length may not be over 3 meters .... they are available ..... as I am looking at it .... get the facts right B4 posting!

Options...

[ArcticChicken]

These guys were mentioned in a previous AskSlashdot article. Looks kinda neat, doesn't it?

Another simpler option (USB only) can be found at Antec's site.

Thought of Rack Mount?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're after a rack mount case, then a Spin Server Case might be what you're after.

Re:Thought of Rack Mount?

[Rick the Red]

Someone mod the parent up! It's the best solution so far.

Cases

[Anonymous Coward]

You can buy a case with some of that stuff on the front. I'm currently choosing parts to build a new PC, and I saw some cases like that a few days agi. Picture. This one has audio ports, volume knob, game port, 2x USB, and firewire ports on the front. Products. More info.

Of course, I've never bought one of these cases, so I can't endorse them.

Sorry for the anonymous post. Slashdot seems to have lost my old password and is refusing to mail me the new one.

ccg

Re:Cases

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, what shit-for-brains moderator marked this redundant? Do these people actually read the fucking topic? It's a fucking perfect answer for the guy's question. Jesus.

Just a thought...

[Xilope]

Why don't you just turn your case around?

Re:Just a thought...

[SuiteSisterMary]

Then your various removable media drives are facing the wrong direction.

Re:Just a thought...

[Killio]

So use an external CD drive, no? Just put it on top of the case...

Re:Just a thought...

[SuiteSisterMary]

At that point, why not use an external breakout box? There's lots that fit in a standard drive bay. Besides, I've got a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW drive. Start getting those external, and it starts to get a bit expensive, as well as easier to knock over when the kids are running around.

Not exactly, but...

[ThatComputerGuy]

there are plenty of cases like this one at Colorcase.

It has both USB and speaker/mic ports on the front. I have bought some of these cases before and am very satisfied. Just use the supplied cable extensions, and you're ready to go.

$20 solution

[phillymjs]

CyberGuys carries this, which will take up a drive bay and an expansion slot, but gives you front-panel connections for FireWire, game, headphone out, speaker out, microphone, and two USB connectors, plus volume control. Seems kinda like a kludgey solution to me, but it will do what you're looking for.

~Philly

Re:$20 solution

[gmhowell]

Actually, it doesn't even have to take
up an explansion slot per se. It will take a
slot from the case, but if there are more slots
on the case than the mobo, then you plunk it in
one of those slots, that has nothing behind it.

I'm looking at two two-year old cases (ATX) and
neither has an extra slot, but there are several
cases at work like this (I think they are AT
style cases). The white box shops tended to stuff
parallel ports and serial ports in 'em. But, you
can mount those into knockouts rather easily.

Satellite System

[Anonymous Coward]

If I recall correctly, Big Blue played around with Satellite systems at one stage. (If they didn't, they bloody well should!)

The concept;

Stick your computer on the floor or wherever, plug in one thick cable that connects to an external box not much bigger than an external CD-Rom.

The External box houses the CD-Rom drive, floppy drive, keyboard/mouse connectors, Audio connectors, USB and the like.

"What's that on your desk? A Game Cube?!"

Re:Satellite System

[Cid Highwind]

Indeed they did. My folks have a computer like that. Not sure exactly when it was made, but it has a Pentium 200MHz, so it's not very recent.

I got tired of this, too...

[cr0sh]

My solution?

I got a six foot folding table (they make larger ones if you need it), put it in the middle of the room, and put my computers underneath it. That way, if I need to change connections, etc - I just go around to the back and fiddle with them. No more dragging machines out, etc.

To get power to the machines, I ran an extension cord along the ceiling, then down to the desk, and wrapped it with split loom tubing. Same for network connections, etc. You can also run the cords along the floor, and use those rubber floor cover thingies. Ideally, you would have a raised floor - I might do that next time.

So far, it has worked great for me, much better than the desk I had!

Re:I got tired of this, too...

[dr00g911]

Precisely my solution.

From the early-90's beginnings of DV editing, I realized that I was going behind my workstations/beta decks/etc. at least twice a day... and up against a wall, that just lags.

My solution was to simply face the desk outward from the wall, or (more usually) set the desk two feet from the wall to allow walking space.

Helps a bit with heat dispersal from montiors and the like as well, FWIW.

--dr00g

Ridge Spin Server cases

[thogard]

I've got three of these. They are rack mount to help keep thing neat but you could put them anywhere including on sliding rails. They have everything put the power out the front. The company also loans equipment to the local Linux Users Group.

The Dremel way...

[LaserBeams]

Cut the case in half right above the motherboard bay and below the drive bays. Flip the bottom half around, and weld/rivet/duct tape it back together. I'm not sure if the side panels would go back on, but it seems like it would work, otherwise.

Taco-snotting all over your CASE!!

[The WIPO Troll]

THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.12 $

Why have I been receiving emails from CmdrTaco, in which he seems to be speaking in some kind of code language?

Whenever Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda gets bored (and who wouldn't, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the Slashdot database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual orgies with him. How he determines this is anyone's guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with the letter P in it, you're in trouble.

So this time, he found you. Lucky you.

CmdrTaco's code language is relatively easy to decipher. He prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo to evade the watchful (but relatively stupid) eye of Slashdot's parent corporation, VA Software. CmdrTaco's "Commander" is, of course, his penis -- a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants that only comes out in the presence of other men or at the beck and call of CmdrTaco's own right hand. His "Taco bells" are the shriveled testes that droop beneath his Commander, and his "Taco sauce" is his, well, jizz. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means when he asks you to "ring his Taco bells" or "taste his gourmet Taco sauce."

Lastly, there is a practice he refers to as "Taco-snotting" and the more shocking "circle-snot."

Good Lord. What is "Taco-snotting?"

"Taco-snotting" is the term used by CmdrTaco to refer to the practice of sucking the penis of a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumored to prefer rape), then blowing the semen out his nose onto his partner's (victim's) face and body. A long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."

A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and Taco-snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum -- spooging their jizz-snot all over each other's faces and pasty, white bodies, until they're covered head to toe with each other's man juice. This can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.

To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The whole group then proceeds to snot each other's spunk and whip each other's pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

Hopefully.

You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and he's probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube. There's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTaco's sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot." Maybe he'll ignore you. Probably not.

I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?

Unfortunately, yes. I first met CmdrTaco at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some "gourmet Tacos," but when I got there, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his "Commander" out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm... then he snotted my own milky-white jizz back onto my face, into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, "Open Sauce" -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the twisted snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his "monolithic kernel," and Anal Cox used his "network stack" in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice in my defenseless body. Michael was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about "all those Censorware freaks out to get him."

How did you finally escape, you ask? After about 16 hours of countless homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant; I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads -- I could've easily been drowned!

That's horrible. Does "Taco-snotting" have anything to do with CmdrTaco's "special taco"?

No, that's a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. CmdrTaco is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):

You may be wondering what CmdrTaco's "special taco" is. You will be wishing that you hadn't been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his "special taco", CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim.

After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTaco's nefarious sexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victim's ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved.

Completely different, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that CmdrTaco is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a paedophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual paedophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called " Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little-boy slaves: a vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boy's urine (forced out of them with a pair of pliers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then squirting and slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained-up and naked bodies. If he's in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag and just squirt it from his ass onto his boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.

As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

...Are you getting hard writing this?

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.

________________________________________
READER COMMENTS

1. Fucking hilarious too bad it didnt get a 5:Funny (Score:-1, Offtopic)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.02 19:01 (#2644105)
   
   this is good shit man

2. Re:Taco-snotting@Home! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
   by Dark_Cobra87 on 2001.12.01 23:03 (#2642180)
   
   Oops, forgot to check that Taco-snot option...

3. Re:Fuck Linux! Fuck him hard! (Score:-1)
   by Fecal Troll Matter on 2001.12.01 20:55 (#2641791)
   
   Mmmmmmm, Taco Sauce...
   
   Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)

4. Look (Score:-1)
   by ArchieBunker on 2001.12.01 20:19 (#2641679)
   
   I love trolling but this shit is getting old, fast. At least start mixing them up a little bit. How about the 'How OSM was Freed' series?
   http://www.naawp.org/

5. Re:Congratulations! You have been WIPO'd!! (Score:0)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.01 8:37 (#2640602)
   
   Stop posting this! I've got hangover and Taco Snotting doesn't make me feel any better.
   
   I'm really glad that Taco Snotting is illegal here in Europe.

6. Re:Snot me baby, one more time! (Score:0)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.30 1:01 (#2634213)
   
   Get a life you loser! Don't you have anything better to do than insult CmdrTaco and the gay community? We are not perverts, we are human beings just like you. So give it a rest!

7. Re:Hello, perdida!!! Won't you snot my face tonigh (Score:-1)
   by perdida on on 2001.11.27 14:13 (#2618764)
   
   Shut up you asshole.
   
   I am not great, I am merely adequate. I live in adequacy.

8. Go back to Russia. (Score:0)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.26 22:22 (#2616035)
   
   You weiner trool!

9. Re:The Taco-Snotting FAQ Rides Again!! (Updated so (Score:0)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.25 9:14 (#2609574)
   
   try to find a pic of actual "taco-snotting"! fucking funny it would be! so go to gay porn sites day in and day out until you find a man giving another man a blowjob that has jizz coming out of his nose and mouth. by the way, keep up the good work

10. Re:Snotting another first!! (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 12:18 (#2603370)
    
    WIPO, this is getting waaaay old, either drop it or revise it.... there've been no updates for days now...
    
    CmdrTaco

11. Re:It's Taco SPAM!!! (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.22 17:28 (#2600815)
    
    A truly excellent and very humourous troll indeed!
    However...
    
    To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie often join in, dressed in black Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves.
    
    Black GeStaPo uniforms? The GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei - Secret State Police) wore civilian clothes (although there are reports on them occasionally using Allgemeine SS uniforms in occupied territories).
    
    I seriously doubt that perverted individuals like CmdrTaco et al would have the good taste to ever wear the outstandingly beautiful black Waffen SS uniforms! Please update the FAQ accordingly.
    • Re:It's Taco SPAM!!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 4:06 (#2602610)
      
      Actually, it appears you are both wrong!! Ah ha!! I think our boy WIPO was thinking of the Allgemeine SS uniforms. Waffen SS were grey.

12. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:49 (#2594325)
    
    oh yeah, you say you have masturbated only 2 times to this post. well, by the time it takes for me to get through reading it, i usually end up masturbated 5 to 6 times, 10 to 12 if i have the goatse.cx homepage loaded up and am looking at it side by side with the slashdot page. my keyboard, hands, mouse, monitor, the underside of my desk and around the floor under my desk are cum soaked and sticky with the man smell i know and love.

13. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:41 (#2594311)
    
    for version 2 you should make a total re-write of the cod...errr...text and add some details about cmdrtaco and the homo-gang's happenings with their coworkers (osdn?) and all of the gay revelry they enjoy and promote. by the way, did i just see cmdrtaco on television promoting the nax hair removal system? i guess after using vaseline in and around his ass he grew quite a ponytail and it had to be removed somehow...ouch!

14. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:-1, Troll)
    by TRoLLaXoR on 2001.11.21 3:59 (#2594191)
    
    WIPO, do you notice how few comments you get for anything you write/post/spam nowadays?
    
    -Trollaxor

15. Jon-Katz docking (Score:-1)
    by sales_worldwide on 2001.11.20 11:53 (#2588488)
    
    You forgot to mention Jon Katz's "docking" games, where he places his chopper head to head with another chap, and rolls the other guys foreskin over his own circumcised end ("docking"), providing him with fantasies of actually having his own forskin ...
    "Making linux GPL was the best thing I ever did" - Torvalds. I'd hate to see the worst thing...

16. Re:Snotting a first! (Score:-1)
    by Fucky the troll on 2001.11.20 11:28 (#2588446)
    
    Woah! When did the WIPO troll get freed? And how the fuck did I miss it?
    
    Excellent FP, sir.
    
    This is a sig virus. Please put me in your sig

17. Re:Snotting a first! (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.20 11:04 (#2588407)
    
    omg that is crapflooding material if i ever saw it!!!!!! and u got a first post!!!! whoot to the wipo troll!!!

18. GW, please.... (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 9:03 (#2583756)
    
    GW...you know we love every hair on your 27 acre ass... and I, for one, would never do anything untowards your graceful demeanor. And you probably have several friends that would love to help you do the bear dance all over my face if I so much as spelled your name wrong. And you know I'd defend your Constitutional right to defame God in heaven. I'd even help fund your education, should you ever decide to take that route. Hell, I'd buy you a tall tepid bear-whiz beer if you were here with me, right now!
    
    But. ...if you can't find another topic, I'm gonna step over your dead mother's grave and kick your assuredly anesthetitized butt clear across the playground.
    
    Now go stick your shaved head back down inside the woman's toilet, and just to show there's no hard feelings, I'll jump in the tow-truck and drive right over to help you pull it right out...ok?
    
    thanks

19. Re:Help me Taco-Snotters!! (Score:-1)
    by mark knopfler 69 on 2001.11.19 8:25 (#2583695)
    
    I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU SIR. FOR ONE THING, THE E-MAIL FROM CMDRTACO DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING MISTAKES. Let's be realistic here, CmdrTaco usually types with one hand, and since he is shaking from jacking off his aim on the keyboard isn't too good. Those e-mails were a little too well written. Sorry boy, you'll have to do better.

20. Re: What the hell is "taco snotting"? (Score:-1)
    by WeatherTroll on 2001.11.19 8:14 (#2583667)
    
    You should update this to say VA Software instead of VA Linux.

21. YOU ARE WINNER (Score:1)
    by smackmonkey on 2001.11.19 7:06 (#2583510)
    
    Crackhead moderators: this is +5, Hilarious material.
    
    --
    CNN declares War on Islam!
    Left-wing America declares War on its Civil Liberties!

22. Re:On Taco-Snotting 1.9 (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 5:40 (#2583336)
    
    This was funny the first 100 times. Now it is getting boring!

23. Digusting and Shameful (Score:-1)
    by egg troll on 2001.11.18 22:27 (#2582054)
    
    Having masturbated *twice* to this post, I'm still incredibly aroused! Come over for a Taco Snot. I'll be wearing my crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit!!
    
    For more info check out this /. article

24. IMPROVE THE FAQ (Score:-1, Flamebait)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:03 (#2580822)
    
    add more links to goatse and to cowboineal's site to make it better. a link to rotten.com would be nice too
    • Re:IMPROVE THE FAQ (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:18 (#2580832)
      
      and a link to michael's site and to jon katz's site if he has one and homo's site. i dont know what else to say. maybe a few links to phallic.org they have nice penis pictures! a link to the planet quake site or whatever. really make the reader feel this faq really answers their questions. oh yeah, and when you talk about cmdrtaco snotting you, say he brought you to "orgasm after sweaty orgasm". describe it more is all i'm saying. and use more italics and bolding! and when you talk about jon katz shitting or whatever have a link to fecal japan on rotten.com
      
      other wise a great job wipo troll! keep up the good work!

25. Re:CmdrTaco's filthy secret! (Score:-1)
    by Wil Wheaton on 2001.11.18 6:41 (#2580438)
    
    Hi. Let's be buddies.. butt buddies.
    --
    WIL WHEATON DOT NET

26. WIPO speaks the truth (Score:-1)
    by dead_puppy on 2001.11.18 5:33 (#2580342)
    
    Here is an e-mail I received a week ago:
    
    From: malda@slashdot.org
    To: puppy_dead@hotmail.com
    Subject: were where you last friday? :(
    
    I thought we where supposed to meet at Backdoor's at 8-ish, sugar-lips? You could've at least told me that you could'nt make it! I was even in my favorite pink skirt for you, honey-cup... next time, you could be more considarite and tell me you cant come... bastard.
    
    --
    CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)
    
    You finding Ling-Ling's head?

27. Taco snotting is WRONG!!! (Score:-1)
    by Big_Ass_Spork on 2001.11.18 4:53 (#2580300)
    
    I do it wrong
    
    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
    
    Massaging my nutsack she....
    
    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
    
    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]
    
    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
    
    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
    
    I DO IT WRONG!!!!
    
    ---
    All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it...

28. Rob Malda Dead at age 25! (Score:-1)
    by j0nkatz on 2001.11.17 22:54 (#2579596)
    
    I just heard some sad news on the radio -- famous queerbait Rob Malda was found dead in his Holland home this morning. The details were a bit hazy, but it seems that he drowned in jizz while Taco Snotting his friend Hemos. I'm sure everyone in the /. community will miss him -- even if you didn't enjoy his queer antics and boring ass website, there's no denying his contributions to the homosesual cultural development, particularly in the areas of Taco snotting. Truly an American icon.
    
    I wanna Open Source sex so it won't be worth a shit either.

29. TACO-SNOTTING is really Donkey-Punching (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.15 6:38 (#2567601)
    
    No no no, the correct term for that is "donkey-punch". I have eye-witnessed this amazing eye-popping event demonstrated on unsuspecting hose-monsters by my frat brothers in the past.. . :-)

30. Re:the effect of knowlege laws... (Score:1)
    by AbsoluteRelativity on 2001.11.15 5:31 (#2567457)
    
    The WIPO Troll
    Slashdot and the Karma Lottery - News for uber monkeys, by uber monkeys.

31. Re:Taco-Snotting (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:27 (#2557632)
    
    Oh, man that's just sick !

32. HOW DO I GET AN ANONYMOUS PROXY? (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:03 (#2557604)
    
    TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET AN ANONYMOUS proxy please WIPO Troll. Maybe later i will join you in a snotting at my place. ;P

33. Re:Taco-Snottage!?!?!? (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by vikool on 2001.11.13 7:43 (#2557495)
    
    what is this bull shit,i feel offened that some people feel so so senseless to post stuff like these esp when such a tragic incident has occured

34. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1)
    by I.T.R.A.R.K. on 2001.11.11 22:38 (#2551890)
    
    Where the fuck do I sign up?!
    
    - I throw rocks at retarded kids
    
    "Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."

35. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 21:53 (#2551753)
    
    this shit is hilarious..keep up the good work.

36. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by rockwood on 2001.11.11 21:49 (#2551746)
    
    OMG! That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard! WHo in their right mind would sit down and waste the time to construct such a replusive story. I guess I'll be skipping lunch and dinner today.. and possibly tomorrow also. The game doesn't affect reality. Reality affects the game.

37. Re:Ban this! It's disgusting!! (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 14:43 (#2550701)
    
    dude, this is crap-flood material if i ever saw it.
    duuuuuuuuudddddddddddddeeeeeeeee.

38. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Flamebait)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 8:16 (#2550266)
    
    horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com
    
    Ah, so that's what the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.horny-rob newsgroup is about!

39. MOD THIS UP PLEASE!!! (Score:-1)
    by egg troll on 2001.11.11 5:34 (#2550024)
    
    +5, Arousing
    
    For more info check out this /. article

40. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:39 (#2549891)
    
    WINNER>

41. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:37 (#2549887)
    
    I love you. Why do you use your bitchslapped account, rather than signing up for a new account to post at +1 before getting bitchslapped by the censors here? I guess I should speak for myself, but I don't want to log out and lose all my slashdot customization properties, nor do I want to lose my 50 karma yet.

42. Re:On Taco-Snotting (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.09 9:19 (#2542412)
    
    you fucking rock! right down to the expanded cvs id!
    
    WIPO trolls > linux

________________________________________

• The URL of this document is http://slashdot.org/journal.pl? op=display &uid=267426 &id=2346.
• Previous revisions are maintained at http://slashdot.org/journal.pl? op=display &uid=308209.

$Id: tacosnotting.html,v 1.12 2001/12/02 20:07:02 wipo Exp $

One idea, probably stupid:

[biglig2]

Put the CD-ROM in an external case and turn the unit around so the backs to you.

Well, I said probably stupid, but what do you expect when I'm only on my second cup of coffee.

Oh for godsakes!

[noc]

Just hack your case! It's yours, right? You own it, right? So make it better fit your needs. Fuck a couple LEDs or buttons in the front, or, if you have an extra drive bay, use that. Just wire your shit to the front. I've been doing this for 10 years now, and I've been nothing but happy. It's convenient, *and* then I've got a customized case. Everything's all good.

One dumb , one not-so dumb, and one clever idea.

[biglig2]

How about a Lazy Susan (you know, a rotating platform like in a chinese restaurant). No that's stupid idea, the cables won't stretch.

Mind you, there's one I've seen in the Jensen catalogue (it's a UK tool company, an kind of engineering pr0n magazine ;-) for your service workbench, very nice.

OK, run extension cables from the ports back into the case thru a slot, then up to the drive bays, and make a new drive bay plate that you mount them in.

Or, ignore all our ranting and just read the posts that answer your question, i.e. who mkaes these sorts of case!

An alternative.

[shippo]

I used to use a couple of machines with expansion cards on the top of the case, making them very easy to get to. There was also an additional cover that fitted above the slots and allowed cabling to be ducted to the rear if needed.

Unfortunatly this was a good number of years ago and I've no idea who produced them.

Re:An alternative.

[MattT]

I've got one of these cases and I love it! It's a monster of a server case, made by AT&T (originally for a '386 server!) Of course it's AT and not ATX, so it really limits it's usefulness for modern motherboards. But the access to the cards on the top is great. (and no-one will ever try to steal a 10 year old/100lb. boat anchor!)

Front USB

[haruharaharu]

There are literally piles of boxes with front mounted USB ports. The only problem is that most of them are really cheap. Best advice is to grab a $30 usb hub and velcro it to the side of your box.

I want one rear mount drive bay

[hamjudo]

I want the CD Writer facing backwards. I don't use anything else on the front of the system. Uptimes are in the hundreds of days, I don't use the powerswitch or reset button very often. I do want access to all of the connectors and the CD Writer.

It would be worth $20 to $30 to not need to get out the dremel and make my own rear facing drive bay.

The other choice is externally mounting the CD-Writer. That makes the whole system more fragile. More of a pain to move and to work on. It's hard to run IDE cables externally, possible, but hard. SCSI CDWriters are either slower, more expensive or both. USB 1.1 is slower. Firewire and USB 2.0 are more expensive. Check pricewatch.com, $71 for 24x10x40x IDE, USB 1.1 is limited to 4X4X6X ($85), firewire starts at $144.

Fuck a couple LEDs or buttons in the front..

[Anonymous Coward]

...somebody needs a girlfriend.

Just answer the question.

[haplo21112]

All the guy asked is does anyone know of a case designed this way...
We all know of the drive bay plug answers, and other such stuff and there is always the dremel tool solution, but if would be nice to know if there is a case that already fits the need. which amoung the 30+ answers no one really says...

Re:Just answer the question.

[ccg]

Well, I tried to answer the question by pointing out a few existing cases on the market that have that stuff built in to the front, but I got marked "-1, Redundant." A guy, who posted later than I did about adding a drive-bay plug ("$20 Solution") with the same ports as the case I mentioned, got marked "+5, Informative." Go figure.

ccg

Re:Who needs a desk - Use a table without sidewall

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been using two six foot folding tables as computer desks for years. Four PCs and monitors (soon to add a fifth) and an HP printer.
One of the tables has a bookshelf on/over it, to keep the references handy. Coffee cup holds the pens and pencils.

Computer desks may be stylish, but at $40 each, folding tables are hard to beat.

Lazy Susan

[davidhan]

What about putting the case on a lazy susan, that way you can just spin the case around to mess around with the back and spin it around again to put in a CD etc. You might need longer cables, though, and be careful for the soy sauce. Hm, does anyone make a round case?

Dell does

[Anonymous Coward]

Some of the newer Dell towers have their USB and firewire ports on the front. They are hidden behind a little swing out door. Yes, the door can become a pain...

Multi-Function Access Panel $28 USB,Firewire,more

[Anonymous Coward]

There is the Multi-Function Access Panel (FPT01S) for $27.95 from CrazyPC.com as reviewed at ipKonfig.com.

Specs:
* Fits in standard drive bay
* 2 USB Ports
* 1 Firewire Port (IEEE 1394)
* 1 Microphone input jack
* 1 Speaker Output jack (headphones)
* 1 Game port for use with joystick
* 1 LCD Temperature Sensor with thin probe (battery included)
* Stickers to label temperature for CPU, HDD, and Chip
* Extension cables for USB, Firewire, Sound and Gamport
* PCI slot interface card to route extension cables outside to back of case

My case,,,

[proxeus]

My case is a 4ft squared peice of 1/4 inch thick plywood lying down flat on a banquet table. The back of the motherboard is facing my monitor and the front is hanging off the front of the table. very nice setup... makes swapping out cards a flash for testing.

and....

[_avs_007]

You can set a desk fan next to it, to blow on it at full blast to ease your overclocking/cooling needs :)

I have one side door open, with a desk fan pointed at it :)

The Case you Seek

[Anonymous Coward]

The Nokia appliance is what you describe. Seek an older IP440. Rack mount, everything is in front and you'll get the market leading firewall vendor's package installed. They only support 368 Megs of RAM, though...

spinserver

[austad]

Here's a nice rackmount case that does what you want. They sell full systems or just the cases. You could always buy the 4u and put it on its side.

http://www.spinserver.com