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The Incredible Invisible Case
Brett Profitt writes "No, it's not entirely like the clear pc case, and it's much, much cooler than a simple windowed case, but it would still look great with a hard drive window. This, my friends, is The Invisible Case ! " Truly a labor of love. This may be the
nicest case I've ever seen. To bad you can't buy them like this! Check out
the details (Transparent rubber feet, fans, and hard drive window). It absorbs
envy beams from miles around.
and promptly converts them to EMF emissions. :)
Wrap that rascal! Where's the shielding?
Now if only they could construct a clear biological skinsuit for humans, then we could see how things REALLY work :)
"you sonofabitch i didn't know!"
There's always some crazy geek or other inventing an new computer case.
... wait
What will they come next with, an Ethernet switch on a teddy bear???
Oh
How is this not like the "clear PC" case?
If you want a really invisible case, just lay your mobo and parts out on a table. Then, your PC will be +5 cool.
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
The Emperor's New Clothes...Just tell everyone that you have a new machine that you modded with a clear case, clear components, and clear peripherals, and only smart people can see them :)
How Jaded Are You?
-G
Sapere Aude - Homer
any mirrors?
Not nearly as cool as the invisible clothes I sold to the Emperor.
;)
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
In about 10 minutes this whole website will be invisible thanks to the allmighty /. effect.
Ya, it's nice, and it's pretty clear, and it's a cube, but it ain't Apple.
And, I still like my lego case better. Maybe I should take some pictures of that . . .
Later . . . . . . WebBug
for those trying to get to it (its a bit /.ed atm), the article is split up in 16 pages. The good pictures are on page 14 and 16. So try to get through to those, rather than taking a guess:
http://www.bit-tech.net/article/72/14
http://www.bit-tech.net/article/72/16
Forget the invisible case, that server must be using some invisible bandwidth. Only 10 comments so far when I clicked the link - 15 minutes to load the pics.
So what? I just leave the case off my PC most of the time, and it has the same general effect.
I wonder if it's possible to make translucent-clear printed circuit boards? I guess green is okay, and the occasional red-lacquer board you come acros is neat-looking, but I'd like to be able to look through a motherboard like looking through a frosted window...
I wish, just once, that I'd get to see one of these tricked out case pages before they get /.'ed. There are a whole 7 comments, and allready it's responding dog slow and none of the pictures are loading.
Well, got through 3 whole pages of the article in normal speed before the site downshifted to Slashdot speed. Oh well, I should be through loading the rest of the article in a day or two, so I'll comment on it then.
slashdotted within 7 comments, and i never got to see the finshed product.
:P
i guess that's what i get for following the storyline.
Indie rock lives! b-side!
what would be awesome with this, is pouring some liquid CO2 smoke into the case and seeing exactly how the airflow inside the case is behaving! you could work out how to best position fans etc.
Liberty.
How the hell do they keep these things clean?
- Jim -
I just ordered the Lian Li PC65USB (black) and am waiting for word of it's impending shipment. I'm thinking of putting LED Christmas lights inside.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I do not think I would like the constant reminder of all the dust bunnies. I think blowing the machine out every couple of months is good.
Either give it away or get top dollar, but never sell yourself cheap.
when, a couple of months from now, the interior of the case is covered in dust.
The case is so invisible that I can't even see it's webpage....oh wait, thats the slashdot effect.
The craftsmanship is incredible.
He removed the metal case so the guts of the power supply are visible. He took the face off his DVD drive so you can see inside. Even his hard disk has been modded with a window showing the platter and the read/write head.
My favorite quotes:
"Needle files are a modder's secret weapon."
"Yes, I did polish the heads on the fasteners. Thanks for noticing."
Very impressive.
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
> but it would still look great with a hard drive window
I dunno, but that big clear thing on top of the hard drive looks kind of like a window to me.
Damn, it went down while I was browsing it. Three minutes. There should be a poll : how long before a site is Slashdotted after a post? I hope Taco warns those webmasters in advance. I can see them freak out already.
Language is what makes us different from primitive animals, and bureaucrats.
It only "absorbs envy beams" from the kind of losers who give that much of a damn what their computer looks like. So it's a transparent case. Big deal. You'd think it was a sports car the way Taco was drooling over it. Not that sports car fetishists are any better, mind you.
but I really hate this whole "let's ripoff macintosh"-idea. Give me a grey or a black case, square or rectangulat and keep those ugly colored/plastic round thigies away from me.
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You're buying into the hype. Trust your eyes, this is a hoax. Any kid can see that this computer is not wearing any case. I betcha they even told you only an idiot wouldn't see it. (A troll or a clever joke?)
I like putting computers together. I always try to keep the RF shielding intact. This computer has no RF shielding at all.
How much of a problem is that, anyway? If his next-door-neighbor is an amateur radio enthusiast, will the clear computer mess up the airwaves? If he wants to watch TV, will the computer ruin the picture? Can he stop pacemakers at 50 yards or something?
I don't have any clear idea how serious the emissions from computer hardware really are.
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
he, being a smart person, removed them from the server.
smartay mahn, he!
Now to make the invisible monitor...
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
When a site is immediately slashdotted, I think the editors should pull the story off the front page. There aren't likely to be any ontopic comments if nobody can see the site. If anyone posts a working mirror maybe they can move the story back to the front page.
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Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what mnemonic means, you've got a problem. - Larry Wall
Taco? Why? Thats just lame. Modding a case is a labor of love. It is art(and cooling science), not mass production. If you want your case to have mods, do it yourself and be original, don't be lame.
Now, if only we could get entirely invisible computers, we would be able to sidestep the SSSCA nonsense about not being able to build our own computers. The FBI'd never find our invisible DIY boxen.
I once shot a man in Reno 'cause they cancelled Firefly.
Prior art means nothing to Apple when they'll present their iCeBox(TM) within a few years. So be careful to log the photos' timestamps, in case that we read a story on /. about Apple threatening everyone who puts plexiglass around a x86 box.
It will look great for about 5 minutes. and DONT take it to a lan-party.
The type of plastic he chose is easy to polish and looks great, but scratches easier than any other plastic on the planet. Plexiglass is the worst in durability to scratches. yes you could buff out the scratches as you get them.
I like his idea, and I would love to see someone make one out of real glass with a metallic tint so that the RFI and EMI can't freely propagate out of the case. (You could get your case vaccuum-metalized... now that would be really cool.. not clear... CHROME!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Since /. is charging for subscriptions... how about /. stat mirroring the "cool" sites that get the /. effect and make the "cool" site useless..
/. doesn't use up too much hd space..
I hate it when there's something "cool" in a message, that 1 million other people see, and you try to go to the site and you get broken images everywhere..
Most of us use perl/perlmagick here and it wouldn't be to difficult to create a script that mirrors the site that we want, compress the hell out of the images, and have a new fangled mirror.
Remove the mirror after an hour or two, so
now THAT would be a service that would be worth the subscriptions...
"It's not like your minds are as open as the source you love..." - Me to the majority of Slashdot.
Have I ever got a deal for you!
C'mon, where are the perfectly polished aluminum sphere PCs? When will someone put a PC inside a disco ball? How about just a pyramid? Anybody?
Oh, well, maybe I ought to try making one myself. What's the maximum distance across those micro ATX boards..hmm...and where would I get a big polished metal sphere anyway..
seriously tho - that thing has the potential to generate a LOT of EMI. at home i have one of the older (non 900mhz) cordless phones. when i go across the hall into the computer room, with a few computers with huge heavy metal cases, i tend to get a lot of interference. i hope this guy doesn't have one of those. or a desire to listen to the radio.
on the other hand, i really like the idea and design. the modded HD directly on top is a nice touch. i'd like to see something a little more interesting than your standard cube tho. perhaps something tower-like, or maybe even ultra flat - you could use the entire computer as a desktop. granted that would make plugging things into the pci bus a problem... modded mobos, anyone? ^_~
Xfce: Lighter than some, heavier than others. Just right.
I glad if it can absorb envy beams, but I want something that can absorb the ./ effect!!
(actually while I was writting this comment the site started to slooowwwwy load in another window;)
I stole this Sig
The incredible dissapearing website!
I mean like whoah! the PC is ENTIRELY invisible!
Either that or the images aren't loading because of slashdotting.
:)
The problem with no case is dust build up. However the plus side is increased ventilation. I've had no case on my Amiga 1200 for years - partly because the '040 wouldn't fit with the case on - well I tell a lie - it's just missing the top half of the case.
http://www.level80.co.uk/
The site is /. already so the picturers does not load, but maybe this is the whole point.
Help fight continental drift.
Umm, There is no such thing as *LIQUID* CO2. Gaseous CO2 freezes directly to dry ice and dry ice sublimates directly to its gaseous form.
Backup on their site
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I want a really invisible case. Like in another room in another part of the house where I don't have to listen to it. Unfortunately, according to someone who knows, while the mouse and keyboard aren't a problem, the monitor cable has a limit of something like 15' before you'd have to get into signal amplifiers. But that's it, the ultimate, just a nice large flat screen monitor, cordless keyboard and mouse, and silence. Beautiful, beautiful silence.
I should sell a case mod kit that makes a computer invisible.
It will come with two big guys and a truck!
It sounds something like a Google cache. I definitely think that a short-term cache would be a good idea. It could all be done through redirects: if slashdot can't open the page in a reasonable time frame, then they should serve a cached copy. I'm aware that some sites rely on hit count for ad revenue, but once it's /.ed, that becomes irrelevant. Using a cached copy when the page is over-loaded should allow them to still get hits, and allow other people to see the site.
Some people are getting pictures? Some are getting the page? I can't even get a ping response from bit-tech's servers - Now that's a real ./ effect
It is slashdotted... I can't see anything...
Either the web server is totally messed up or the article was deleted. Get 404 error.
...but it could have been at least half the size...
And yes, for those wondering, my fingers are having a bad day../ effect? I wonder what that'd be like...
OT, but this /. obsession with case modification -- a practice which i can't relate to -- makes me think of the classic story of Andy Ihnakto's 'anti-case-mod':
He did the reverse -- he kept the case intact, but substituted something else more interesting for the innards. Specifically, he made an aquarium out of his old Mac 512. (no pics, but if you hunt around on google there's lots of 'em people have done)
Who needs a fish screensaver when you can have real ones swimming around...
Mirroring sites in stories would be a great idea. Just have a link beneath the story of all the pages that might get /.ed. It's probably nicer than killing the site and I'm sure /. wouldn't have a problem with the traffic since all of the traffic is origionating from the /. server anyways.
I stole this Sig
has been addressed in the past, there may be lagal issues with mirroring the content without prior written consent, not everone would care but someone would kill it for the rest. and some web sites make money from adds/banners and that also complicates the mirroring process.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
I'd run something like this on my machine, but at DSL outbounds speed of 128kb.. or whatever it is.. it would be /. in 1.2 seconds.. heh.
:)
Taco, get on it!
"It's not like your minds are as open as the source you love..." - Me to the majority of Slashdot.
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BS, google does it w/out any consent, so can slashdot.
I might also add that the link is 404 now... /. effect at it's best...
"We kill sites, dead."
"It's not like your minds are as open as the source you love..." - Me to the majority of Slashdot.
Well, if you mirrored the site, the site should still get revenue from ad hits [just look at the source of this page for example, the img src is of a doubleclick server with slashdot's id in the url]. So if they did hit the page, assuming the mirror was exact, the external image link for the banner ad would be intact. However, some ad sites will check the request URI and referrer url and notice it's not coming off of their server, which could cause problems. This could be remedied, but it would take time-- and news is current. But articles like this one, which really aren't time dependant could be delayed until the site maintainer has time to arrange a mirror and still get ad revenue.
Adam
yeah that is a great idea, however...
/. themselves! It would be nice to see the Irony of that, but don't be surprised if slashdot doesn't mirror sites.
The problem isn't disk space but bandwidth. Remember September 11th... even slashdot gets bandwidth problems. If they cached pages such as this one with some 80 pictures, they may
WTF?! I wanna seeee! Does anyone have this cached, or a mirror up we can link to? It sounds cool for the 5 of us who actually saw it. :o(
Christ, slashdot needs a GRAMMAR checker now too.
It's almost a full-time job.
Did you really graduate COLLEGE, Rob?
just go to Google and type
site:www.bit-tech.net case
To see the rest of the pages on the site. Most people don't know about Googles search site feature, it's cool.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
and now the URL is invisible.
... with an incredibly invisible link.
At least with this case you'll know when its time to pull out the Air Duster. I know sometimes after pulling my case off, I cringe at the amount of gunk I'm gonna find in bottom. I guess this case is good if you don't mind taking apart your computer every couple months. Otherwise I think it would end up looking like the inside of a Hoover.
> I'm aware that some sites rely on hit count for ad revenue, but once it's /.ed, that becomes irrelevant.
/. has been the cause of huge bills for featuring sites of unsuspecting hobbyists.
OTOH, some small sites are charged by their web hoster based on the amount of traffic they get.. I wonder if
Where's the shielding?
Scary scenario:
1. Moron makes unshielded case because he thinks it looks cool.
2. Senator next door suddenly starts getting RF interference on his television.
3. FCC tracks it down to unshielded PC.
4. Senator introduces "Computer RF Protection Act" which bars the sale of computer components to the public.
5. Gateway, Dell, Compaq, HP, and Apple, seeing a way to kill off the screwdriver shops and hobbyist market, form "People Against Radio and Television Interference" (PARTI).
6. Microsoft, in its desire to sell a new Windows license each time someone wants a new PC, joins PARTI.
7. PARTI takes out millions of dollars worth of ads pretending to be a concerned citizens group who wants to "stop hackers from interfering with your television."
8. PARTI passes and the only ones who can get computer components are licensed manufacturers using them in FCC-approved computers.
Want to upgrade your RAM, hard drive, or CPU? Too bad. You will just have to buy a whole new computer, complete with Windows-du-jour, from one of the big manufacturers.
Think about that scenario next time you see a case built to show off about $500 worth of consumer-grade computer components.
Here is the google cached link: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:yFtkFzNXw54C: www.bit-tech.net/article/63/4+The+Invisible+Case+b it-tech.net&hl=en
I host this.
Firemen have been dispatched to Telehouse London to prevent this web server from burning down most of the UK internet as it's pair of P3's and pathetic little IDE disk UTTERLY FAIL to cope with the pure 30mbit/sec of joy that slashdotting creates.
http://www.sci-fighter.com/news/newsfeb02/feb21alu minium.php3
A few years ago a good slashdotting cost me over $500 bucks. The low CPM banners made me about $300 that day, for a net loss of about $200.
Every time someone posts intelligently regarding Slashdot implementing some sort of mirror system, it always gets modded up. Look at the amount of posts here regarding slashdotting... more than half I would say [at this time]. We are speaking out, but no one ever seems to listen. What do we have to do to convince Slashdot that this _is_ a good idea and it is what the readers want?
blarg
Too bad you can't buy them like this!
You can purchase similar all plexi-glass cases from www.clear-viewtech.com
Toodles D. Clown
The awesome cases from xoxide, plus they have the tach mod which is crazy 31337
Er yeah.. we kinda died when it made the frontpage. *shrug* Sorry guys, but it was us or you.. Maybe you'd like to take a ticket each to view the article.. :)
Yeah, it's so invisible i can't even load the page to see it.
----- "I'm still sane on three planets and two moons."
Looks like the webmaster got wise... :)
:p)" (on the homepage)
"sorry, but the bit-tech.net server is currently unavailable (thanks slashdot
http://www.lovermecases.com/ has some cool pics too.
Or look under distributors on the story link...
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well... time to get modded down.
/. like we do every other "company" and put your $$$ where your mouth is.
/. is starting to become more and more like the corporate entities that we all despise.
What do we have to do to convince Slashdot that this _is_ a good idea and it is what the readers want?
Maybe it's time to treat
I hate to say it, but between a few crackhead moderators, and this "subscription" system,
It appears that it's so transparent that it made the page invisible too. -Dave Watson
http://students.washington.edu/djwatson
The site is hosted by UK Gamer Networks, which is a provider in europe (London, UK, to be precise) where unlimited bandwith for webhosting is the exception to the norm. Their standard hosting plans are listed here. The "Gold hosting package" is limited to 20 GB per month for web traffic and costs about 30 US-$ (20 £). That's not really a small amount of data but then the slashdot effect is not a small DDoS attack.
Wow, that really IS invisible.
Gee - my first post, and I risk damaging my karma. Alas... Am I the only geek who finds electronics inherently ugly? I don't even like my PC showing as-is because of the lack of style displayed by the designers. Why would anybody want to show the guts of their PC? I did not get a chance to see the pics, as the site was already pulled, but having seen the insides of hundreds of PC's, none of them make much of a positive fashion statement.
WTF! Is /. only for college students?
It's great he put the link in. Not everyone lives in a dorm off mom, dad & Uncle $am's tuition.
And oh yeah YOU will graduate [like me] or be expelled; then you will appreciate the links!
Why doesn't slashdot mirror the site anyway, but still link to the original. Then, if and when the real site goes down redirect the link to the copy on the slashdot server? Once the real site is back up, redirect back again etc etc. At least then people could see the cool stuff! It's not as though it would take any revenue away from the original site - if their server has given up they're not making any money on ads anyway!
Honestly, how difficult would it be to implement something like a "slashdot load balancer"?
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
should have used IIS
/article/72/ was not found on this server.
Not Found
The requested URL
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.20 Server at www.bit-tech.net Port 80
Maybe after that slashdot effect happens, slashdot can count the number of pages they served to slashdotters and then pay the owner for loss of ad revenue. Because /. would only serve the cache pages to subscribers. It would make it worth the $5 right there.
I hope the Canadian equivalent of the FCC will stop this company from selling the case. Selling unshielded computer cases just is pretty irresponsible.
Yea, but if you recall, Taco said something along the lines of /. traffic tripling, or atleast getting a lot more traffic than normal.
I don't think that it would be THAT bad, esp. if they cut the quality down on the images..
"It's not like your minds are as open as the source you love..." - Me to the majority of Slashdot.
If the banner ad server refused to serve annoying ads to viewers referred by slashdot, that would mean we would have to see the stories without the ads! That would be terrible!
Slashdot is not charging for subscriptions. Slashdot is offering a way for people to turn off advertising.
There is a CRITICAL difference. Subscription sites only allow paid members to even view the site. If you don't want to pay for slashdot, then you don't need to, it just means you'll see more ads.
I got email, saying that link to my site (http://site/) is going to be posted on Slashdot in half an hour. For the time of slashdotting I add this to my httpd.conf:
Redirect /img/ http://slashdot.org/cache.pl?url=http://site/img/
so when someone wants http://site/img/image10.jpeg, she/he would be 302 redirected to http://slashdot.org/cache.pl?url=http://site/img/i mage10.jpeg and would got this image from Slashdot cache.
I could even set it up so only queries
with http://slashdot.org/* Referrer header
would be redirected, or
alternatively, someone could just change
the URIs in <a href="...">
links in the HTML if the webmaster
don't have access to webserver config.
But the point is that this way the cache
would be served only for explicit wish
of the webmaster and also only for those
images which are not the ads, banners,
counters, etc. if the webmaster wants so.
It could be also used for HTML but the large images are probably the main reason of killing banwidth on sites, like in this story, with many high quality pictures of cool hardware (I suppose that there are many high quality pictures of cool hardware but I can't access it). The cache could work for, say, 6 hours and would serve only files in subdirectories of linked URIs to avoid any abuse.
What do you think?
~shiny
WILL HACK FOR $$$
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Mirroring is a bad idea. Unless you ask permission. That takes time though. It is pointless.
More to the point: I don't understand why people have such crappy servers. Yes, it may be a heavy load, but damn... These servers suck ass. They go down when a couple people start accessing it. I know, it's more than just a "couple", but still, these network admins suck and need to go get trained or something. Don't people load test their server? It's not that hard, sheesh.
I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Subscribers should get the stories a little in advance (15 mins to an hour should do it) so they can get the links before everyone else eats up the bandwidth. THAT would be a perk worth subscribing for.
p.s. - when I saw your topic as 'mirrors' I thought you were gonna talk about building a case out of mirrors. that'd be sweet!
do not read this line twice.
Tt's already been done. Me and my brother did it in our spare time, I'd take a picture of it but all the ones I take don't turn out.
they kinda look like theres this ugly man living in my machine.
I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
OK, so I'm way the hell OT, but there's a moderator around here who needs to wake up. The above post was obviously an attempt at humor, and was indeed on topic. So, would you PLEASE explain why you modded this offtopic?
lyapunov: I wish I had mod points right now, I'd try to fix this guy's anal congestion.
What do we have to do to convince Slashdot that this _is_ a good idea and it is what the readers want? If the site bothers you that much, then create your own "News for Nerds" site. Lord knows, a monkey with a lobotomy could spell better than these morons. The monkey could spam out better Perl code, too. And, frankly, there is no way the pages could ever look this ugly, no matter how much crack that monkey was smoking while clicking randomly in Photoshop. All that's left is for the monkey to start posting "interesting" articles for us to read and comment on. That can't be that hard, but it would take some dedication.
where exactly do the EMF emmisions come from?... its my understanding that it all comes from the power supply... the main reason i ask is that i wish to build a homemade car mp3 player, which is actually pretty much a half a computer, with a custom-built DC-DC power supply... i hear plexiglass makes for a good case in this situation (scrap plexiglass is eaisly enough cut, and can be bought from a glass store cheaply), but it doesnt shield from any EMF transmissions (as far as i know)... is this a bad choice, because of EMF emmisions?... id hate to have to work with metal on this one... also, what do the people with computer case windows do about their EMF emmisions...
15 minutes? You must just sit and click-click-click-refresh. Most people don't have time for that kind of nonsense. I don't want to hear about your wierdo GNOME/KDE applet that polls for new news either. Running that kind of crap is a waste of resources (I use Oroborus & fsPanel, that's it; I login in less than 2 seconds).
I'd make it more like 1 or 2 hours (or more even) earlier than everyone else.
Isn't the shielding from a case due to the gaussian surface the case ( a conductor) provides?
E*flux = Qenc;
Farraday first expressed some fundamental concepts in words, such as electromagnetic field lines, and later capacitance (hence farads), but I believe Gauss discovered this one.
Cide1
-- the computer doesn't want any beer, no matter how much you think it does. NEVER, EVER feed your computer beer.
Let me make sure I understand this correctly.
The open source community thinks it can design an operating system that is good enough to place on every desktop. However, the open source community cannot figure out how to post a news article without breaking the part of the Internet that the article is about.
This may sound like a troll but it is basically an honest question. Can it REALLY be that difficult to create a mirror system?
Yeah, let me pull a server out of my ass... ...that trick never works.
Thanks man, there has been a rash of this lately. Without trying to flame anybody I have lost more than I have gained recently.
The guy that posted the comment with the direct links to the pictures was modded down for being overated, mod total: up 7 down 4.
I think that this identify friend or foe shit has gone a long way in making this problem worse. Oh well... just postin as an ac as I am a karma whore
On the next episode of "Unlikely Super Heroes."
Take out the middle-man and point the story's links straight to the Slashdot mirror (with permission, of course).
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.
I'm hosting the images, they are still hosting the html/etc. Let me know if you have trouble with the images loading (monolith@orblivion.com) - if you have troble with the pages, I have nothing to do with that. Cheers, enjoy the pix!
David/monolith
I'm afraid this case will cratch the first day my cats sniff at it. And how about heat? The case surely won't get rid of it. I'll wait for a case made of transparant aluminium. :-)
If you suffer through the interminable downloads (remind me not to let this guy show me pictures of his kids), you discover that he did this in order to house...a 1 GHz Celeron...
This reminds me of those kits you could buy that would turn the front and rear ends of your VW Beetle into a Rolls Royce.
--Blair
2 things, one their are many companys that would sue the moment they found out someone was mirroring aka copying their work with out their permission, second, and the extra bandwith would be redirected to SLASHDOT servers, meaning they would not only have to be handling the extra bandwith, but they would also be paying for the extra bandwith, and not making money from any type of ad's.
All the cutouts were shaped with needle files (roughly eight hours of hand work there) and meticulously polished with sandpaper and Novus #2 polish. The polishing took maybe another three hours, but the results were well worth it.
Dude, that's insane. Polishing acrylic edges is best done with a propane torch flame. Takes only a few seconds and produces much nicer results.
Except I think Roadie had all his stuff screwed to the wall. The whole computer took up about the space of a poster, with power and ethernet leaving the area.
They still haven't gotten to the fun part: Transparent circuit boards (copper-clad glass substrate, brittle but beautiful) and transparent chip packaging.
;) Oh wait, if the board's clear just watch all the action from underneath.
Think about it! Most QFP and PGA chips have boring black plastic bodies. How hard would it be to replace them with clear plastic? Ceramic packages could probably be made at least translucent.
Then you embed light-emitting junctions at important areas of the chip, so you can watch the whole thing brighten, dim, and change color as the computational load changes. NOPs would be faint blue, cache misses would make the prefetch unit flash red. Floating-point would cause the FPU to glow green. Imagine it! You could tell what was eating most of your timeslices just by looking at the chip. Nevermind how you'd see through the heatsink to perceive all this.
Seriously though, if the whole mobo chipset were clear-encased too, you could tell the difference between RAM accesses, drive activity, interrupts, DMA storms... Ooooh.
We already have SCSI terminators with activity indicators, am I really asking for too much?
(Now why didn't I patent this 5 years ago when I came up with it?)
It is way toooo dusty to show off....
You use some mirror or highly reflective materials on every fan blade...
You use a white beamer to light it up....
You make you computer box star shaped, and put into it 5 mobos...
And then you have it !!!
THE BeoWulf Disco Cluster !!!
Gosh, lets have somebody else do it 8)
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
It would be awesome if he could post some printable patterns with dimensions so that we can duplicate his work. It is great that he could share his work with us...but for those of us who are too lazy or not mechanically oriented, it would be nice to have some patterns.
Gimme a case that can be used as a fish tank also.. hrmm.. maybe have to feed the fish.. change the filter and make sure none of the fish food gets caught under the cpu.
if slashdot continues to be repeat old news i'm
going to stop reading it.
I'd post pics, but I did the job so well that it doesn't show up in pictures. And now I can't remember where I put the dang thing.
Subscribers can see articles in the future? So what? Everyone gets to see them in the future.
Umm.. It's not that the open source community can't figure it out, it's that the SLASHDOT ADMINS can't figure it out. Or they don't want to, for whatever reason.
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
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Perhaps if bad RF shielding on computer components were really becoming a problem you'd be hearing about it already, because it *is* out there.