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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.
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.
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
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 $$$
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?)