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.

Comments

It absorbs envy beams....

[Cruciform]

and promptly converts them to EMF emissions. :)

Wrap that rascal! Where's the shielding?

Re:It absorbs envy beams....

[llamalicious]

There are no EMF emissions.
It's built with Transparent Aluminum...
Faraday to the rescue!

Kind of like...

[B00yah]

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 :)

Re:images slashdotted already...

[scorcherer]

There's a mirror at http://127.0.0.1/../../../../../dev/null. Unfortunately the silver plating has worn off so the mirror is invisible..

How serious is RF interference, anyway?

[steveha]

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

Re:How serious is RF interference, anyway?

[jjhall]

As an amateur radio operator, I can add my $.02 worth.

In working with Packet Radio (data communications over amateur radio) I found that the emissions from my PC were way too high to use the "rubber duck" antenna on my radio, if it were in the same room. I found 2 fixes. One was to put an external antenna on my roof and use it. The other was to put a RF Choke (little black bulge on certain cables) on EVERY cable comming out of the back of the PC.

The EMI won't affect much outside a 10-20 foot radius, but AM radios, etc... that he tries to listen to in the same room or adjacent room will be hosed.

As far as pacemakers, etc... go, I don't have any idea.

...and attracts legislation.

[fmaxwell]

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.

Server death

[pumpkin2146]

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.

Can be had retail

[Toodles]

Too bad you can't buy them like this!

You can purchase similar all plexi-glass cases from www.clear-viewtech.com

My new (?) idea of /. mirroring

[Shiny Metal S.]

Every time someone posts intelligently regarding Slashdot implementing some sort of mirror system, it always gets modded up.

Here's what I would suggest to do, this solution would address every /. concern:

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?