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Cryogenic Mouse Mod
mrsaggy writes "When you get sick of putting an aluminium case on your PC, and lighting up
the keyboard, here is something you can do with your optical mouse. Does anyone know where I can get a Han Solo lego
figure ?" Thats a pretty funny mod. Ya don't see many mouse mods, and
that one is pretty cool.
vodka, straight up, thank you!
Fetishising over ones tools is nothing new. Our Engineering Mascot at U of Waterloo was a 6 foot long Rigid wrench - one of only 5 in the world. We didn't do anything but worship it. It was a 'waste' of a wrench (at least with mods you can still use the tool), but it certainly isn't an isolated case.
:)
Asides, why are cars stylish? Answer: because you have to look at them a lot, so asthetics are important. Why are computer mods stylish (and build by people who use their computers alot): because the user has to look at it a lot, for long periods of time, thus its stylish.
Everything is a tool. Should we design buildings to all look stylistically exactly the same? What are you, a borg?
"Old man yells at systemd"
I mean, first we cut off your legs, then we enclose you in a small airless chamber, "freeze" you, and then jerk you around for the rest of your pitiful existence...
Hmm, sounds like the plot for a B-grade movie. Wait, didn't it already get used in "Boxing Helena"? Sherilyn Fenn in a box, Serena in a box... hmm, what will the MPAA say?
Mouse Mod
http://www.codewolf.com - Just good stuff to waste time
You want a mouse mod? I got yer mouse mod right HERE.
And HERE.
The Body Mouse creator's website.
Yeah, right.
If I'm not mistaken, the screws are under the plastic bearings that the mouse rides around on. These are just held on by a little bit of adhesive, and can be pulled off carefully and reapplied without too much trouble.
Not exactly correct. The metal cases are there to diminish any interference your computer might cause to other electronic devices AND to reduce the interference other electronic devices might cause to your computer! They cannot totally shield your computer but definetly do a better job than not having anything.
Suppose, for instance, that you have an poorly shielded switching power supply. These are not terribly uncommon among cheap computer equipment. Generally it would be a brick that's between your electrical equipment and the outlet. Now take this brick next to a regular monitor (pretty poor shielding here too) and you begin to see nice interference effects! Now guess what happens if you have something similiar next to your unshielded computer.
You don't even need to consider anything related to memory but just the hard drive cables at udma speeds of 33 and over are highly suspectible to noise! It won't take very long until your computer is pretty much locked up and you got corrupted data on your hard drives. I've even had problems from using bad udma-cables (all the problems disappeared when I just got new cables) due to electrical noise probably generated by the fans or other hard drives or the powersupply.. who knows.
The fact is that solar radiation isn't going to do much to your computer (satellites are affected, however) unless you live in polar area and the flares leake from Van Allen belts, but that's a different story. Not shielding your computer is a bad thing because of not only the interference it creates but also the interference it receives..