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Quiet Desk (Not Desktop) PC
Anonymous Coward writes "Rusty took a wholly different approach to PC noise: he built his XP1900+ machine right into the desk! While it may not make the PC industry scramble to define a new *desk* (not desktop) form factor, Rusty's inventive techniques will surely have computer hardware enthusiasts poring over his fine work."
Bit of a problem upgrading 'Desks'. Also, LAN parties will be a bit of a bitch. Gotta get the trusty U-haul trucks.
I can't think of any sites with specific examples, but it seems like I've seen this before... along with computer built into walls and other such things. Now... if it was a LEGO desk with a computer built into it, I'd be impressed.
Darn, could not see the fine work. Slashdotted early. So, should he engrave a big /. in the middle of the desk now?
For chrissakes, don't you geeks have anything better to do at this time of night than go to slashdot and . . . oh, wait . . .
/me slinks into a corner
I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.
Doesn't that make it kinda hard to take to LAN parties? I'd hate to miss out on a good Quake session because I couldn't get my computer into my car.
"No manual entry for woman."
And for the first time in history a table is Slashdotted!
"Unlike most of you, I am not a nut." - Homer J. Simpson
My own personal MCP at my fingertips!
I wish i could find the google cache to up the ol' karma.
-Reid
looks like someone sat on the desk and broke it and the server inside of it...
I love this website... it's my #1 source of cool things I'd love to look at, if only the computer hosting them wasn't a smouldering puddle of melted plastic and silicon.
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
Patents slow down progress. Custom desks with computers built it would be developed much faster without any IP laws at all.
Great.....So now we've got "Anonymous Cowards" hyping the first article on their website...
/home/www/silentpcreview.com/pnadodb/drivers/adodb -mysql.inc.php on line 121
/home/www/silentpcreview.com/pnadodb/drivers/adodb -mysql.inc.php on line 121
Unfortunately, our Anonymous Friend didnt anticipate the strain on the servers...
Warning: Too many connections in
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in
mysql://silentpc:@localhost/silentpcreview failed to connectToo many connections
Ahhh.....Like poetry....
Where's the stress relief when the damn thing Blue Screens?
I'm a signature virus. Please copy me to your signature so I can replicate.
A four alarm fire has broken out in Everett, WA. Officials believe the cause to be a overheated server creating a desk to combust.
Registrant:
Internal Combustion
2815 107th Pl SE
Everett, WA 98208
US
Domain Name: SILENTPCREVIEW.COM
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Now, the next level of this will be redundency. Walk into someone's office, and see two identical desks, with idendical pen holders, family photos, telephones and whatnot on the surface.
"What's that one for?" a casual observer might ask.
"Oh, that's just my backup desk, for when my main one crashes."
Thank the Almighty! The Holy Slashdot Warriors have destroyed this affront to the senses. I may be able to sleep tonight. Fitful sleep, but dreamless sleep...sleep..sleeeeeeep
"Let's see, have to do some work now. Hey, is it hot in here or is it just me? Wow, my desk is getting hot! Hey, what gives?" [phoom!]* "oh, the humanity!!!!"
*phoom = sound wooden desk makes when it bursts into flames
Hey, maybe next they will build a PC that fills an entire room and doubles as a central heating system. Oh... wait...
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
>Who would want to work on such a hot, shaky piece of wood? so easy, not even gonna...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
This thing is probably one coffee spill away from a bad day.
the easiest solution is that we all just stop coming here to begin with. you first. i'll let you know how it works out.
Ah, the server farm and cube farm converge...
USER: Wow, this thing is cool. Hey, where'd my notepad go?
FRIEND: It's over there on your desktop.
USER: Huh? No it's not. I've looked all over. Not there.
FRIEND: No. It's on your DESKTOP.
USER: *Dawn of realization* Ohhhh.......
And the masses cried out, "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!"
We're supposed to be a bunch of smart geeks here. Slashdotting sites into the next millenium is a technical problem. Why can't we fix this?
The car that John Candy drove in Uncle Buck...it had a certain charm about it because of all the smoking and backfireing.
Thats kind of like the /. effect. Its annoying but it still makes you smile knowing someone, somewhere is confused as hell.
But then he smiles because he realizes that if his server is toast then this months bandwidth bill won't be affected much.
If you did have real fish, you could simply get a link posted to slashdot and have dinner cooked in no-time!
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It seems that to open the drawer, you first have to disconnect the monitors (although that doesn't explain why the vid card is gone).
Wish I could have been there the first time the drawer was opened after everything was plugged in. The look of horror on this guys face as his two flat-screens get yanked off the back of the desk.
You know, it's not night *everywhere* on the planet...
You truly deserve your +1 infomative.
Could this be the first PC which actually *does* have a cup holder?
I am a Karma Library.
The 68K series design, however, was capable of handling a 4Gig address space. The only reason why the 68000 was limited to a 16meg address space was that only 24 of the possible 32 address bits were brought out to the bus. (there was actually a 68012 which was little more than a specialty 68000 with all 32 address pins available).
When the Mac II originally came out, it ran on the 68020 which made it the first general-availability 68K system with a 32bit address space.
Unfortunately, the biggest general-availability memory chips were a whopping 1megabit. This meant that a 2Gigabyte memory module would require 16000 1meg chips. (and that's presuming no parity or ECC!) I did some back-of-the-envelope design work, and concluded that the best design for a 2GB MacII memory module would be to camoflage it as a desk. The top of the desk would hold the memory cards and there would be two pillars. One would be a cooling unit, the other would be the 16KiloWatt power supply. (now you know why I needed a cooling pillar)
I called my (theoretical) creation the MemDesk. Never could find an investor to pay for the development, though.
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I wouldn't advise him to tell women he has a hard drive in his drawers if your Mom is anywhere around.
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