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Beautiful Case Modding
Miles S.F. writes "Thought you guys might appreciate this little project I've been working on.
This is what happens when the left and right brain get bored and start talking with each other." Excellent case mods, entertaining reading, good ideas, and a solid site design. Worth a read if only to see the case modded to include a furby.
...but it's all Flash :(
There are very few real things in this world...this isn't one of them.
...yes.. I particularly like the simplistic design - a plain grey page with nothing on it...
Maybe you should check your server / pipe can handle a slashdotting before posting your site to slashdot?
What's the advantage of having to click your case to get at the power supply?
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Nice try, come back when you learn some html.
Check out AbiWord.
I'm sorry to disagree with the modder, but to WAKE a furby you shake it. To make it COO, you turn it upside down. The fact that I know this is quite sad.
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
POW
Eight minutes to full Slashdotting!
Woo-Hoo!
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Case modding is slowly becoming more mainstream. While trawling the TV at an ungodly hour last week, I saw an ad for a PC ("Tomorrows technology today" was the catchline, which was funny, given the fact they were using an old ATI Radeon in it...). The side of the case was carved out, had plexiglass fitted, and had neon lights inside. WAY cool looking machine.
I think case modding is rapidly becoming to computers what hot rodding is to cars. More and more people are customising their systems to add some individuality, which is hardly surprising given the prevalence of beige...
..what's so special about it? On every case-mod-page I can find hundreds of those, right? So what's so special that it justifies an own story?
I got my girlfriend a better case mod.
It's crap like that I don't buy from certain vendors.
GET A CLUE - FLASH ISN'T ALL THAT GREAT
I remember those cases from back in the day. Acer had those. They had this wierd handle on the front that flipped down to open the case. Wow, those things were a bitch to take off!
Ah, the last peanut -- overflowing with the oil and salt of its departed brothers. -Homer
Just a comment, most of you case modder types keep refering to that handy clear plastic you use as Lexan... most of the times I've seen the plastic wrap still on it in your photos, it's not Lexan, it's Lucite. These are not the same, Lexan is a tradename for polycarbonate, Lucite is a trade name for acrylic. Acrylic is much, much, much less tough than Lexan (or Hyzod, or Tuffak, or other trade names for polycarbonate), but also a lot cheaper... for case modding purposes, it's fine, but don't get the two confused if you're counting on the impact resistance of Lexan and you put in Lucite...
right now i'm working on building a custom little case small enough to fit underneath the passenger seat of my car, an lcd monitor, a mini keyboard, and i can watch divx on the road, which, in all reality, would be an improvement over my normal driving ability!
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> Thought you guys might appreciate this little project I've been working on
is he ASKING to be slashdotted? what is he, insane?
"Be sure to wet the towel first as they tend to catch fire rather easily"
Was this something you found out from personal experience or just an old case modder's maxim that you're repeating for the sake of posterity?
> This is what happens when the left and right brain get bored and start talking with each other.
No, schizophrenia is what happens when the left and right brain get bored and start talking with each other.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
since I don't really enjoy all the flash ads on the web, I'm not installing flash.
Get rid of the flash requirement, make a real site, and we'll talk.
I posted a mirror here.
A cool site (All that flash stuff will just increase the
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
Is that 'bling' part of the URL the sound of a webhost bill post-slashdot effect?
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
I have an old IBM PS/2 case from the early 90's. It originally housed a 386 processor and an 80 meg SCSI drive, but now it has a 1.1 GHz Pentium 3 and an 80 GIG ATA/100 drive running FreeBSD. Pretty tight.
which browser Taco's using to surf...
I've heard that in the sequel, Vin Diesel hooks a supercharger up to his case fan on his laptop.
evil adrian
18" inch wheels: $1600
ridiculously high functionless wing: $1000
noisy coffee can like tail pipe: $500
mp3 player that resembles furby and takes up the entire back seat: $1200
Knowing you're the liberace of side show circuit with your 115 hp honda civic: Priceless
You thought wrong.
I have felt the same way as he did here. http://www.designmethod.com/bling/v4/bling_04.html
I have two of those and they are a pain in the ass to do anything to. Want to add ram, gonna have to remove the powersupply.
He spends all that time modding multiple cases and a monitor, and there are no Legos in sight! A truly sweet case mod without Legos is like a peanut butter sandwich without jelly.
Listening to people complain that the site is Flash and therefore "SUX" is bizzare. Its like listening to my father complain how the web browsers are annoying since they are nothing like the old bbs. You dont't have to like it, but don't complain when your system can't handle it. It makes you sound childish.
Nice style. I got into modding a few months ago and even got my wife tricking out her box.
Str8Dog
using System.Darkside; public
It appears that a LOT of readers either don't have or have disabled Flash, and I'm one of them. It might be worth waiting until the website repairs their site into something standards-conforming. HTML + PNG preferred.
- David A. Wheeler (see my Secure Programming HOWTO)
Seriously, why does every case design done like this have to have a window and neon? I mean seriously guys, it has been done.
How about a wood case? How about a leather clad case to match your wife's purse? How about a faux fur case? How about a carpet case to match your floor? How about a Shoji-Screen type case? How about a pyramid case? A dice-colored case?
Or how about a case that doesn't slowly cook their users by emitting massive unshielded electromagnetic radiation?
Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
The world is neither black nor white nor good nor evil, only many shades of CowboyNeal.
I hope this guy keeps us updated with his new case mods. Even if you dont like the mods, it is funny as hell to read his account of things.
I think I've discovered two constants in the universe.
1) Slashdot will post just about any case mod "story" that gets submitted.
2) People who submit case-mod "stories", even with the knowledge of what the Slashdot Effect is, will gladly let their web-server burst into flames just so people can see what shaky-handed work they did with a Dremel tool and a piece of aluminum.
...nerds gluing sticks of ram to their "grill?" By the way, dog, thats a tight case, whoday.
s/F/S/. How about meanwhile contributing to a media stunt and reading a Slashdot effect analysis.
It's actually a mediocre mod at best. The most impressive thing is what he did to his monitor.
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I don't know of any great pictures off by heart, so here are two random links:
http://www.coolcasemods.com/gallery.php?p=50
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You can't say they didn't warn you...
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What's really amazing is how much extra effort it takes to make a site that doesn't work on most browsers. You really have to go out of your way to make a glitzy flash thing that I can't see---and then you have to run out of energy/interest at just the right moment, before you can slap together the non-flash version for the rest of us.
This is not a mirror.
Too bad they banned the real moderators.
Slashdot 's editors are dickheads
I get this big grey box which says 'Click' in the center of it. Um. Not really my thing, you know, but I have been to the Guggenheim so I do have a partially open mind on things artistic, so I'll keep my narrow-minded, vitriol filled opinion to myself.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
it is like rice-boys! Both involve the addition of bling bling without actually improving the performance. Case modding is kind of like adding a giant wing to the back of your Civic (only the wing probably decreases performance due to creating less traction on the front-wheel drive propulsion).
It might be worth waiting until the website repairs their site into something standards-conforming. HTML + PNG preferred.
Actually he probably should convert all the images to ASCII so that someone with Lynx can see it. Common, the site isnt Broken cuz its flash. If you dont have falsh installed your missing alot of funny and interesting stuff on the web.
"All I can tell the "lesser of two evils" folks is that if they keep voting for evil, they'll keep getting evil."-Lp.org
I plan to over the winter build a PC into the base of a sofa - iwill act as main file server for mp3's. Makes alot of sence as there is plenty of space and any heat would only act as a heated seat :D. There is also the aspect of having one hell of a noise sepretion unit aka the sofa itself. Of coarse one vigarous romantic fling on said sofa would risk the chance of actualy crashing the server, so a strong sofa will be procured forsafty reasons. I appreciate that it wont have many flashing blueled fans and the like with disco lighting extreme inside but it does pose a pratical use of space and natural sound proofing without excessive costs in uber expensive magneto electro fans with climate controlled RPM and in built drivers for most games - but thats half the fun isn't it.
The side-window mod is so mainstream now that it can only laughingly be referred to as "hot-rodding". Several suppliers now build cases with those nice, EF-emitting windows standard. If you're going to be cutting into your case, you could have at least put a little design into it. Hell, a checkerboard pattern of lucite/metal would have been more interesting.
And on the subject of design: your front page would be a hell of a lot better if you did it in HTML. It's a static page -- nothing's moving around, no music (not that this is a bad thing). You could design a page in HTML with images that looks exactly the same, would be smaller, faster to load, and viewable by those without the Flash plugin. You don't need a forklift when you can just use your hands.
For there godly case design. These are realyl mediocre mods to cases, but if he could get one of those things to look even close to a Mac case, i would be thoroughly impressed.
-"I'm one of those Mac people that will break a bottle on the bar and hold it to your throat for bad-mouthing my system"
In the V3 mod, I really like the CD-ROM modification. I've seen many case mods, but I haven't seen this before.
Basically the CD-ROM runs open, painted nicely, and under a plexiglass opening in the top. You can watch the disc spin. Very nice, something I will keep in mind if/when I get around to doing a case mod.
I also like the heavy use of those $6 rope-lights. Much cheaper/more flexible than neon, though they do get warm (I have one, it's like 35 watts and runs on house current)...
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...it is common knowledge that many motherboard and HD manufacturers will not honor a warranty if their products are used in non-standard cases.
Um, Isn't it a little dangerous to take the cover off of your power supply? I've never tried it myself, but I've always heard that it was bad. I guess it's only dangerous if you touch it though. Good thing he put that handy little finger hole for the kids right in front of it.
...Flash was included in every M$ OS since 98SE -- I doubt he considers it a large issue.
What have you done to Stephen Hawking?
Noooo!!!!!!
My computer works great without any casemodding. (-:
It's a modification to a television, not a computer, but it required infinitely more talent than I've seen in any case modifications posted here. Remembering not to sniff the paint isn't a talent, for most its common sense.
Chris Kuivenhoven is a thief, beware
Back in the day I modded my Furby so It would power on when my comp started up. It was annoying as hell, but it was kinda fun at LAN parties.
However, one of my buddies tried to copy me. Unfortunatly he didnt consult me first and ended up killing his new hard drive cause he had hooked up leads the wrong way.
The moral of the story is dont mess with furbies.
Easy: make you site in fscking Flash.
Sorry, but I can't agree that a site that cannot be viewed without a plugin suffering from a certain sexual perversion can be called "solidly designed"
I passed the Turing test.
I have one machine here that has Flash installed, but Javascript is disabled, so the site is useless anyway [unless it was just not responding due to the /. effect].
Now I'm in danger of being called names for not enabling Javascript, no doubt. It's not even that a site needs to be terribly "standards" conforming -- who cares if the webpages starts with a DOCTYPE or just goes straight to an HTML tag? And while PNG might be nice, GIF and JPEG work just as well.
Ah, well, I wonder how hard it would be to modify the /. preferences to include "Ignore articles that refer to flash-only or javascript-required sites."
Pick One: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~stremler/sigs/sigs.html (Note - disable Javascript first!)
While that page is slashdotted and supposedly in flash, I can't yet judge it. However I can't imagine it being anything truly jaw dropping. Am I the only one who is tired of mods? A interesting little case window, neon, and a water cooled system can only go so far. I'm curious if any one has links to more artistic case mods. I don't wanna see cases that aren't made to be the coolest, smallest, or quietest. I don't wanna see comps that have been stuffed into odd objects. What about the cases that are made to just look stunning and beautiful? What about the cases that wouldn't look out of place at a modern art museum?
Excuse me for being a bit of a troll but what is this got to do with slashdot. There seems to be a gradually detoration of some of the stories posted. Try to keep the news relevant. Funny stories are great but this is just too lame!
taking apart a monitor can be deadly. There's still a fair amount of voltage in monitors.
They should not really be mucked about with by case modders unless they carry lots of life insurance and don't care about getting electrocuted.
If you're going for the "Young Einstein" look, then maybe modding monitor cases could be a lucrative career option for you, but for everyone else? Well, the what-should-be-obvious applies:WARNING! HIGH VOLTAGE!
Thought you guys might appreciate this little project I've been working on. I also appreciate watching my server implode under the weight of a firm /.'ing!
That is soooo wrong!
And a lil PS to all the whiny bitches complainin' bout the site. Boo freakin hoo, cry me a river. Flash may suck, but so did Java, and that didn't stop everyone from mounting it like a rabid dog, eh? Stop yer complainin' and enjoy some resonably-decent mods, wouldya?
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
The plastic from monitor casings ususally contains lead, to absorb radiation. Now that you've removed it, well... how are you feeling?
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alter nates/
I know, I know... it only runs on 9 os's. You're probably using something else, right?
...as they're trying to re-mod the case by melting the server, using the slashdot effect. By clicking that link, you are contributing to a work of art (or at least finding out what a million monkeys really can do)!
Kjella
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Look at "Version 4," the tenth picture. The one talking about how he fit the Dell power supply into the HP case.
How did he do it? He removed the cover to the power supply and mounted it flush to the bottom of the case. That power supply is nekkid in the case. This is going to be his KIDS GAMING COMPUTER. The plexi cover is hinged so that, presumably, the kids can fix the interior components themselves.
Holy $#!^, this is a BAD THING. Kids will be kids, they haven't had basic electrical engineering yet. Opening up a power supply is *always* a bad idea, there are capacitors in there that'll take a dangerously indefinite "while" to discharge when the system is unplugged. I can't stress enough that a naked power supply is a high-amperage electric shock waiting to happen.
Miles, dude, if you're reading this, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT POWER SUPPLY!
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>I know, I know... it only runs on 9 os's.
I thought you said 9... I only counted 3 OSes with current flash support, and 2 of those are really nothing more than upgrades to each other, so I'd really just say there's 2 OSes supported.
I've seen Winmodems with more support than this...
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Hmm, a gray box with no content.
It appears that a LOT of readers either don't have or have disabled Flash, and I'm one of them. It might be worth waiting until the website repairs their site into something standards-conforming. HTML + PNG preferred.
Come on now, you can't be that simple. Since Flash is free, available, and in version 6, its pretty thick to not consider it a standard. There are even programs that produce Flash that are not owned by Macromedia. (ie: coffee cup)
Think before you press the SUBMIT button.
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True dat. Ooh! vectorpark has been updated!
seriously - check out www.mini-itx.com for some greate case mods. they use the low power, how heat via mini-itx motherboards and look perfect for interesting case mod projects. not high power work stations, but just right for pretty media boxes or advanced routeres, even a nice quiet workstation.
Sorry, I got tired of buggy Flash ads causing my browser to spontaneously quit.
I'm using Konqueror compiled with gcc-3.2, and Flash(R)(tm)(brand product) doesn't work for shit, pink boy. Oh well, no big loss.
I agree.
These days javascript and flash are being used for popup-windows and banner graphics. (Not exclusivly, ofcourse, but the most do)
I'm surfing with both javascript and flash disabled, and it's beautiful.
Unfortunately, most web designers today can't manage without neither of them. It's a pitty how they ignore the pleasure of pure HTML pages, it's more powerful than one should guess.
But, hell, I even find frames redundant.
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No, I'm not going to "just install flash"
The major reason to not install it: How the hell do you make it go away? Why can't I disable it, or get a pop-up "Would you like ot view the Flash content on this webpage?" After installing Flash, I see lots of stupid ads that never bugged me before.
Flash was cool like five years ago when gabocorp.com was making us cream our jeans. Now it's basically a glorified pop-up ad, and I don't have the patience any longer.
goats.cx
I don't ever want to see either again.
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No, I'm not going to "just install flash"
then stop bellyaching that you can't see the site and browse to somewhere else.
you were given an option to see the site by installing a plugin. don't want the plugin? then the site obviously doesn't appeal to you enough. your loss, and the webmaster's.
I haven't felt the need to shoot my box since canning WinME in favor of RH7.3.... Bye Bye Lexan...
"How the hell do you make it go away?"
/plugins/ directory and it'll be gone.
Well, if you're using Netscape or Mozilla just remove libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class from your
At least that works on my favorite UNIX-like OSs... it might work with Windows as well, but somehow I suspect there are evil registry keys involved.
Holy shit! Without the metal casing, the radiation will burn him! Thousands of rads of EMF! It's such a big deal! I'm so smart! Etc!
There is a way to turn it on and off at will via shortcuts (in win200), it works well.
I made the same comlaint a wile back, and someone told me how. Unfortunatly, since /.'s search engine leave much to be desired. I can't find the origonal post on how to do it. Hopefully someone will post it again.
No one said till now...Imagine a beowooolf crap of these.
Tat Tvam Asi
What do they do if you attempt to strangle a Furby? :)
But seriously, I think Slashdot submitters should make sure the linked information is on the web. Flash doesn't count.
A tip for Mozilla users:
-- or wherever your plugin directory is. It works with other Mozilla-based browsers such as Phoenix and Galeon. It stops the browser asking if you want to get Flash every time you load a page with a flash file on it. You will get just one more annoying pop-up, on which you can tell it to stop bothering you about plugins.
You can use a special separate instance of Mozilla for when you want to use plugins. It's much less trouble than dealing with them all the time when you're just trying to browse the web.
think about it, on his resume he can put:
"wrote flash program viewed by over 100,000 people!"
and
"/. did a story that used my flash skills"
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You twat.
These case mods are all very nice, but they're all the same: take case, add colour, cut the side out, fit see-thru plastic, stick in a neon and mount an extra fan.
When will the modders move away from using a rectangluar box as the base? Where are the really innovative cases?
More impressed by the monitor mod...
well lets see... ~300k or so for 15+ pictures including thumbnails, and you get them all at once with no server CPU time other than transferring the file.
/. effect. instead of download 10k thumbnail (server request), click (server request), view 90k image, close, repeat 15 times, you click once, download 300k (1 server request total) and you're done.
i think flash probably REDUCED the
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Opening up your monitor should always come with some sort of DEATH IS EMMINANT warning. And running your power supply with the cover off? What the? Especially with little kids around, sheesh.
On a more intelligent note, does anyone have any background or experience with removing the shielding on cases? I remember visiting an engineering firm where they field tested new electronic devices to see if they met FCC requirements for emissions - they noted that they have tested computer equipment and cases before, although they mainly stick to car radios and whatnot, and that they have rejected many test subjects. Most case mods involve some sort of window that I would tend to think would cause interference with adjacent electronic devices. Any thoughts on this, or anyone know of problems setting modded cases next to your monitor/speakers/TV/entertainment equipment? Perhaps all the other devices' shielding is enough to protect it.
There is an open fan on the front of the Kids gaming machine. Just right for the little darlings to stuff candy, straws, pens, peanut butter with jelly and even fingers in to the ~4k RPM fan. EEK!
what is it with you ostriches and hating flash? i mean come on, it's obviously not going to go away just because you want it to, its a trend in web user interfaces that is NOT going to dissapear, it's only going to keep growing. I have worked with selling a lot of websites, and let me tell you EVERY corporate jerk high and low wants flash in their site, it only comes down to wether it's in the budget.
The more you resist the obvious way that UI is moving, the more you become a bitter old codger with your crazy green screen monitors and boxes full of punch cards stacked in the garage that you refuse to throw away. Really, flash is not a demon taint propagated by the man, it's just a feature that a lot of people like and want. I remember when people used to bitch that H3 was good enough for a page header, who needed bloated images sucking up your bandwidth with their 8k download. Don't deny it. You were that guy!
I like this guy.
Heroscape, it's like legos combined with anachronistic wargames.
That you don't have Flash. Get on with your lives already.
We have a mall that is now an indoor flea market. They had these cases w/o the furby in your choice of the color of lights inside.
Kind of neat but I don't know if I wold call it art.
-- Many men would appreciate a woman's mind more if they could fondle it
Spumco Studios did more for Flash as art form than anyone. "Weekend Pussy Hunt," "The Goddamn George Liquor Show"...great fsckn stuff. Only people in their league was Camp Chaos, famous for "Napster Bad!" and "This Thing Of Ours" which was The Sopranos before The Sopranos were The Sopranos. I think they're still around: http://www.campchaos.com/
Spumco now have the happy situation of being busy with two different projects, "The Ripping Friends" and the revival of "The Ren & Stimpy Show" so they can't really spend much more time doing online cartoons anymore. Their website isn't even up anymore, alas. But the prospect of more Ren & Stimpy episodes and more Ripping Friends episodes makes their web silence bearable.
Spumco contributed a lot of ideas to Macromedia during the evolution of the Flash product. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on what you think about Flash. But many of the improvements in the program during its evolution are directly traceable to feedback from Spumco.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
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I'm not making any judgements, just making an observation.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Anytime I've messed with ac stuff around my monitor, it causes interference like there's no tomorrow... anyone else had problems like that?
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>You twat.
Oooh... a new one.
You're still a bit late on the ball, I might say. I think you're number 7 this week. Better luck next week!
If you short large capacitors to ground, you are likely (At best) going to vaporize the screwdriver you attempted to do this with. Don't ask me how I know. Please use a proper capacitor discharge apparatus, and if you don't know how to build one or where to get one, then do not attempt this. Power supplies and monitors can carry lethal charges for days or weeks after they are unplugged.
..don't panic
some wizard once told me how i can make a million dollars by saying a spell he told me
unfortunatly i cant remember it either
This is a short-sighted attitude. The web is a loose collection of standards including things like HTML. Sites like this are just creating a standards-compliant frame as a wrapper to a proprietary Flash application. While everyone else is realizing that their content should be accessible, we have "web designers" like this that build content that can only be viewed in a web browser that has the proprietary plugin.
I don't understand why Malda said this was "solid site design". It's anything but.
This is the difference between people that publish information on the web for everyone to browse, and those that want their interactive glossy brochure available on the web for "most" people to see.
Just like a market sprang up to take advantage of idiot teenage kids by selling them coffee cans mufflers for $300 a piece, I'm sure an industry will also spring up to sell heatsinks engraved with Wozniak's autograph and licked by Torvalds' pet goat for $500 a pop.
No wait, how many of these teeny bopper leet-freaks even know who Woz is?
Not having Flash installed isn't causing me to miss the hilarity of your spelling!
Why should I have to install a plug-in to view this content? This guy has basically decided he doesn't want to make the information on his site available in a standard fashion, so he went the "graphics design" approach and wrote it all in a little Flash application instead.
.exe file with my nifty little animations and custom display wisgets and all. Windows people can just click on 'Open' to start up my "web site", and to hell with other OS's that don't have a Windows compatibility layer.
If he doesn't want to bother making his information available for those that don't want to or can't install this plug-in, I'm not going to bother installing that plug-in to view his content. *shrug* It's really not worth it to me.
Standards should always be the lowest-common denominator, with fluff like Flash used for tasks where it's appropriate, and only as a supplement. Here it appears he's relying 100% on it for his entire web site (or is it a "flash site" now?).
I might as well build a web site that just contains a Windows
I agree, browsing without flash and javascript is NOT hampering in any way. It makes it much more pleasant, and if a site requires those to be browsed, it's not worth visiting (Of course, something like a site exclusively for flash games is the exception).
beeeee-utiful.
At least you're not a Lynx user:
"I'd like to see that case mod, but, man, that guy's using images..."
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next time, remember to close your I tags, retard
It appears that a LOT of readers either don't have or have disabled Flash, and I'm one of them. It might be worth waiting until the website repairs their site into something standards-conforming. HTML + PNG preferred.
give me a break... you know what you are? a standards snob. is xhtml ok? will gif cut the mustard if it's lighter and looks the same? do you roll over all of the images of every site you visit and get their url to make sure they conform to your standards?
marshall mcluhan aside, the medium is not the entirety of the message. it's really pigheaded to reject content out of hand based on the delivery format.
flash is an open file format (look here and the latest version of flash has gone a long way towards meeting accessibility requirements. so suck it up, and stop spreading FUD.
Just raise the taxes on crack.
you are arguing that something need only be free, available, and at version 6 to be a standard.
that makes no sense.
hmm, my html got messed up. you can find the article about flash accessibility here: http://www.nngroup.com/reports/accessibility/flash /
Just raise the taxes on crack.
They have put mini-itx motherboards in everything
Check out www.mini-itx.com
I let animated GIFs play through once, as long as they don't repeat.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
You're right! ...
Why don't all plugins pop up a confirmation every time one detects it is required to view the page I just clicked on.
This is "insecure/violates my privacy/does something I didn't authorize......".
Can we get the Opera guys to put in a prompt that reads my home page setting so when I start my browser I'll see "Are you sure you want Opera to access the Internet at ?"
This would make me very happy.
WARNING!!! Sarcasm, Sarcasm, Sarcasm, Sarcasm,
Y'know, this always annoys me... If people want to browse without flash or javascript, more power to them, but don't try to tell the world it's evil and unnecessary.
Yes, you can make a perfectly good information bearing website out of pure HTML. If you're a company trying to promote your business, or just a person trying to promote themselves, then you probably do want to use the most backward-compatable code you possibly can. But not all of the internet is about doing business. I know it's hard to imagine, given that it has more ads than NYC, but there are parts of the internet not entirely about self-promotion.
HTML and its variants can also be an artistic medium; easily as much so as actual programming languages or traditional media. Maybe you believe that nothing on a webpage should move, but perhaps a web designer with an artistic streak feels that his personal, non-promotional webpage really Needs to have a spiffy rotating interface. If you don't like it, don't go look at it, but don't try to tell us all how to design webpages. This guy's page is just about his personal case-modding. He's not trying to sell cases or promote himself for something. He's not even offering any content that you might really need access to. He's writing about his artistic expression, and I can't think of any more appropriate subject matter to be creative in the formatting of. I'm sure he could have made a very sleek, stream-lined, professional page in pure HTML with PNG images, but he apparently didn't want to. I happen to have flash and javascript both enabled, and (as a former professional web designer with an artistic bent who never used flash or javascript for a professional page) I thought it looked pretty good.
So if you don't like flash, then fine, turn it off and be happy. But don't say that if it's not pure HTML it's not worth looking at. It's like saying that painters should only be allowed to use black and white, so as to not offend the colorblind.
"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live" -- MLK, Jr.
Although I think looks can get old. I used iMacs all the time in High School. Yes, they were pretty but eventually you don't even care and you just want the POS to stop crashing and you want more than one button.
Case mods are different than that Macintosh crap. It's your own creation, YOU worked on it. Apple wants you to 'think different' but they are not allowing you to be creative and are basically offering the typical tract homes, that generally are the same but come in 4 similar models that have little differences.
Case mods, on the other hand, are your own creation. It's like comparing a hot rod daddy bought you to restoring a Galaxie 500 from a rusty body frame.
Macs are toasters and always will be toasters.
The worst part is, my company is developing products in Flash. They wanted me to help, so I installed their content-generation tool, Flash MX. I was afraid, but I guess so many people hate what they create with the damn thing, they forced the issue--there's a box at one point that allows you to not install the plugin for IE. AND IT DEFAULTS TO NO! I just about crapped my pants when I saw that.
Jouster
Do you have over 1900 comments? Why Not?
'Cause we have a life/job/anything better to do?
Not a slight intended, but 4 days ago it was "Do you have over 1600 comments? Why Not?"
Now really!!??
I can name three Os's that run Flash right off the top of my head, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
"Tricking out her box" (on images.google.com) is "What prompted the transformation in my political thinking"
http://pcblues.com - Digits and Wood
>Not a slight intended, but 4 days ago it was "Do you have over 1600 comments? Why Not?"
:-)
;-)
>Now really!!??
With all that commenting, I got behind. You can verify that amount of comments by checking my user info if you'd like, though.
>'Cause we have a life/job/anything better to do?
I think you're the first person to say that and then say they aren't trying to slight me...
At least you're not psychotic... [for some reason they've given up posting today... bummer... what will I amuse myself with now?]
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
do the dew!
They make it faster!
That be whack, yo.
>I can name three Os's that run Flash right off the top of my head, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
Yes, but only 2 of them run flash made this millenium.
I guess the saying is that if you need last year's software TODAY, Macromedia is your kinda company!
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Just install the mozilla plugin, duh.
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugin.
Geez - you just have to d/l, gzip -d, untar and cp the files to
Someones already done it.l
Sorta.
http://www.trygve.com/furbeowulf.htm
I bet you never knew they had a furbechannel interface...
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
...more of your wife in her swimsuit...woo hoo!
http://www.designmethod.com/JWF/Swim/
I'll take a picture #9, but could you have her switch the the bikini next time? Thanks man. Oh yeah, um, nice case.
Why is that no one takes the time to link their links anymore? it takes like two seconds and saves god knows how many people from having to cut, open a new browser window manualy, and paste. You also don't have to wory about slashdot putting spaces in your links that way either.
Im seeing this more and more all the time.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I wouldn't go so far as to call these mods 'beautyfull'. The Furby-modded case shure is cool and shows a stylish consistency thoughout - allthough I don't like the style.
But the rest? Cutting holes, spraying bizare paint and setting up even more bizare lighting isn't what I call beautyfull.
In fact, that monitor-mod really is ugly as hell.
I do admire his craftmanship and clean work though. He must have a good shop in order to get that finished in 6 hours.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Disable: %windir%\SYSTEM32\regsvr32.exe C:\WinNT\System32\Macromed\Flash\swflash.ocx /u
Enable: %windir%\SYSTEM32\regsvr32.exe C:\WinNT\System32\Macromed\Flash\swflash.ocx
That's what I have for my shorcuts, you may have to change the path a bit for your box.
The guy knows enough to use an tag inside his tag, so it works across browsers, but he can't supply some alt-text saying, "You must have the Flash plug-in to view this site; get it here"?
For that matter, there was nothing about this site that called for the use of Flash: no music, no animation or movies, no multimedia of any kind. It could have been done just as easily, and more accessibly (with a smaller download), in HTML+CSS. Flash and SVG are great solutions *when there's a problem* to be solved! Seems like overkill to use them as a default, and not provide a text+image fallback.
Not bad mods, though, especially the Furby face and open CD-ROM. And the commentary was pretty entertaining.
> If you dont have falsh installed your missing alot of funny and interesting stuff on the web.
Like what, for example? I'm genuinely curious. The best use of Flash I've seen is for insane animations ala Yatta. That hardly qualifies as interesting though...
I know a guy who is an Ph.D. organic chemist who spent three years at GE synthesizing Lexan derivatives of Lexan. This is what he says.
"The Lexan based material Paul is speaking of is a proprietary laminate of bisphenol-A polycarbonate and a silicone polymer. If you take some Lexan you bought at the store and tested its bulletproof behavior on a live subject, the subject would be injured and perhaps killed."
I had a machine open one time and was mucking about. Then I saw the shiny topped capacitors. I knew perfectly well what capacitors did. For some reason, though, I was uncontrollably compelled to touch one with the screwdriver. Well, I won't be doing THAT again!
Everyone with mod points should mod down this guys comments! Stop his obsessive posting! Us the mod 'overrated' to stay out of metamod. With enough downmods he will only be able to post twice a day...
Hello. Please read my journal. You're the feature of the week!
While I hate flash too, it also supports (albe it via 3rd party extras) - BeOS.
See what more do you need?
>See what more do you need?
:-(
Recent support?
I don't know what version is for BeOS, but I doubt it's 6.0 -- in this case because the OS is dead (so I can forgive Macromedia for that)
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
How about a wood case? How about a leather clad case to match your wife's purse?...
I want to see a computer screen built into the top of Drillzilla so that the Robotwars cameras can display what it's saying as it runs around the arena. Like, "Ouch!, Got ya now, ya bastard!", etc. It would have to have some decent shock-absorbing system, possiblly diluted petroleum jelly.
BTW, I can't find much about Drillzilla's drive mechanism and high horsepower rating, it seems to be unique. Does anyone have any good reference URLs about how it works?
Paul
Best case mod I've seen. http://www.vulnerable.org/rand/only_mac_id_buy.jpg
Why do I M2 everything negatively?
and if we're playing old distributions... whatever happened to Yggdrasil? :)
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