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PumpkinPC v1.0 Makes Its Hallowe'en Debut
vivIsel writes "I just recently created the PumpkinPC v1.0 for the Hack-O-Lantern contest at Bjorn3D. I thought the Slashdot community would get a kick out of this--it being Halloween, and all. I just hope it doesn't rot too soon." Hopefully, the pumpkin has survived the trick-or-treaters.
It's running Windows, that's kinda scary!
Its running Windows 98. Isn't halloween scary enough?1
Make a PDA from a gourd.
vivIsel, congrats on the second place win. Use that geforce well =]
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OC this mother, stuff the seeds back in, and you'll have a tasty treat in the morning!!
I notice this type of article is posted on slashdot after midnight pacific coast time, alot.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
That's a pretty boring carving.
I saw this thing ago last year, except it ran linux, Jack-O-Linux
On the 2nd place finish, I hope you don't put your nice new prize in the pumpkinPC though :)
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No manual entry for
It'd be a Hack-O-Lantern =)
Imagine a pumpkin patch^H^H^H^H^H^H^H beowulf cluster of these =)
Why bother baking those seeds when you could just use an Intel chipset?
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
There is something fundamentally wrong with this.
This hack-o-lantern only won second place, actually. You need to check out the Bjorn3d link to see the winner of the contest.
why do this sort of stuff ?, because you can and its fun :)
You know you've spent too much time reading slashdot when your first reaction isnt "They put a PC in A pumpkin?!?!"
But is: "Hmm I could think of three ways to build a bigger, faster, Dual Jackelandern POWER PUMPKIN!!!"
I think I need to go lay down now...
-- If at first you don't succeed, lie!
Well, what's the coolest thing YOU ever put a computer in? The trunk of your car? Bah. Besides, what else are you going to do with the guts from an old HP Pavilion?
This "case mod" if you can call it that totally rules. The article is thorough and has many pictures, and it's surviving the slashdot effect rather nicely.
I give this one 7 out of 10. I'm deducting a few points because I didn't see the BIOS screen, and because he was too wussy to run StarCraft on it.
Keep up the good work, son!
Coming soon... Rotting deer carcass PC. The first dual booting roadkill. It needs a little debugging first. I'm using the antlers for the Wi-Fi antenna.
Dammit Taco, quit posting anonymously.
If you're modding this down for off-topic, be GRATEFUL that you didn't read the parent.
Slashdot...because it's nice to know you're not the weirdest person in the world after all...
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This is by far the most disgusting mod I've ever seen. The blood red keyboard gives me a headache. Nevertheless, a very impressive job technically and creatively.
Now a Pumpkin in a PC.... that would be something... actually generalise it. The first ever PC Oven, don't both with fans or heat sinks turn a rack of PCs into....
The first computer powered Aga Oh yes, think of it now. No longer will you not have time to cook and eat, because your cooker is right in front of you.
To get the required heat will need some additional engineering but a 64 way beowulf cluster should be enough. Soon cooking books will have references to "Gas Mark 5, or 10 processors at 100%".
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This may be a lame reply, but...
That thing is butt ugly. And yeah, it will eventually start to rot and smell. Just what one wants in their computer romm eh?
Why take the time to do this? For some stupid contest? I don't get it.
I'd rather spend a couple of hours doing something to advance my skills like learning a new language or learning how to do something new in a language I already know.
You know, something that may help me make money at some point, or at least keep my job when my company starts shipping some operations off to India or Lithuania.
I think these case mods are getting out of hand... they're silly and useless.
Huh?
Looks like apple has some competition
That is quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever seen
if I was actually funny, I'd be comedian, so instead this will just be another worthless /. post
The Bjorn3D site has more pics of this guy's pumpkin pc. It also has pics of the first place winner, Pimpkin Mark 4.
that Slashdot editors didn't "squash" this story.
It's not possible to say something witty for such a dumb post.
This is one of the first PC mods out there that will change color and shape over time. From Orange to a styleish black. And it round sphere shape into the more easably stackable pancake shape. The smell it gives off will last a lot longer then any scented oil.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
And for next year.... the "Roasted Turkey with mashed potatos and gravy PC" - Nice work!
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Yeah it's quite interesting... But.... isn't Halloween already OVER!?
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What about:
You know you've spent too much time reading slashdot when your first reaction isn't "They put a PC in a pumpkin?!?!"
But is: "Hmmm, I'm pretty sure they did this last year too!"
Well I run win2k as a gaming OS but I'm pretty smart.
The average gamer needs to run win98 or XP if they want to have a chance of playing the latest games. Linux is just not a feasable solution. Even things like WINE do not work with most games.
cases, a pumpkin, teddy bear, I wonder if the editors would post a story about the goatse.cx guy building a computer in his ass.
what about when the pumpkin starts decaying? It'll literally become the stinkiest PC I've ever heard of! :)
Not only will it heat your room, it'll also now cook your food!
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
LinuxPC inside a thanksgiving TURKEY! Yeah! Thank you for giving me this great idea! Cables and cords come out of turkeys ass!
...instead of Win98, would it then be the Great Pumpkin?
Er, wrong Linus. Nevermind...
I looked at the pictures of that oven. Given that it looks like the front of that cast iron beast probably gets hot enough to fry an Pentium 4, why would you want this thing in your kitchen? Especially in summer?
I can imagine friends, lounging in the kitchen while you're baking something, someone leans against your new AGA stove and gets the AGA logo branded on their ass.
"We're sorry, but the website you're trying to reach has been disconnected."
Well I run win2k as a gaming OS but I'm pretty smart. The average gamer needs to run win98 or XP if they want to have a chance of playing the latest games. Linux is just not a feasable solution. Even things like WINE do not work with most games.
XP is, in all essence, Windows 2000 version 2, and is largely parallel with 2000 for gaming. 2000 wasn't a good choice for gaming in the early days because the drivers just weren't there for multimedia hardware: Soundblaster, Geforce, etc-- all of them had hackneyed, poor performance and poor compatibility drivers. As Microsoft made it clear that it was the future direction they got their ass in gear and made drivers that often exceed the speed of the 95/98/ME machines. As it stands if I were given a choice between 2000 and 98, I'd take 2000 hands down.
Windows ME
Any sufficiently advanced influence is indistinguishable from control.
Did anyone else see this story about a pumpkin computer and immediately think of the Banana Junior 2000?
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
how about a Beowulf cluster of these?
- Bill
You know you spend too much time on slashdot when you spell Jack-O-Lantern "Jackelandern." Whoa.
If he's not a Mac user then why the hell did he carve the Apple logo in the pumpkin?
Shouldn't this have a dual G4 in it? The hole in the front appears to be shaped like an Apple. Though, we can't compare those to pumpkins...
Nice, but this funnier.
> Well, what's the coolest thing YOU ever put a computer in?
Bend over, I'll show you.
Why not give us a link to the actual pumpkin so we can slashdot it, then take pictures when it explodes.
And here I thought nothing was a bigger waste of time (not to mention more hazardous) then the coffee maker mod. (Oh, forgot about the christmas tree web server.)
Really, couldn't these guys do something more productive, like pr0n surfing?
But then I guess I looked...
Acquiescence leads to obliteration
MMMMMMMmmmmmmmm fresh pumpkin pie... wha... huh?.... damn we first pumpkin ever slashdotted.
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How long before that thing caught fire?
Dude, you're gettin' a vegetable!
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if he were that concerned about it rotting too soon. Talk about rot from the inside.
"Hey, Jethro, let see if we can put all the pc's components into this n and see if we can make an x-pc".
...and don't say "because it was there". Cases with craftsmenship is one thing, but enbedding a pc in a pile of crap is lame.
This is getting silly. What's the point?
You know, if the guy did some research on enamels and stuff, he could have coated/soaked the pumpkin with something so that it could last indefinately.
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This is the dumbest fucking mod I've ever seen. What next, mod your MOM, waterballoon mod, cement block mod? Give me a break.
Sure, but if you take the pages from one of them good bibles with the shiny gold edges, the chemical reaction from burning the gold leafing will cause your brain cells to start spraying out of your ears like a can of Right Guard with an icepick in the side.
It happened to me. Someday, it'll happen to all of you.
This is the way to do it!
Oh...just saw the pics. Never mind.
Even if they are made of junk components, I'd hate to see the local little monsters smash those jack-o-lanterns.
Interrobang, wincing in agony
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
...that no matter what you do, there's always someone out there doing something even more retarded.
(; This ;D was ;) a :D good (; article.
* Legos
* Tinker Toy
* Erector set (anyone remember these from the 60's?)
btw, kudos to the pumpkin guy!
> The average gamer needs to run win98 or XP if they
> want to have a chance of playing the latest games.
Really? Every computer in our house runs Debian, and we play lots of games. My brother is a graphic artist and sells tropical fish; he's not a computer expert, and doesn't seem to have any trouble with...
Oh, you mean you play the games on your PC? I used to do that when I ran Win98 (right before + after it came out). That was hellish. Thanks, Sony, Sega, and Nintendo!
In all seriousness, if you "just want to play games", it's not worth your time to mess around with a PC for doing so. Two games sometimes want different versions of a video driver. The hardware is expensive (I'll bet your video card cost more than our GameCube, didn't it?). You have to deal with booting (and crashing). I'm happy to run NES emulators on my machine (The Guardian Legend is just fun sometimes, OK?) and simple games like liquidwar, but all of the games that interest me (such as Grandia Extreme) are on the consoles anyway.
I use Linux on my desktop for accomplishing things, since I think it's the OS best suited for doing so. I use consoles to play games for the same reason.
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Wouldn't it be appropriate to get an ex-Penguin properly taxidermized, and construct a Linux machine inside of that? Eyes that light up with disk activity?
Sorry for freaking you out... but can you say goats.cx
There are sprays available for carved pumpkins which coat the inside to prevent moisture loss. You can also use petroleum jelly.
Man, if I'd only known about this, I could have built a Pumpkin ][e from all the old apples I have in my basement..
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
some of the biggest geeks I've ever seen. GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKS!!!!!!!! How about a Cactus computer? Or could you make one out of one of those giant stuff Pikachus?
catgirls and fairies
so (-1, Troll), yet so (+5, Insightful)
Hope it can survive a SmashDotting!!! Get it? Smash pumpkin + slashdot effect? And so forth...
You better hope I never meet you in person.
Don't even try and picture how he did his mod.
After the Children of Israel had wandered for thirty-nine years
in the wilderness, Ferdinand Feghoot arrived to make sure that they would
finally find and enter the Promised Land. With him, he brought his
favorite robot, faithful old Yewtoo Artoo, to carry his gear and do
assorted camp chores.
The Israelites soon got over their initial fear of the robot and,
as the months passed, became very fond of him. Patriarchs took to
discussing abtruse theological problems with him, and each evening the
children all gathered to hear the many stories with which he was programmed.
Therefore it came as a great shock to them when, just as their journey was
ending, he abruptly wore out. Even Feghoot couldn't console them.
"It may be true, Ferdinand Feghoot," said Moses, "that our friend
Yewtoo Artoo was soulless, but we cannot believe it. He must be properly
interred. We cannot embalm him as do the Egyptians. Nor have we wood for
a coffin. But I do have a most splendid skin from one of Pharoah's own
cattle. We shall bury him in it."
Feghoot agreed. "Yes, let this be his last rusting place."
"Rusting?" Moses cried. "Not in this dreadful dry desert!"
"Ah!" sighed Ferdinand Feghoot, shedding a tear, "I fear you do not
realize the full significance of Pharoah's oxhide!"
-- Grendel Briarton "Through Time & Space With Ferdinand
Feghoot!"
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