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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!
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 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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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?
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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...
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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.
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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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.
Dude its a pc. Its in a pumpkin, its halloween and most importantly its just COOL and wacky.
that Slashdot editors didn't "squash" this story.
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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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!
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...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."
Sort of like Zen: if you have to ask, you will not understand. There are things that cannot be appreciated with just a superficial view, it requires deep understanding.
Apologies for saying that, but it's the truth...
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.
Yeah I am reinstalling XP just so my dual athlon is stable enough to burn FreeBSD CDs and then I can hopefully do my work without crashes and errors all the time. Gah! I managed to release SproutPaint 0.6.0b despite all that. I am gonna check out the UNIX PalmOS dev tools now.
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A 16 year old kid won a GeForce out of it...
Lighten up.
Did anyone else see this story about a pumpkin computer and immediately think of the Banana Junior 2000?
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Experience comes from bad judgment.
It is official now: people will do ANYTHING to get a story on slashdot ... but it was still cool
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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.
I got all excited, went home and tried it. You know what, nothing sprayed out of my ears. Liar!
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I run Unreal Tournament 2003 on my Linux distro... straight out of the box. Looks as good as the Windows implementation. Given, that's only one game (but there have been other ports), and most are not ever available in a Linux port like that, but let me answer your question as to "why bother". I bother because I like Linux. Games aren't everything, so for the 90 percent of my computing that is not gaming, it's worth it to me to keep my machine Windows free.
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.
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How true!
you hit the nail on the head my friend. just when i start thinking i'm a geek, i'll see something like this that makes me want to go that extra mile next time. ;-)
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> 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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Sorry for freaking you out... but can you say goats.cx
Wacky? Yes
Cool? No
Original? No
Good Idea? No
Sometimes the people who do things like this make me fear for humanity.
Last years was rotting when it was reported here so, it must have really stank when it was demolished.
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..
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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
Otherwise you could be like me and the programmer who picked up a frog princess and stuffed her in his pocket, because a talking frog is really cool...
A pumpkin pc is really cool, too.
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