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Indiglo Clock Case Mod

Posted by Hemos on from the time-to-check-the-time dept.

WEEEEEEE writes "Just saw over at GideonTech where they just put up a new Indiglo clock mod for a computer case. With avid LAN party go'ers around here, seems like a easy to do mod to keep track of time while you're fraggin' away. More on it over the HOWTO area."

136 comments

  1. Redundant by lexcyber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This feels like there is like one casemod story to many. - Ok, we get it. You can drill holes, put lights, glasses - etc. etc. in your cases. - HotRod Cars has been around for ages, nothing really new about em.

    Only thing that happens is that /. will kill yet another cablemodem or overtraffic som poor bastards co-loc account.

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    1. Re:Redundant by catch23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      4 posts and now the page won't load already!!

    2. Re:Redundant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, I agree.
      Why can't there be a "Mods" section to Slashdot where all these stories go? Does anyone even have any meaningful comments to make on stories like this?

      90% of the posts can be categorized as:
      - first posts
      - Simpsons quotes
      - 1. Crap Idea, 2. ???, 3. Profit
      - "Wow! I mis-read the headline as 'You are a geek' LOL"
      - What is the point of this story [this post]
      - Lame comment about Slashdotting
      - Grammar/spelling correction posts
      - goatse.cx
      - Numerous posts asking questions answered in the article
      - Numerous RTFA posts
      - Misc bitching about repeat stories, old news, etc.

      Please, if you have nothing meaningful or amusing to say, don't bother saying anything.

      Thanks.

    3. Re:Redundant by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 1

      But this one is really cool - it has 24" chrome wheels, fully hydraulic suspension, and it's covered in Nike stickers.

    4. Re:Redundant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This feels like there is like one casemod story to many.

      The joke's on you pal, you took the time to read the blurb even after you realized it was about case modding, then went to the effort of whining about it in a post.... There is nothing for you to see here, just move along.

    5. Re:Redundant by triumphDriver · · Score: 1

      Maybe we need to start a http://www.riceboypage.com/ for modders. looks fast but what do you really have under the hood?

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  2. Now all my system needs... by DarkHand · · Score: 5, Funny

    is an old CD-ROM converted into a cupholder, and a peltier-based beverage cooler. Swank!

    1. Re:Now all my system needs... by EmagGeek · · Score: 2
      is an old CD-ROM converted into a cupholder,

      Hit the Eject button... just don't call technical support when your cupholder breaks :)

    2. Re:Now all my system needs... by ianjk · · Score: 1

      when I get time, I should really equip my 486 with a fully functional toaster.

  3. Is it like TIMEX? by whiteranger99x · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does the PC "Take a licking and keeps on ticking?" ;)

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    1. Re:Is it like TIMEX? by Russellkhan · · Score: 1

      It had better, with my record at LAN parties!

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    2. Re:Is it like TIMEX? by Nexx · · Score: 1

      Given the rather instantaneous /.'ing, apparently not.

  4. Didn't work.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I tried it. Didn't work.

  5. Just Announced.. by raiyu · · Score: 4, Funny

    The new indiglo clock server mod, counts the number of seconds between being slashdotted and the server dieing! Reverse your kit today! ^_^

    1. Re:Just Announced.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This mod will also serve as a (hopefully) nice example of the necessity of fault current protection switches. The guy squeezes the mains power cord through a gap between the power supply and the case, without any protection whatsoever and has the clock PSU dangling in his computer case without the protection of the clock's case. Hey buddy, people who realize that they are not electrical engineers but still do this kind of stuff are stupid and need to take a closer look at this site.

  6. I could see this becoming a standard feature... by Trillan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...in a few years.

    I mean, microwaves have clocks. They don't actually need to know the time (except under rare circumstances). Ditto ovens, coffee makers, etc, etc.

    Computers, though, actually need to keep track of the time. Most are set reasonably accurately. So why not?

    1. Re:I could see this becoming a standard feature... by Kirby-meister · · Score: 1

      Microwaves need a timer, though. Computers more likely need scheduled events.

    2. Re:I could see this becoming a standard feature... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What kind of computer do you own that doesn't have a clock?

    3. Re:I could see this becoming a standard feature... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As far as timekeeping goes, microwave clocks are far more accurate than the typical PC clock... but I digress.

      When you are using your computer, what piece do you spend most of your time looking at?
      If you're like many typical users (thinking along the lines of this becoming "standard") then your computer is probably under your desk, or somewhere that's slightly more out of the way to look at than say... your monitor.

      Hmmm. If there were only a way to somehow display the time on your monitor. Perhaps in the lower right-hand corner of the screen? I wonder if that could be done?

  7. I don't get it.... by Suicide · · Score: 1

    I always have plenty of available clocks around.

    First, my watch, then my cell phone, then, when all else fails, there's always that little clock in the bottom right corner, opposite of the start button. (Yes, Windows. I am a gamer.)

    Lighted fans, windows letting massive RF out to disrupt ham radio/give cancer/whatever, cold cathode lights, are there any case mods that actually have any functional use, or do those just not make it as stories because of lack of coolness factor?

    1. Re:I don't get it.... by Methuseus · · Score: 1

      I have a linux box and a Win box. Both have the time in the bottom right corner. It sorta makes sense to me to have it there, even if KDE hadn't done that as a default.

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    2. Re:I don't get it.... by Kevin+Burtch · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well, I cut a hole in (the back of) my case and
      mounted a fan (with a guard) to draw air across my
      extra hard drives... I mounted them by attaching
      four sheetmetal strips to tabs at the top of the
      case above the power supply (it's a full tower).

      These two mods allow me to add 5 more drives to the
      case, and keeps them (and the rest of the case)
      cool. Barracudas run too darned hot without a
      serious airflow over them.

      I also clipped apart a pile of "Y" power connectors
      and soldered them together (with heat-shrink) to
      make a power-bus. This eliminates the considerable
      instability caused by daisy-chaining "Y" connectors.
      My system had 11 drives, but the power supply only
      had 4 power connectors... each "Y" only adds one
      extra connector, so it was a huge array of them
      before I did this. It makes the wiring much neater
      too, at least the power wiring (I still have 2
      SCSI busses throughout the case).

      It's not glitzy, but it's functional.

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    3. Re:I don't get it.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >...and soldered them together (with heat-shrink)...

      Damn, I gotta get me some of that auto-soldering heat-shrink! Suhwheeet!

  8. Way to go! /.ed by cdf12345 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well pat yourselfs on the back, gideontech.com is effectively slashdotted.

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  9. inventing a case mod... by pctainto · · Score: 1, Funny

    Frink: Uh, all you have to do is think of things that people need, but which don't exist yet.
    Homer: You mean like an electric blanket mobile?
    Frink: Uh, well... possibleh... or, you could take something that already exists, and find a new use for it. Like..
    Homer: Hamburger earmuffs!
    Frink: Uh I suppose that would qualify.

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  10. A good question to ask with casemods is... by venomkid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...does it make the computer a better *computer*?

    If it doesn't, i'm afraid i'm not that interested.

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    1. Re:A good question to ask with casemods is... by 68K · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You may not be interested in a mod that doesn't improve the computer's performance, but surely you can see why people do this kind of thing? To make their box look cooler and more interesting than the standard beige box. I know every kid and his dog has a window and cold cathode lighting in their machine these days, but these people (myself included) are no 'worse' than people who decorate their cars with fluffy dice, bodykits, etc. They don't improve how the car runs, but (when properly done) can sure make it look better.

      I'm windowing/lighting one of my old PC's 'cos it's going to be a backup machine/MP3 player in my living room, and when I'm done with it it'll definitely look better than a beige box in the corner of the room. Also, it gives me something to do 'cos I'm bored out of my mind at home. :-)

      Cheers,
      68K.

    2. Re:A good question to ask with casemods is... by R.Caley · · Score: 2
      [fluffy dice] don't improve how the car runs, but (when properly done) can sure make it look better.

      Cars are just metal boxes with a wheel at each corner, the only way to make them look better ir to put them throug a scrap yard and recycle the metal into something interesting.

      Same goes for beige box computers. Putting a hole in the side just gives you and ugly box with an ugly hole. What's the point? Stick it under the desk or put a plant in front of it and use the effort/cash to do something which has some chance of atually improving something.

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    3. Re:A good question to ask with casemods is... by 68K · · Score: 1
      Cars are just metal boxes with a wheel at each corner
      Ah, I guess you drive a Volvo. ;-)
      the only way to make them look better ir to put them throug a scrap yard and recycle the metal into something interesting.
      Wow, I really picked a bad analogy, didn't I? You really seem to hate cars...
      Same goes for beige box computers. Putting a hole in the side just gives you and ugly box with an ugly hole. What's the point?
      Because it makes it look better, that's all. Also, why not?
      Stick it under the desk or put a plant in front of it and use the effort/cash to do something which has some chance of atually improving something.
      Would you decorate your house, seeing as it doesn't actually improve anything? Why bother with painting the walls, seeing as most of us only stare at the TV when we're at home, anyway? Man, we could take all our spare cash and effort and donate it to good causes if we really wanted to improve things, but I bet most of us don't do that, do they?
    4. Re:A good question to ask with casemods is... by R.Caley · · Score: 2
      Wow, I really picked a bad analogy, didn't I? You really seem to hate cars...

      Not really, it's just that they are so BORING. Car designers are like PC designers and mobile phone designers. They all make a big fuss about lways coming up with essentially the same design as everyone else. Look at a car from 50 years ago and one from this year, the designs are only trivially different, still a box with a wheel near each corner. Of course it is really the consumers who drive the conformity.

      My point wasn't that it doesn't make sense to make things look better, but that cutting a hole in a beige box and panting it blue doesn't cut it. As I said, putting a plant in front of it would ave more positive effect for less effort.

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  11. Slashdot is just dying by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With all these casemod stories, Slashdot is just trying to get a foothold in the nu-geek community -- the kind who was raised by Windows, is addicted helplessly to online gaming, always wears Slipknot t-shirts, always believes all the hardware and game hype that every crap hardware/gaming site out there says, and doesn't even know jack shit about coding, *nix, or computer science as they only care about spurious issues like ATI vs. Nvidia -- but they try to pass themselves off as a Linux hackers and anti-Microsoft rebels, and somehow gravitate towards slashdot after they run Linux for a week and give up on it.

    Every single one of you knows who I'm talking about -- mostly college freshmen and high-schoolers who are nothing more than console gamers with top-of-the-line PC equipment that is only used as a forum posting, warez-downloading, gaming machine and not for anything remotely constructive or interesting.

    They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience. Slashdot should run less stories about casemods and more about phsyics breakthroughs, Linux standards, Microsoft's crimes, what's going on in Congress.

    1. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Clay+Pigeon+-TPF-VS- · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Not everyone that likes keeping up on tech news has to be a programmer or run nothing but *nix.

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    2. Re:Slashdot is just dying by HerbieStone · · Score: 2, Insightful
      AH, the good old times

      You know, my coworker knows a lot about the good old times. They used those brand new Mainfraims. Everything just worked. But nowadays everyone uses those strange PC's. Nothing works anymore. He wishes everthing was like in the old days.

      I can understand, that people liked how it used to be. But time is allways moveing forward. Plus, people tend to forget bad stuff faster than the good things. This makes for a skewed memory of past things. That's why I'm a little skeptical about the good-old-time stories.

    3. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You know, even though you troll a bit now and then for laughs, they're always good trolls. But this isn't.. this really is insightful, and the best thing I've read here for a while.

    4. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell it to the Marines.

    5. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      by all means please give a real and complete list of all the "crap" hardware sites out there. i would like to see it.

    6. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Erik+Hollensbe · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Isn't there room for both?

      Myself, I have a couple of linux machines for development and a windows machine for gaming. I enjoy both aspects of the spectrum.

      Personally, why do you guys keep posting this drivel instead of not frequenting the site?

      They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience.

      Exactly what is the core audience here? Do you work for OSDN marketing? Would you like to present some figures? I thought so.

      Slashdot is FUN. I don't consider it fun in the sense of learning new API's or algorithms, but fun in the 'leisure' sense.

      One of these days people are going to realize, that the bigger a publication gets, no matter WHAT field(s) it covers, the less specialized it is going to be.

      And if you weren't bitching, it'd be the other half of the /. populace, the casemodding windows gamers who like to look at porn and flash animations all day. Think about it for a second.

    7. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Cloud+9 · · Score: 5, Insightful
      They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience.

      And you think you're part of that core audience? You have a SID well past the half-million mark, which means, unless your account is a dupe, you haven't been here very long at all. I happen to be one of those "nu-geeks", who also happens to have been a member since '98.

      Perhaps the core audience (re: key demographic) is somebody who reads the page, clicks the links, and buys the merchandise! Who better than those college freshmen/high school seniors with all that glorious disposable income.

      If you think there's any such thing as a single community here, you're sadly mistaken. There hasn't been a single community since I started reading /. There are, instead, many communities, which /. happily caters to by posting stories that might interest people in those communities.

      And who's to say the people who know more than "jack shit" don't happen to like casemodding and hardware news as much as your "nu-geeks"? Not everybody is as willing to pigeonhole themselves as you apparently are.

      (OT) Finally, I'd just like to mention that I'm getting slightly sick of all the elitest snobbery amongst the "Linux Gurus" around here. I have 5 machines, all well used, running Windows, Linux, Freebsd, and (gasp) OS 9. That doesn't make my penis any larger, that doesn't make me live any longer, and that doesn't make me want to prance around like some kind of lord.

      You talk about the people installing linux and using it for a week as if it's supposed to be a bad thing. At least they're trying something new. Maybe they'll try it again, maybe not. I do know this, though. If I'd seen people acting as piggish as the *nix elite around here, and hadn't had the support of the few people willing to help me surmount the ridiculously steep learning curve, I probably would have deleted it too.

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    8. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Face it, the days of the Linux Hippies are numbered. Theres a new sherrif in town and he's running Windows. He has access to unlimited applications, can quickly and easily develope / deploy custom applications.

      Bang..........your dead.

    9. Re:Slashdot is just dying by masterkool · · Score: 1

      I'd have to agree partialy on this concept. I am a senior in HIgh School and I find that many of the "geeks" who are aroung my age group tend to stock themselves with the best newest gear they see on TV...dude, its a fucking Dell, get over it. I have little money, so I was forced into building my computers from scratch, which gives me more respect for my tower. I also made sure I had a computer just for coding and programming (an old 133 that can only handle that). Concequently, case moding just doesnt seem that important to me.

      Just to partially disagree also, I know alot of geeks my age that are concerned with similar issues rather than what their case looks like in the dark. But there are alot of posers out there and /. does seem to cater to them too often. The page with the mod story has an entire HOW TO on making a CAT5 cable as new news. Making a CAT5 cable is so important that it should be common knowledge, but you know that hundreds of people who pass through the site are going to be amazed that they can make their own. *sigh* Where have the old times gone...

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    10. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yeah, this is the same basic thing where I go to school. There are a bunch of geek posers and then a few true geeks. It allways ends up though that the posers end up going to the true geeks for computer problems because they spent all their time learning how to put in a cool fan grille while the true geeks were learning how to fix a motherboard.

    11. Re:Slashdot is just dying by TheScienceKid · · Score: 1

      As in Microware OS-9, the Real Time Operating System? Coooooooooooooooolllllllllll.

    12. Re:Slashdot is just dying by phebz23 · · Score: 1

      This is a good point, but I think that instead of excluding them they should be put in their own section (Mods/OC/Enthusiast) and then that way people can customize their /. prefs to exclude those stories if they so choose. They aren't as enlightened as you make yourself out to be, sure, but they're still nerds, just like you and me.

    13. Re:Slashdot is just dying by _krimson_ · · Score: 1

      I have never once heard of someone "fixing" a motherboard by doing anything other than replacing it...something really makes me doubt that you have either.

    14. Re:Slashdot is just dying by blincoln · · Score: 2

      They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract

      I like well-done case mods because they look interesting and are an expression of the owner. I built my current PC with a Lucite case and dual blacklight neon tubes for that very reason. It's more fun to have a glowing clear box on my desk than my old beige case.

      Does that mean I'm not also interested in physics and politics? No. But wait, I also run an M$ OS at home, so I must be a "nu-geek" even though I've been using computers since I was six*.

      Not liking a particular type of article on Slashdot isn't something to have a heart attack over. It's easy enough to ignore the ones you're not interested in. I do it all the time.

      * Apple IIe Forever!

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    15. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Tooxs · · Score: 1

      I have, in the past I've replaced solder in fuses, keyboard jacks, and clock modules. Of course it's not worth the bother nowadays, but when moneys tight you do what you have to.

    16. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Ozymandias_KoK · · Score: 1

      FWIW, your core audience is usually much smaller than the "unwashed masses" that will show up as your niche becomes popular. This is one of the things that the internet is great about demonstrating, because it doesn't take forever to occur. You should get used to it, since it's nothing new, and not likely to change.

    17. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Ozymandias_KoK · · Score: 1

      Preferences or no preferences, you ain't got to read it (insert not reading article joke here) and you ain't got to post in it. I pass up articles all the time, but don't complain when there are many I have no interest in. /. has far too many users to singlemindedly focus on a narrow topic they would all be interested in. Hell, even among small numbers of people you are going to have a disparate array of interests.

    18. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to"
      Yeah, keep those MacHeadz out of here!

    19. Re:Slashdot is just dying by AbRASiON · · Score: 0

      Funny you should whine like that, when I was on a gaming forum / posting system (shack) we used to bag the hell out of you guys too.
      All hardcore anti MS "everything in the world should be free" if it's not linux it's not on kind of people who are so focused on things being free and whining about any company which even remotely implies they want profit for anything in the IT industry.

      Some people can see there's a compromise to both sides, but labelling all gamers and case modders as the "slip knot" type is foolish on your part.

    20. Re:Slashdot is just dying by jpt.d · · Score: 2

      Half million mark you say? Never thought much of that....

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    21. Re:Slashdot is just dying by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2

      Face it, the days of the Linux Hippies are numbered.

      Linux postdates the hippie by quite a bit.

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    22. Re:Slashdot is just dying by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2

      Making a CAT5 cable is so important that it should be common knowledge

      For what, people trapped on a desert island, forced to do IT work without any bulk cable at all?

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    23. Re:Slashdot is just dying by MacAndrew · · Score: 2

      Thanks! I read that and wondered if I was somehow ... incomplete ... and I don't even have a Dell.

      I have to go make some transistors now.

    24. Re:Slashdot is just dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey, Im the guy who did the Indiglo mod (Funny I didnt see any credit to my name here), but just wanted to say your profile of me is wrong. Im far from a college freshman, rich LAN party addict. In fact Ive never once gone to LAN parties.

      Im just an engineering guy who is creative and has recently gotten into case modding. And NO I would never pimp out my car the same way.

      anyway, good day.

      cheers,

      Razorguts
      Herff College of Engineering

  12. A Possibility by whiteranger99x · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Actually, as simplistic as this hack appears to be, I wonder if there might be some way a similar clock could interface more directly with the computer (maybe USB or serial interface or something).

    I would imagine it could have some bells in whistles, like synchronizing the clock to a time server, forecast the weather, or something else to that effect...

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    1. Re:A Possibility by more+fool+you · · Score: 1

      you mean like a radio clock?

    2. Re:A Possibility by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Acctually, this could have been done simpler and a lot nicer with a LCD. With an lcd you can have it display whatever you want for around $25. (Example)

  13. Wait a minute... I saw this on H*R! by Xaroth · · Score: 5, Funny

    "So, Bubs... how's it coming?"
    "Oh, hey Strong Bad. I think I'm almost finished. It took me a little while to figure out what I was gonna do. Then I duct taped an alarm clock to your VCR!"
    "Duct taped an alarm clock to the VCR. See, I never woulda thought of that. Ok, there's some hairs that are seemed to be stuck in the duct tape here. Was that on purpose?"
    "Oh. No. That's just left over from my first idea, which was to duct tape The Cheat to your VCR. He wasn't into that."
    "Oh, I coulda told you that, man. Well anyways, thanks for your help, Bubs... and thank you, Cory Dewey-Smith. Sooo... join us next week when we'll be duct taping clocks to all kinds of different stuff."

    (courtesy of Strong Bad's Email)

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  14. already been done! by Artifex · · Score: 2

    Homer: Hamburger earmuffs!

    Homer must not have seen Hats of Meat.

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  15. erm ugly by stmpynode · · Score: 1

    That case is just ugly. The colors are all wrong and that clock thing is just way out of place. Oh wait..

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  16. epoxy + clock by g4dget · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't get it. If you really, really need this, why not just epoxy a clock to the case?

    1. Re:epoxy + clock by doowy · · Score: 3, Insightful
      I don't get it. If you really, really need this, why not just epoxy a clock to the case?

      That's essentially all he did. It still needs to be plugged into an independant power source (he just snaked the alarm clocks wire out the back of the case). How this is news, I do not know.

      On second thought, he did manage to cut a hole in a piece of plastic - I suppose that does deserve some attention. pfft.
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    2. Re:epoxy + clock by mr_zorg · · Score: 1

      Or wear a freakin' watch...

    3. Re:epoxy + clock by sTy1z · · Score: 1

      Exactly. But hey, I'm excited, I didn't know I was a case modder. I bought $2 clocks meant for car dashboards and stuck them my machines years ago. ;)

  17. What time is it? by comet_11 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Well, no need for a clock/pc any longer, we all know what time it is! It's slashdotting time!

    Google cache can be found: here

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    1. Re:What time is it? by uberstool · · Score: 1

      It's time to learn that Google's cache does not cache images.

  18. Only for weak-minded by Masa · · Score: 2
    No true warrior cares about time. When you have to frag, you frag.

  19. [S]lashdot_ORG by Konster · · Score: 3, Informative
    I'm not into case modifications, but I can appreciate some of the more inventive work people have done in this area. I'm not certain that this belongs on Slashdot, per se, but it doesn't really do any harm to post something that might lead to discussion, and might lead me to finding out something neat, whether in the story or in the postings.

    Just so long as I don't start seeing [S]lashdot, I'll be happy.

    No offense meant to Kyle and [H]ard_OCP. =D

  20. dumb by doowy · · Score: 1

    uhg. "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."

    The guy took apart an alarm clock and shoved it into an even larger casing. This is news?

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    1. Re:dumb by Mage+Powers · · Score: 1

      no, but it sure as heck matters!

      I suspect theres been a long term performance problem with LCDs, probbly lost a whole 0.05 FPS so this mod indirectly increases cpu speed slightly?

    2. Re:dumb by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2

      Yeah, I was more than a little disappointed as well.

      I thought the display was going to be driven by the computer -- there are a number of people that have written software (often for Linux) to control attached LCD panels, which can be mounted in a drive bay to display time/load/temp, etc. The worst, though, was the fact that it had another power cable running through the back. Ugh.

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      May we never see th
  21. This story might be interesting... by Quaoar · · Score: 2, Funny

    If someone managed to squeeze a whole computer into an indiglo.

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    I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
  22. Obligatory by mhesseltine · · Score: 2

    Not if it's running Windows, or more appropriately, if it's this guy's server.

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    Overrated / Underrated : Moderation :: Anonymous Coward : Posting
  23. If you want this... by Zemran · · Score: 1

    then could it not be done using the PC's power supply?

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    I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
  24. who cares! by mad+mad+ninja · · Score: 1

    who cares that this got posted, its 3 or 4 am, opps its 5 now, does it really matter that someone posted a casemod story at this time? it is a bit pointless of one. but i dont think there were any important things happening right now.

  25. Slashdot needs a separate computers MOD topic by forged · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Did we mention that Slashdot needs to create a computers MOD section ? This would be attractive to many, i.e. even to you since you could disable this topic in your preferences if you didn't like it.

    Such topic would also make grouping mods together very easy, in order to come back to them later for example at the time you need the most (inspiration, inspiration...;)

  26. Ok... this isn't funny anymore!!!! by jonr · · Score: 1, Troll

    A guy who put a fscking alarm clock in his drivebay? What is going on here at slashdot.org? Maybe I'm just grumpy because I thought that my stories where better (IMHO, of course)
    # 2002-09-12 21:22:32 800-1000MHz handheld (articles,hp) (rejected)
    -- Is not news that handhelds are reaching 1GHz?
    # 2002-09-13 06:55:11 Outdoor Quake (articles,tech) (rejected)
    -- Now this was really interesting news (IMHO). Some University dudes rigged Quake so they could run around outside with wearable computers and frag each other. (They did this with Quake+GPS+HUDs+custom map of campus)
    Slashdot.org is going to the dogs...
    News for kiddies, stuff that blows chunks!
    J.

    1. Re:Ok... this isn't funny anymore!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      my dog is called chunks.

      he is excited by your comments...

    2. Re:Ok... this isn't funny anymore!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      that's because your quake article is a repeate from last year that is a repeat from earlier that year.

      funny eh? they rejected your repeat yet michael posts repeats that are ON THE FRONT PAGE!

      as for the handheld reaching 1ghz, who cares, it runs that crap called WINDOWS.

    3. Re:Ok... this isn't funny anymore!!!! by tailgunner_on_a_milk · · Score: 1

      i remember the outdoor quake stuff being on /. a good few months back... but hey, its all immaterial anyhow i suppose, carry on =)

  27. Gotta love pimping your own site... by buzzbomb · · Score: 2

    The article is on gideontech.com. That's precisely what the link on the submitters nick is as well. I love it when people pimp their own shit and the editors post it. :/

    I, for one, don't care about this stuff. I prefer to create my content using the computer as a tool...not as an integral part of my "art." If you get your rocks off cutting holes in computers and putting in neon lights, you need to get out of the house more. It was bad enough that people were doing this shit to cars, but now computers too? Pathetic.

    Yes, I know I'm an asshole.

    1. Re:Gotta love pimping your own site... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Don't forget Rice Boy Page dot com...

  28. This isn't even a good mod by DaCool42 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The circuit board for the clock is not mounted in any way. The power is coming in on a seperate AC line. Even if this was a good idea, it was done very poorly. And wouldn't it be much better to put in an LCD and use lcdproc instead?

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    All of whose base are belong to the what-now?
    1. Re:This isn't even a good mod by Nexx · · Score: 1
      Alternatively, rip out the guts of the clock, figure out the requisite DC voltage, and have the computer's power supply give it the power. Use a battery to keep it powered during the times when you move the computer.

      You're right, there're tonnes of ways of making this mod better.

    2. Re:This isn't even a good mod by hageshii · · Score: 1

      Well, for starters, why did he even use an AC-powered clock? Get one that at least starts out as battery-based. Then, it's not that hard to changes the computer's +5V to whatever the clock needs. In fact, you'd prolly be able to use the +5V even if the clock used something "close" to that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not endorsing this mod. But, if I'm going to waste my time to see the pretty pictures, I'd at least like to see that it was done right. Go get an Electrical Engineering degree and try again.

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      .sig: No such file or directory
  29. Exactly! by PontifexPrimus · · Score: 1

    That's why people buy cars for their internal values, not some glitzy design! And why interior designers just love this beautiful shade of beige that you see so often outside of computer rooms!
    Kidding aside, I happen to think that design is, while not the most important consideration, at least worth a thought for a tool I'm going to work with every day for a couple of hours... And the fact that I can show off my individualism and 1337 electronics skillz with adding the odd LCD or LED-fader doesn't hurt :)
    To return to the topic, IMHO a computer I like to work with is a better computer than one that hurts my eyes when I look at it.

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    -- Language is a virus from outer space.
  30. News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. by EmagGeek · · Score: 2
    I made my computer go fast. It has a big wing on it, and lots of stickers. Stickers make a computer go fast. I put 2 extra fans in it because fans also make computers go fast. I get lots more FPS now. The window helps me play games faster. The RF from the computer makes my fingers faster. That's good. Painting my computer race yellow makes my FPS go up. I can frag more l0z3r5 that way. The blinking rope lights let me know when I frag some 1337-w4nn483 l0z3r.

    And the wonder why their stock is in the toilet. They spend all of their credibility appeasing the script-kiddie-gamer crowd...

    BART: But I have 52 million shares! What's 52 million times zero?

    They had better get their act together before the repo man comes for their soul patches.

  31. Terminology by Logopop · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not called 'Indiglo (tm)'. The technical term is 'high voltage fluorescence'. 'Indiglo (tm)' is something Timex (I think) called it when they started using it for wrist watches and the like. Bugs me as much as hearing the term 'S-VHS' when people refer to the video format 'S-VIDEO' (separated chrominance/luminance).
    Important? Hardly. Important to me? Oh, yes!

    1. Re:Terminology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      HUH! What crack are you smoking? I NEVER EVER here people refer to S-Video cable and technology as S-VHS or vice versa.

      I never once herd it and I am a stickler for correct desciptions, often arguing down shopkeepers at electorics stores.

      My biggest per peeve is LCD (Liquid Crystal) being applied to color FFT (Flat Film Transister) Twisted Nematic screens. I bet even YOU do that out of ignorane. I never did.

      But I NEVER EVER heard of people calling S-Video S-VHS.

      I own both and love both by the way and use S-Video on EVERYTHING including older consoles such as PSX (1) and Dreamcast, all camaras, all my screens, my television room amp switcher, everything.

      But I think you are mistaken. I refuse to believe people mix up those terms.

    2. Re:Terminology by Logopop · · Score: 1

      That may depend on what continent you are on. ere in Europe, the mixup is apparent even in professional sales literature for everthing from VCR's to Televisions.
      Don't get any hits on FFT - are you thinking of TFT-LCD's?

    3. Re:Terminology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yah, same here, haven't heard that one before.. S-VHS is not popular in the Southeast US at least. Might have to try it, though, see if I can confuse the Circuit City dumbployees with it.

    4. Re:Terminology by gsa700 · · Score: 1

      As far as I know, S-VIDEO is not a video format it's a connection standard. S-VHS is a video format.

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      "You do not support the root but the root supports you." - Romans 11:18
    5. Re:Terminology by Logopop · · Score: 1

      S-video is a video format. It differs from composite in that the chrominance and luminance signals are separate. The HI-8 and S-VHS Tape formats both utilize S-Video to enhance the color bandwidth.
      Connectors for S-Video come in various flavours. The common circular 4-pin plug is universal. More european is the SCART, which can carry S-Video, RGB, Composite, sound, + control signals. No TV's are sold in northern Europe without this connector. More info here:
      http://www.daveladd.demon.co.uk/pscart/scartpino ut .html
      or here
      http://www.btinternet.com/~krazy.keith/elect ronics /scart.html

  32. Re:TRITIUM GAS!!! Where are the first tritium mods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Tritium costs per Curie is only $3.40 cents or less mid-level wholesale cost.

    THAT IS VERY CHEAP and a few dollars could light up a couple rooms!

  33. case mods are not news for nerds. by lophophore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's not stuff that matters.

    Another slow news day at Slashdot?

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    there are 3 kinds of people:
    * those who can count
    * those who can't
    1. Re:case mods are not news for nerds. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But this is not even a case mod. It's a guy who put a clock in a drive bay.

      WHAT THE HELL?

  34. Hey - That Outdoor Quake story rocks ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thanks for the tip, 5secs of goooogling amused me hugely.

    This entire story was a troll anyway - the editors just seem to enjoy the proccess fo argument more than real news. You might as well post EMACs vs Vi for gods sake.

  35. Obligatory Simpsons Quote + some ranting. by phillymjs · · Score: 2

    "People are afraid of new things. You should have just taken an existing product and put a clock on it or something."
    -- Homer, on the baby translator, "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"

    I'm of the opinion that case mods in general are just plain dumb, in the same way that "Type R" stickers and outrageously large fins are on cars-- but this takes the cake as the stupidest case mod I have ever seen. Dude, buy a fucking wristwatch and save some time and effort.

    I don't know what's worse, that someone saw this as a worthwhile project, or that an blurb about it was submitted and accepted on Slashdot.

    ~Philly

    1. Re:Obligatory Simpsons Quote + some ranting. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shut! Up!

      " I want what the dog's having "

  36. Gideon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    is a dumb name/word.

  37. In other news.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    more adept modders have added tiny blue bulbs to the headlights of their Honda Civics. Civics aren't normally available with HID Xenon headlights, and this "mod" doesn't look anything like HID Xenon headlights...but dammit, it's a mod, so therefore it MUST add at least 15 hp or so, right???

  38. It requires the screen to be on. by Trillan · · Score: 1

    You ought to be able to figure out the power requirements for a set of LEDs vs. a monitor yourself, though...

  39. Why such a large clock? by dylantech · · Score: 1

    Why did this guy buy the biggest clock with the most parts to rip off before installing? He could have gotten one like this or an even smaller dash clock and not had to tear off any radio parts to be able to mount it in his dumb sky blue computer.

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    Now back to your regularly scheduled rant already in progress...
    1. Re:Why such a large clock? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      hey, I didnt use a clock like that because it runs one one aa battery, and the indiglo feature only comes on when you press the "indiglo" bar on the top - then stays on for a mere 4 seconds. I wanted the indiglo with the light sensor...

      anyway, sorry to single you out, as everyone is bashing. :)

      cheers,

      Razorguts
      Herff College of Engineering

  40. What a hack!!!!! by Anonym1ty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What a hack... it looks like he hacked it with an axe.


    C'mon... if you are going to drill a hole clean through the power supply, can't you just solder the power plug to the back of the 120v jack? -it would be safer.


    What about that printed circuit board shoved into a conductive metal box... that board has 120v AC in it too! FIRE FIRE FIRE

    This hack job is unsafe and should not be recommended to anyone.

    PLUS IT'S UGLY!
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    See the Pictures of the Flood of '08
  41. pendulum by peterxyz · · Score: 1

    okay, so maybe it was just me, but the side-on view of the case cut-out just *screamed* pendulum to me - you know like the glass panel in the front of a grandfather clock.

    Of course carrying it to LAN parties is another matter

  42. Re:a bit off-topic, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    made that one too easy for the mods...You can try
    www.cablesnmore.com

    They have a good selection but I am not sure where to buy custom lengths unless you are willing to buy in bulk.

  43. Watches by Mutang · · Score: 1

    You wanna keep time while playing games...get a watch. mod wasn't really newsworthy

  44. Yawn by kobotronic · · Score: 2

    A prefab clock put in a bezel. Fabulous.

    By the way, Indiglo is not meant to be 'always on' - it becomes a dim, dull greyish color after a couple months. :)

    I'd have been somewhat impressed if someone had made a breadboard LED clock with big bold BOMB numerals and put that behind the ubiquitous "windows" that me-too modders carve in their PCs.

    But these days glowing red LED clock numerals probably leads to incidents with frightened maintenance workers calling the FBI. At least in the U.S. :)

  45. Casemods for the artistically declined. by nfotxn · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but am I the only one who thinks most case mods look really fuckin' stoopid?

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    _nfotxn

  46. You know what would be even cooler? by Max+Threshold · · Score: 1

    This gives me a sick idea. How about a huge external LCD display that counts your frags? Maybe you could set it up to play a recording of maniacal laughter every time it increments. Then you could position it over by your opponent's monitor...

    1. Re:You know what would be even cooler? by tailgunner_on_a_milk · · Score: 1

      Ya. Dat sounz k3wl.

  47. Shitty hack by delysid-x · · Score: 1

    Ok, so it's a clock... It doesn't look that great, that paint he used is going to come off easily, the screws should have been painted over so they don't stick out like sore thumbs and the holes to set the clock look a little shoddy.
    There's an excellent article on vinyl dyes on that site though, you should all check it out if you're into modding... Supposedly it works much better than paint on plastic. I'll be getting some blue dye and doing my monitors, keyboard and mouse soon. Check it out: http://www.gideontech.com/guides/vinyldye/

  48. nuGeek by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2

    With all these casemod stories, Slashdot is just trying to get a foothold in the nu-geek community -- the kind who was raised by Windows, is addicted helplessly to online gaming, always wears Slipknot t-shirts, always believes all the hardware and game hype that every crap hardware/gaming site out there says, and doesn't even know jack shit about coding, *nix, or computer science as they only care about spurious issues like ATI vs. Nvidia -- but they try to pass themselves off as a Linux hackers and anti-Microsoft rebels, and somehow gravitate towards slashdot after they run Linux for a week and give up on it.

    I like the term. I've frequently wanted a word for these folks, but didn't have one. nuGeek. Nice.

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    May we never see th
  49. This may well be the lamest /. story ever by dublin · · Score: 2

    TSSIA (That's "The subject says it all" for those of you that actually think casemods are cool...)

    It's hard to imagine anything that's less worthy of appreciation as a hack than this tripe. It's a kludge, and a bad one at that: an off-the shelf clock radio, not even integrated into the power system, but with the original clock radio cord dangling out the back of the case, and a few holes hacked into a blank bezel. If this qualifies as a "mod", then I suppose I need to post all the computers and automotive trim I've sprayed with Krylon semi-flat black over the years...

    If the clock was one of those WWV self-setting jobs and there was software to turn the box into a stratum 2 or 3 timeserver there might be some news here, but this is just a joke, and gets my vote for 1) the lamest Slashdot story in the entire history of the site, and 2) the strongest indication yet that Slashdot is completely irrelevant to those that actually *do* know how to do hardware hacks. (Yes I'm one of those "radicals" like James Dyson that thinks that innovative and superior function should determine form (but is not at all averse to attractive and innovative forms), not the other way around...)

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    "The future's good and the present is nothing to sneeze at." - Roblimo's last ./ post
  50. You ARE an elitist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (OT) Finally, I'd just like to mention that I'm getting slightly sick of all the elitest snobbery amongst the "Linux Gurus" around here. I have 5 machines, all well used, running Windows, Linux, Freebsd, and (gasp) OS 9. That doesn't make my penis any larger, that doesn't make me live any longer, and that doesn't make me want to prance around like some kind of lord.

    What's with the attitude? You say you're sick of the elitism around here, and then go off on how "normal" you supposedly are. Well, hello, saying that you have 5 computers comes off as elitist as well. In addition, did it ever occur to you that some people really do have their shit together? Those who do - and some of them do post to Slashdot, although perhaps not many - aren't being "elitist" except insofar as you define that term to mean just that they're a better group. Your argument ad populorum might appear original in a freshman English class, but I'm sure that Slashdot can see you for what you are - a worthless, steaming hypocrite.

  51. Old iron by MacAndrew · · Score: 2

    Ha! Apple ][+

    TRS-80 before that, but I don't like to talk about it.

  52. Who's calling the kettle black? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't you think a more pressing problem in the trolling frauds who have to get new user id's to escape their pasts, until they're over 600,000? That sort of critter ruins any picnic.

    And this IS on-topic. If the argument is that /. is dying because the wrong "sort" of people hang out here, take a careful look at the person making the argument, there may be an agenda there.

    I'd post this under my name, but don't want this thing following me home.

  53. Im the Indiglo Mod guy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    hey all,

    well, I appreciate all the feedback. Let me say a few things, please. Im not associated with gideontech at all, in fact I had no idea that story leaked over to you guys' /. website. I didnt submit it here, I tell you that. and had I know it would become such "public domain", I would have reconsidered.

    and in that project article, I stated quite clearly I didnt know squat about EE or anything, hey Im just a creative guy who has recently found some fun in case modding. Im far from a newby geek though, and I was probably playing games in the 70s before most of you guys were born. I work for a living, and I earn my playtime and play toys.

    Im not a member at your community here, but, as someone succinctly stated, there is some elitist demeanor here, and it isnt pleasant.

    but feel free to insult my mod, I'll still have fun with it! Hey we all pass along at some point, cant let the small stuff bring you down.

    and WTF is slipknot? A mierda band I take it?

    Be good,

    Razorguts
    Herff College of Engineering.

  54. Um, so this is so special why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I didn't really see anything special here. Here's the steps involved:
    1) take clock apart
    2) dremel faceplate to fit clock LCD
    3) put buttons in faceplate
    4) put clock in case

    four steps... four EASY steps. Why is this on /.? I like reading about things I couldn't imagine doing myself (72 mile 802.1 connection), that I read about and say "wow", but putting a clock in a PC is not impressive in the least.

  55. Last Post! by alpg · · Score: 1

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