Indiglo Clock Case Mod
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."
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.
/. will kill yet another cablemodem or overtraffic som poor bastards co-loc account.
Only thing that happens is that
- To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion -
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.
Karma: Dyn-o-mite!(mostly affected by Jimmy Walker reading your comments)