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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."

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  1. 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?

  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.

    --
    - Preferences: Solaris 10 (servers), Ubuntu (desktops), Solaris 11 (personal servers) -
  3. 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...;)