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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
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is an old CD-ROM converted into a cupholder, and a peltier-based beverage cooler. Swank!
Does the PC "Take a licking and keeps on ticking?" ;)
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The new indiglo clock server mod, counts the number of seconds between being slashdotted and the server dieing! Reverse your kit today! ^_^
...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?
...does it make the computer a better *computer*?
If it doesn't, i'm afraid i'm not that interested.
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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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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.
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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"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."
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That green slime had it coming.
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Get off my launchpad!
I don't get it. If you really, really need this, why not just epoxy a clock to the case?
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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
If someone managed to squeeze a whole computer into an indiglo.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Not if it's running Windows, or more appropriately, if it's this guy's server.
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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...;)
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.
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?
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.
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!
"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
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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A prefab clock put in a bezel. Fabulous.
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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.
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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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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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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TRS-80 before that, but I don't like to talk about it.