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The Next Level of X-Box Modding

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-wait-a-minute dept.

nikitin2k writes "A swedish guy did a really sweet xbox mod. He moved the whole thing into an aluminium chassis, changed the dvd and hdd, installed a mod-chip, wireless lan, leds, switches and Linux. Meet the xXx-box. The site is in swedish, but the pics speak for themselves. Lots of pictures here." I gotta ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer? The green lighting is a nice touch tho.

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  1. Boom by worst_name_ever · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently he's serving the images from his Xbox too...

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  2. How is this Swedish? by Chewie · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, how dumb do you think we are? I checked the site, and there's not a "bork bork bork" anywhere!

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  3. The point to give up by questamor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I gott ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer?

    probably at the point where imagination gives up, I think most mods are useless from a practical point of view but feh, you have fun doing it

  4. Why? by DarklordJonnyDigital · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You ask why? I think the question is, why not?

    Running a webserver on an X-Box or a GBA, we geeks do it because we can. It was the same with the Linux Dreamcast and the laptop Amiga 600 before it. I mean, at least now the X-Box is good for something - heaven knows it's already the SIZE of a server case... ;)

  5. CmdrTaco != Geek by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    I gott ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer? The green lighting is a nice touch tho.

    Kathleen has finally done it. She's turned Rob into a normal guy. Let this serve as a warning to all you geeks out that, this is what marriage will do. It'll strip you of your desire for case mods, installing Linux on anything with an electronic pulse or ability to see if articles have already been posted! *shudder*

    Rob. Put the mouse down, move away from the computer, leave the room, turn the lights off, get your sixpack and ride your lawnmower around the yard (or w/blade, plow driveway.)

    I knew this day was coming. I've also noticed Gabe at Penny Arcade has begun to lose his hand to eye coordination, so vital in video games. Next thing you know, he'll be playing strategy games.

    Come to think of it, loss of hand to eye coordination is probably as good an excuse as any to convert that old Xbox into a server.

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  6. Almost, but not quite. by war3rd · · Score: 5, Funny

    He forgot to add the 8-track!

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  7. Re:Slashdotted! by taviso · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mirror here.

    wget --page-requisites --convert-links 'http://www.sweclockers.com/html/artikel/art_03022 5_xbox_mod.php?page=15

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  8. Sorry but ... by ascii · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... whenever I see one of these modding projects I get this odd taste in my mouth and it all reminds me too much of my gawky teenage years and the mech-geeks that would mod Puch Maxi mopeds to go 100km/h either by using illegal german tuning kits or by drilling or filing various parts of it.

    To those who don't know the Puch Maxi let's describe it as a ... pratical vehicle. With its slim bycyclish appearance it looked kinda stupid with a death-defying teenager on top of it at a hundred kilometers per hour.

    Whenever modding is brought up I come to think of these things.

    Sorry, flame me to death now.

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  9. Erm... by arvindn · · Score: 5, Funny
    Meet the xxx-box. The site is in swedish, but the pics speak for themselves.

    Er, CmdrTaco, are you quite sure this is about hardware?

    Being at work, it put me into a dilemma: to click or not to click?

  10. $300 Walmart PC by sparkhead · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I'm sick and tired of the "buy a $300 Walmart PC", for most people a $300 Walmart PC doesn't DO what the want to do.

    For most people, a $300 Walmart PC does do everything they want it to do.

    Slashdot readers are not "most people".

  11. Open letter to Kathleen Malda by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Mrs. Malda,

    Please do the community a favor. Tomorrow, stand behind your husband with a large foam bat, and every time he misspells a word, or uses a non-word like "tho", club him.

    I gottTHWACK ask thoTHWACK, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer? The green lighting is a nice touch thoTHWACK.

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