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secolactico writes "This has got to be the coolest case mod I've come across. An ant farm in your PC case. Too bad there are no pics of the case actually on a working PC. It'd be interesting to observe the effect that the temperature and vibration of an operating PC would have on the ants."
why does simpsons come to mind?
Im picturing homer in space when the ants get loose in the space ship.
Selling software wont make you money, selling a service will.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? Talk about a nightmare...
Any other Terry Pratchett fans around here reminded of Hex, the ant-powered computer (of Unseen University)?
:-)
Now, THAT would be cool. To overclock, just add caffeine to the water supply
This
*groan*
Let's fill up the case with internal strobe lights and other various case mod lights and see if ants can have seizures!
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No, I don't want to imagine a beowulf cluster of these babies, especially if the ants managed to get out and infest my room.
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It would be interesting to see if the heat generated by the CPU/etc killed the ants.
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Gives new meaning to having bugs in the system...
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If it breaks open, just smack open a mac lined with ant eaters.
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Overclocked Watercooled Ants?
Do they work faster with higher bus speeds?
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I happened to catch the episode where they showed this thing... Yes it works, no the heat/vibrations didn't kill the ants. It was a pretty cool mod.
How is this news? Microsoft has been helping create systems with bugs in them for well over a decade now! Old news.
s/ants/fish/
then you have a cool case
Selling software wont make you money, selling a service will.
if i had this case, it would be impossible for me to curb the urge to play SIMAnt, it'd be like having the guide book available IN REAL TIME... waiooooooooooo.
Stained glass case mod (by a hemophiliac too, that's just crazy)
Fish tank case mod (with genuine Neon Tetras)
Someone's actually managed to make a Windows PC where the buggiest thing about it isn't the operating system.
This
Don't computers emit a bit of radiation? Perhaps this might affect the ants in some way.
"Look at that ant! It's glowing!"
"No, that's an LED."
"Oh. I see. Hey, how did you get that LED to move?"
"Are you mad? That's an ant. What is it with you?"
hey!
... 2003
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When I think of real bugs in computers... I'm drawn to the ants that were nesting in the computer in the movie Pi.
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...or all the stuff intalled on their computer will be buggy instead of just half of it!
antie r u ok, antie r u ok, r u ok antie. yes i'm drunk shut up
this case could not be moved since it would destroy the tunnels or worse let the bugs loose inside the computer.
I'm waiting for the "sea monkey" case
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This may not be the best idea, i was watching something on the discovery channel the other day about fire ants. It was talking about all the damage they've caused across the south because they're atracted to electrical fields. They short out computers, traffic lights, appliances, and make hell for the linemen because they ussually nest under high voltage lines. They had a bunch on a live pc board, and they just swarmed over certain components, the ones i'm assuming that had strong em fields. This may be just fire ants though, i have no idea.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Reminds me of the ant motif used in the movie PI.
..just make test tube baby labs for case mods while we're at it..
that the O$ is M$ ???
This puts me in mind of the computer in Pterry Pratchett's books, Hex. It's effectively a colony of ants which move things about, thus performing operations, calculations, etc. often of a thaumatical nature. There's a sign mentioned in one of the books, "Ant Hill Inside"
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If it were Unix, the ants would all ignore anything unexpected, even if that meant walking into it repeatedly.
especially if you have ever been anywhere near fire ants. (for the record, I used to be in Louisiana - and I concur every bit with the article.
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Hammerhead sharks can detect subtle electric fields -- the "hammers" are actually sensor arrays, which the sharks use to find the bioelectric signature of prey animals buried in the mud. The sharks also follow geo-electric paths to feeding grounds.
-kgj
I wonder what happens when the ants get their freaks on? Could be kinda zaney I'll wager.
... it's a cool idea, but I think I'll wait for the final. It looks a bit buggy.
::ducks::
Aren't ants sensitive to electromagnetism/radio-frequency waves? Won't having them so near an EM source as a PC's innards do strange things to their behaviour (I'm presuming it won't be "good"/healthy/conducive for the ants...).
I think she'd kind of grasp the irony.
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people said that Linux wasn't ready for your ants and uncles...
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
He claims to have no idea where he got the idea to put an ant farm in a PC.
;-)
Among other obvious sources, here is one of my posts from a past Ask Slashdot: Pets
Of course the guys at TechTV must read every little comment on Slashdot.
Or maybe it's just another one of those "critical mass of knowledge" effects, where technology (or boredom) reaches such a level that an idea springs to life simultaneously for multiple individuals.
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what would the em radiation do to the ants... hard drives can throw out more radiation then a monitor if you are sitting right infront of it.
any physicists or bioligists have any insights?
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you'd need tropical fish
:-)
The Piranha PC would indeed be a neat mod.
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If I had a case like this, whould it mean I'd have to listen to "Smooth Criminal" (cover) and "The Movies" all the time?! hope not.
It'd be interesting to observe the effect that the temperature and vibration of an operating PC would have on the ants.
What's the point. Everyone knows all we really want to do it whip out the old magnifying glass. Hehe.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
does it run linux?
this is the case that proves the existance of beowolf clusters long before the invention of the computer...
I'm also certain I remember reading some article about studies on ant colonies that found some colonies actually crossed several state boundaries... tried to Google for it but no luck.
I used to have a pentium 133 that had a huntsman spider living inside. It didn't bother me so I didn't bother it, they're not dangerous.
This computer was so bad that when I booted it I had to manually kickstart the fan to start spinning by tapping it a bit, kind of like how they used to spin those propellors on airplanes to start them up.
Anyway, I thought "MIR" was tha appropriate name to give to this poor sod. It was decommisioned around a year ago.
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(Actually, I don't think PETA cares about insects, or about any animals which aren't cute enough to pull the empathy-strings that bring in more funds.)
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Do you have any information about this? I am unable to find many hits on Google. I have never heard of Hex and Terry Pratchett.
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I got a dust bunnie farm in my case! There so many they're tryin to squeeze thru the cracks around the cdrom tray. I find the P4 fans grow 'em bigger and faster.
Configuring a child to do the right thing perhaps?
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The opening is how the ants get their food
Um, how does that work? Is it that the ants leave the colony through that big wide opening and look for food around the floor of your workspace?
Huh?
I've found all sorts of strange critters living in my systems. Back about ten years ago, I opened a 386 to find a Black Widow merrily tending her egg sacks in a web built around the power supply. I had a system offline for a couple of months; When I started it up last week, I heard something inside. Upon examination, I found an anole (small lizard) inside the case. Those dang things get in everywhere... they even move in with my Uromastyx sometimes. Must think he's their big brother or something. But I can't see building a specific house for ants in my computer. After all, I live in Florida, and wage war against fire ants almost daily...
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I had a Microsoft Optical wheel mouse that Ant got in to. For some reason even when the PC was off the red light at the back would glow and this must have provided the sort of warmth the ants were after. One day I turned the mouse over and wondered what this grey muck was on the inside of mouse (it's a translucent base). I opened the mouse up and here was this ring of Ant eggs spread perfectly around the LED, it must have been the point at which the temperature was just right!
Too bad there are no pics of the case actually on a working PC.
Odd, I usually consider it putting the pc into the case, not putting the case unto the pc. I guess it's about the same difference though.
Whatever happened to "Quickies"?
been done... but more naturally... rember the ibook ant farm?
Remember this?
is there some rule that a only one news site can cover a given topic?
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Ask any air conditioner repairman. The ants get stuck inside the relays and cause the relay to fail. Sometimes they eat the insulation of the wiring, cause it to short and trip the breaker. So don't be suprised if your power supply starts smoking one day.
The server is /.'ed, here is an ASCII-image of the ants:
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The small black ants that are usually seen at our homes cannot withstand a lot of hear. It is a well known fact that even little bit of sun rays on them literally boil them as they lack any spinal structure.
"Protect the Queen!" "Which one's the Queen?" "I'm the queen!" "no you're not!" On a serious note... if the critters get loose in your case, how well do mobos react to ants?
Sure, it's neat to look at, but at the end of the day all you can really say is "Look where I stuck *MY* motherboard!"
SQUEAK, the Death of Rats explained.
Clearly, all records must have disappeared in the los alamos fires, and the surviving scientists have all gone mad, or expired. Everyone has forgotten! The nation MUST BE WARNED!
Constant vibrations should make the ants tunnels will collapse and all you'll see is them pounding on the glass trying to get out. Course maybe your into that - sicko.
I returned home that evening and noticed the screen was doing an unusual flickering. When I snapped on the lights, I found the system crawling with bugs like ... well, you know. I took it outside, pulling out all the components and dusting them off with my trusty Spray-Air, but it was too late.
The next day I opened the power supply and found about 25 traces of crispy ants neatly bridging the traces on the board inside, as well as 100 or so crispy but unattached.
The most annoying part was finding another half-sized Compaq power supply to fit the half-sized space in the full-sized tower case. (RANT)What the heck is wrong with Compaq's designers, anyway? Every case & component in their PC line seems to be curved or an odd size ...(/RANT)
I was worried they'd come back, since the house had only jalousie (yeah, and lousy they were, too) windows, which couldn't be shut tight enough to keep out flies much less smaller-than-average-ants, but they never came back.
*These "sugar ants" were brown in color, a bit smaller than the average black mound-building ant and a LOT smaller that the "Texas Red-Devil" fire ants I hope never to see again ... They had no interest in anything in the house, including the kitchen trash and even sugar spilled on the counter, but the sweet sweet smell of the transformer sure pulled them in!
Hmmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
If you really want an out-there case, then you just have to check out this.
They're all fine and dandy, but what would really be impressive are liquid nitrogen cooled ants @ 3 GHz.
It's all fun and games until EMF radiation creates a mutaion and makes the ants as large as bison.
"It'd be interesting to observe the effect that the temperature and vibration of an operating PC would have on the ants."
'nuff said.
today is spelling optional day.
My policy is that anything creeping, crawling, slinking, etc that is smaller than my cats is subject to immediate termination, if said cats don't terminate it first. Then again, I live in the desert so there aren't a whole lot of bugs, comparatively, so I am used to generall bug free living.
In fact the only bug infestation I ever had was a bunch of Kool Aid ants. I call them that since I'm not sure what kind of ants they REALLY were and they seemed to thrive on the Kool Aid that my roomate was fond of drinking. They were really tiny things, probably not more than a milimetre from head to abdomen. They would proceed to scale his massive 44 oz platsic cup, fall in the Kool Aid, and die. We never saw them anywhere but floating dead in the Kool Aid, they didn't march back and forth in a trail or anything so we figured they probably never got out alive. Getting rid of them was a real pain. We'd cheal the while desk with soap and water + Lysol and they'd still find their way back. Some Raid at stategic places finally did the trick, but they were nothing if not persistant.
Back in my college days, living in a house with a few other guys we had a bad ant problem. We first thought that maybe we should clean up the week old chinese food and yesterday's pizza, but that did not work. It got so bad that we were obsessed with our clean living habits in the kitchen. Finally, after living with a new cleaniness lifestyle we were able to track the source of the ants. They were making homebase in the base station of the cordless phone unit. Apparently, they were attracted to the glues on the PCB in the phone base unit. It certainly wasn't the main 'ant house' which had to be outside somewhere, but it was definitely the main place where they made their mystic ant communications to invade the rest of the place. This is no joke, once we elimated that phone base station our ant problems were no more.
"Your ants are dead" --Homer
/me takes a practice swing with an invisible golf club
"I know...I can't get them out of there" --Disco Stu
Apple computers have an Apple on them
Intel machines have an "Intel Inside" placard.
What do you call a machine with ants in the case?
A Windows(tm) Machine. A Windows(tm).....Machine.
Should have stopped at the Simpsons paraphrase. Beware of falling karma.
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will resemble the fractal patterns of your screen saver.
'why are there bugs all over your computer?'
'those aren't bugs, they're features'
It's all I can do, currently, to keep my cat from using the tower as a crow's nest. (This is usually the prelude to an attempted ambush of cat #2, although he's is such a fat-ass that he typically just ends up dumping the case before the "prey" approacheth.)
... hmmmm ...
If I ever feel the need to have it more systematically demolished, I'll definitely have to try out this ant mod, or, alternatively, the fish-tank one. Or, who knows, maybe I'll just invent a totally new one. Squirrels at the window seem to irritate them like nothing else
- nocturne
Yuck!
Davak
humans will do themselves in, and we dolphins will rule the earth!
well, 70% of it...
erm, okay, 25% of that 70% that hasn't been (badly) poluted yet...
actually, erm, 10% of that 25% of the 70% that hasn't had its ecosystem seriously impacted due to over-fishing...
ahh fsck it. i'm moving to ganymede.
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Ant ain't just a cool Java tool!
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Imagine a beowulf clusteAAArrrrrgggghhhhh Get Them Off Of Me!!!
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...just go watch PI: The Movie, and you'll see. :)
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It strikes me as being somewhat unethical to put ants into such extreme conditions (high temperature and lots of vibration) without any purpose other than 'looking cool'. At least when we send them up to outer space we have a scientific goal in mind. When you have them on the side of your case you are just causing them harm for no real gain.
Begging the question is when the conclusion of an argument is also a premise of that argument.
Oh better yet, go stick some fire ants down your pants from these ant farms!
For a moment, I was thinking what a big casing you must have to house them ...
--- root@127.0.0.1
Debugging that thing would be hell!
And it would all be fun and games for the ants until the fan blew and fried them all!!!
*ducking flying fruit*
In other news, Steven King was found dead in his Maine home with Hot gritz down his pants next to a NAKED and PETRIFIED STATUE OF Natile Portman, while at his computer running the DIEING FReeBSD OS with a pic of goatse.cx opened!
... what I want to see is a beehive casemod.
you would kill all off the ants every time you take off the case side! its not ment to be an etchascetch!
Think about it. Bees don't like their hive to get too hot, cos then they all die. So, if it does they station a whole bunch of workers on the outside and get them to flap their little chitinous wings to cool it all down. It's a self cooling case!
Admittedly the bees buzzing all the time might be louder than an overclocked AMD with an ill chosen fan, but you have to admit; it would be a unique case mod. And you get honey!
So, is a self-cooling-honey producing-beehive case a great idea or what?
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Anyway we could harness the kinetic energy from the ants running around inside and cool the graphics card down?
Is there a video clip of this HowTo online? I don't have cable TV and satellite dish.
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I'm guessing those ants don't like LAN parties.
-R
Does that mean it would be possible to manipulate them using electric fields? You could put a backplate on the ant farm with a matrix of electrodes. The ants would be attracted to the ones which were switched on. You could control it from a parallel port to have an ascii display composed of swarming ants. Not only would this be a cool hack, it would completely creep out anyone who saw it in action. IANAB - does anyone know if this would work?
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That one ant becomes aware that he and the rest of his ants are not in a real anthill, but instead living inside a computer, and tries to set them free from their computer prison. Fortunately the other ants will probably think he's mad and try to resist. Better make some robot ants to go in and keep them all in line.
my list. :)
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Well... I'd guess if it's too hot, it might kill them. I suppose if it vibrates, it might collapse all their tunnels and probably kill them.
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It's incompatible with RAID arrays.
Yes, I'm ashamed of myself for that one :)
When I was at The Gathering(olympic hall in Hamar, Norway) in 2001 I saw a live scorpion inside a transparent case. That was awesome.
....but this is taking things to a whole new level.....
I think the electromagnetic field rather than the heat, noise, or vibration would be the worst for the ants. (yes, i know heat is a form of EM radiation, just bear with me :P) Ants are known to infest stuff like transformer boxes and stuff because they're lured by the EM field. I imagine the EM field generated by case fan motors/circuit boards/procs/drives/PS would have a similar effect, I.E. drive the ants insane. I remember Another Story where someone's iBook (like mine) got infested with ants. They must have been attracted by the EM.
You like your new Mac more than you like me, don't you, Dave? Dave? I asked...She said Yes.
A similar case mod could be achieved using mixed layers of soil and worms. Patterns are traced by the worms as the travel through the alternating colour soils. I'd be more inclined to have worms in my house than ants as well.
I would like a screen mod with an ant farm!
An extra glass in front of the screen. Some sand in the bottom, almost covering the taskbar panel. And ants crawling over the windows, chasing the mouse pointer.
Creepy!
)9TSS
When I said I was roasting ants on my AMD Processor.
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Here I thought that installing windows on an antfarm would make it easier to spot them bugs.
Awww, nevermind.
My room had a door to the outside, so I would leave it open to let the anoles in and probably had a good 4 or 5 living in my room at any given time. Since they were there, the ants were not (nor were the cockroaches/palmetto bugs). They took good care of me and they stayed away from the photography chemicals (my room doubled as a darkroom...guess they didn't like the smell...this was another reason why I would leave my door open).
However, sometimes they did there job a little too well. Though I would rarely find any insect life in my room, there were the sad occasions when I would find a dead and mummified anole when cleaning. :-(
Never found one in my computer case though. I wonder what attracted one to yours (heat? electric field? curiosity?)
Anyway, in the war on bugs (hehe), natures defense turned out to be the best defense in my experience. Especially the geckos. If you have an insect problem and can effectively seal off your house/apartment/room, catch or buy a gecko and set it loose in there. Don't forget to catch it after a few days, because it will probably eat everything and you need to keep it from starving. Then you can either set it free, or keep it in an aquarium and feed it crickets and stuff until you need it to be out and around again.
At least, these were my experiences. YMMV.
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Predatory fish live long happy lives. The ubiquitous Oscar, for example, has no problem living beyong 15 years in captivity (from first hand experience). Piranhas can exceed 20 years happily in captivity. Don't believe me? Check out the piranhas at the Baltimore Aquarium.
Most predatory fish, BTW, are more sedentary than the fish that they feed on. The food fish are the ones that live fast and die young. The longest I've been able to get them to live is about 10 years (black tetras, three of 'em).
Your friend with the barracudas is a bad example of a fish keeper. You should not form opinions of fish longevity from his inability to keep anything alive.
It'd be interesting to observe the effect that the temperature and vibration of an operating PC would have on the ants."
Al that noise and low level radiation wil problably kill the ants.
Its rather a cruel thought m8ty
Shouldn't the topic be "bugs"?
This is too funny seeing this here. A couple weeks back we had some ants on the kitchen table (a few here and there) and I got rid of 'em. A while later there were a few more. I didn't see anything sticky that they might be going for, but I decided to clear off the table and wipe it down to make sure.
Well, one of the things I had on the table that needed clearing off was my laptop. When I lifted it up there were a bunch of ants underneath it and that's when I noticed there were a bunch more crawling in and out of the cooling holes. I saw at least one of them with some kind of a crumb or something and since I seriously doubt he got it from inside the laptop, my best guess was that he was carrying it from wherever he found it to store it in the laptop.
I had the laptop on the kitchen table for a few days at this point and it had been on the whole time so it was running plenty hot. The ants didn't seem to mind at all. I guess if they can live in Arizona then they wouldn't mind the interior of a laptop either. The only thing I never figured out is why they would go there in the first place? Was there some kind of noise drawing them in? Did they prefer the higher heat environment?
TW
My attempts to convince a prospective girlfriend that I actually "designed" a "cockroach housemod" were met with doubt and an early departure...
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
i'd hate to transport this thing back and forth to LAN parties ;)
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TPOIC: ANTfarm
no kidding, at my place the ants live in my TELEPHONE. they just diccided to live there,
i didn't have to do anything. maybe they want internet-access so they can call their buddies *g*.
haven't these people seen pi?
Great Whites have those pores on their noses. In an old (70s?) TV documentary, they try to keep a juvenile White in captivity, but it keeps banging its head into the wall of its circular loop of a tank -- because some wiring's giving off an electrical field near the tank wall there, IIRC.
Wonder if this is a problem for commonly kept species, like Brown sharks or Nurses? Maybe it's more your pelagic species that rely on this sense so much that they get distracted in a tank? Those'd be the ones that would need it for navigation more...
(Maybe our dream of sharks in the walls of titanium laptops will go forever unfulfilled.)
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Once a rat invaded my apartment. It found a home in the wiring mess behind my stereo. It became a literal rat's nest.
This story is really sucking down the mod points - 90% of stories have been modded as something.
Cool ant mod though , hmm how about one with fish ?
dont know how you would work that though....
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Very interesting -- thanks!
-kgj
Oh, Come on... I've got ants in half my machines at work... It's called being in the basement at the university which used to do ant experiments, and working near cornsyrup. (JK, I actually acetone all the ants to death. Yes I know it's flamable, but I try to be careful around live computers.)
-=fshalor
Hrmmm even though he used fish instead of ants, its still a pretty neat idea. I would imagine tho, that with all the vibration (from fans, air flow, and even a fast CDROM or DVDRom spinning up and down) would cause the tunnels to collapse on the ants.
Throw in a flattened Godzilla sized insect and you have some great late night entertainment, much more fun than a bug zapper and a case of Pabst!
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All your output would be buggy.
Actually I think they are real. Looked like Neon tetra. Cute, but no way I would do it. Tough enough to maintain a regular tank, not to mention the hasels if you need to work on the pc. Ill stick to my 30G tank and un-moded pc case.
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We look for pirates and search for gold.
Life is an adventure with the Sea People
They don't ever conplain, they don't call me fat.
They don't make me do homework or nothin' like that.
This is the way life was meant to be. Laughin' and singing,
Sea people and me.
Sea people and me, you guys.
*sigh*, too much South Park
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Do you have a thing for normal ant-farms apart from PC cases? Do you bring ant-farms to your LAN parties, and find the lack of integration with your PC to be a hassle? Do your friends? Have you had even a passing thought about an ant-farm since you last saw one ion 3rd grade science class?
If not, then why is this cool?
Edith Keeler Must Die
A friend's son did a couple of science experiments with fruit flies, strapping their container to the side of a PowerMac 5200, and the rate of birth defects was huge, probably due to the EMF, noise or vibration.
He repeated his experiment to negate the difference in heat and had nearly identical results.
Crap like that always makes me a little nervous.
You forgot HEX's label: "Anthill Inside"
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Just wait until the animal rights groups here about this travesty.
Yeah, I had some geckos in my PC when I lived in teh Philippines. They didn't hurt anytying, and they do stop misquitos...
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The image on this page illustrates that thought nicely. The size of each creature represents how abundant it is on earth.
One thing I must say..
When the ants die, and they WILL die, you get a nice little smell in your room or office that will make anyone within a 20 foot radius evacuate their midday sustinance. That stuff STINKS.
Overtime, I find my ports, sometimes drives and particularly my fan ducts get rather dusty... Solution: 1. Ant farm case mod 2. Hungry aardvark
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No one can forget the compu-termites.
God kills a hundred ants.
Gastrobotics
There was a previous Slashdot article on it:
A Robot That Runs On A Sugar High
The link in there no longer works, but this one does:
Meat-eating robot has (g)astronomic potential
Basically, the robot has a "belly" full of the E-coli virus which is used to generate electricity (ala The Matrix). Now we only need to figure out how to create an "ant-Matrix" to power our PCs...
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
Does anyone remember a post some time ago with a thread about "bugs" in PC hardware. Apparently ants and such are attracted to the radiation or vibration/whatever from a PC. They also find the coating on many motherboards mighty tasty.
I wonder if the ants are enjoying the vibes in their new home, or if they secretly plotting a way to escape and dig into that tasty tasty motherboard.
I think it is pretty obvious that the guy that wrote this article didn't actually mod that case. The entire article is just a commercial for one product or another, and the description of how he put it together was a weak two sentences that amounted to no more than, "I put it together". I won't even address the issue of there not being any before pictures. I wish techTV would stop being a bunch of corporate whores and start trying to develop quality programming that gamers are actually interested in. It became pretty evident that they weren't even trying to provide quality info when one of the hosts of their shows started refering to a Final Fantasy game as "one of those RTS XPG things".
...be one of those sadists who used to run ants in the microwave as a kid, do you?
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
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SANDKINGS
-Styopa
Oh silly me thinking, animals, computers and caffien: bad idea.
Then someone proves me right
what a dumb idea. seriously
Throatwarbler Mangro: Good one. :)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
wow what could be a more of a turn on for the ladies than to go up to your room in your moms house and see you awsome puter with the kickass antfarm built in-play on playa..lol
Rember the article about removing ants from a G4 latop
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Now if someone can figure out how to get an ant farm to actually power the PC (think the Matrix), I'll be really interested :-)
Plus it would be fun to try and implement an entire ant society in software.
Safari, feel the word sliding over your lips. Do you feel the rhythm, sure you do. It's definitely gay.
IPod, feel the word sliding over your lips. Do you feel the rhythm, sure you do. It's definitely gay.
Gay, feel the word sliding over your lips. Do you feel the rhythm, sure you do. It's definitely Apple.
Consider, that ant colony is higly parallel. Consider, that one ant colony is one data word. I don't know how many ants occupy a typical colony (1-10 mln?), but it would be magificent machine.
And for last, consider that Rincewind programs the whole machine?... ;)