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Ant Farm PC

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."

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  1. simpons mental picture by adamruck · · Score: 4, Funny

    why does simpsons come to mind?

    Im picturing homer in space when the ants get loose in the space ship.

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    1. Re:simpons mental picture by shogun · · Score: 4, Funny

      I for one will welcome our new insect overlords.

    2. Re:simpons mental picture by clambake · · Score: 3, Funny

      Having ants learn how to sort tiny screws would actually come in handy in this case...

  2. Too bad it's only a case-mod by eric434 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 :-)

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    1. Re:Too bad it's only a case-mod by Kenja · · Score: 2, Funny

      Before or after it was given its teddy bear from the Hog Father / Death?

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    2. Re:Too bad it's only a case-mod by polaar · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yet no one has posted the obligatory Pratchett Pratchett reference joke yet: Anthill Inside!

    3. Re:Too bad it's only a case-mod by Shillo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just to stress the main feature of the Hex: ANTHILL INSIDE. :)

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    4. Re:Too bad it's only a case-mod by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

      Does HEX use BeeOS?

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  3. My computer has enough bugs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    *groan*

    1. Re:My computer has enough bugs... by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 3, Funny

      I got an Alienware-Ant-Farm, ba-doom, pssh!

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  4. Idea for an experiment! by qewl · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Idea for an experiment! by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why not get a hamster, on a wheel, powering the computer ? Oh wait, I use an AMD... and 400 hamsters dying of heat exposure would not be nice.

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    2. Re:Idea for an experiment! by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

      I suspect they'd just dig a disco hall and throw ragers all night long.

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  5. snake pc mod by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
  6. Next time on Oprah. by Mondoz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Overclocked Watercooled Ants?

    Do they work faster with higher bus speeds?

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    1. Re:Next time on Oprah. by IICV · · Score: 2, Funny
      Of course they do!

      The only problem is getting buses that small.

    2. Re:Next time on Oprah. by MikeMc · · Score: 2, Funny


      "Overclocked Watercooled Ants" would be a great name for a rock band.

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  7. Sim Ants by AmVidia+HQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 2003

    Live action expansion pack (tm)

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  8. nah... by romco · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for the "sea monkey" case

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  9. Re:This begs the question.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of old jokes? Talk about a nightmare...

  10. Re:If this was *BSD the ants would do all the work by IICV · · Score: 3, Funny
    If it were Windows, all the ants would turn blue and stop working whenever they encountered something unexpected.

    If it were Unix, the ants would all ignore anything unexpected, even if that meant walking into it repeatedly.

  11. And to think by Perdition · · Score: 5, Funny

    people said that Linux wasn't ready for your ants and uncles...

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  12. Re:If this was *BSD the ants would do all the work by scubacuda · · Score: 4, Funny
    And if they were SCO ants, they'd kill the Linux ants, only to be eventually eaten by the Windows ants.

  13. Nope. by inertia187 · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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  14. Re:Ants? by cybermace5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Practical Use: Obtain several radio-controlled cars. Attach a crude spark-gap high voltage coil to each. Drive the cars around the countryside gathering a swarm of fire ants. Make a red skin-tight costume (don't forget the cape), practice your "evil laugh" and TAKE OVER!

    The ANTMASTER will make you cry "UNCLE!"

    And his PUNS are every bit as torturous as his fire-ant swarm!

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  15. Re:Forget the heat/vibrations, what about the EM? by zutroy · · Score: 3, Funny

    When ants take over the earth, we'll all wish that we had listened to you.

  16. Re:worse then vibration by zutroy · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a physicist and a biologist, I can confirm that it will fuck them up.

  17. Feeding??? by wideBlueSkies · · Score: 2, Funny

    Photo Caption:

    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?

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  18. Re:idea by TrumpetPower! · · Score: 4, Funny

    s/ants/fish/

    then you have a cool case

    No...then you have chowder.

    Cheers,

    b&

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  19. ASCII ants by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 3, Funny

    The server is /.'ed, here is an ASCII-image of the ants:

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    more picture here

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!

    Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.

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  20. Re:Ants? by IICV · · Score: 2, Funny
    However, if you are stupid enough to use freaking fire ants in your case, you deserve whatever's coming for you.

    Those buggers can kill humans, not to mention chew through plastic.

    There should be no problem with the normal varieties that don't break out and carry off young children.

  21. Re:Finally! by FireballFreddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    C'mon now, no more making fun of Windows for being buggy. That's like making fun of a retarded kid wearing a crash helmet. Sure, it's worth a laugh, but the laugh isn't socially acceptable. Keep it on the inside.

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  22. You know you've been reading /. too long when... by ruiner13 · · Score: 3, Funny
    you say something like:

    "It'd be interesting to observe the effect that the temperature and vibration of an operating PC would have on the ants."

    'nuff said.

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  23. Re:More details? by petecarlson · · Score: 5, Funny

    "your local bookshop" had around 3,000 hits but it didn't help.

  24. honey? by bilbobuggins · · Score: 3, Funny

    'why are there bugs all over your computer?'
    'those aren't bugs, they're features'

  25. i don't think you need to worry about it by lingqi · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  26. See? by rune2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ant ain't just a cool Java tool!

  27. Imagine by pyro_peter_911 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf clusteAAArrrrrgggghhhhh Get Them Off Of Me!!!

  28. I got a better idea, forget ants how about... by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 2, Funny
    Bees!

    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?

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  29. Incompatibility by Throatwarbler+Mangro · · Score: 5, Funny
    What Kevin failed to mention in his notes is a major flaw in this system...

    It's incompatible with RAID arrays.

    Yes, I'm ashamed of myself for that one :)

  30. Re:They showed a working one... by nettdata · · Score: 2, Funny

    it would really suck to be one of those ants.

    yeah, cuz being any OTHER ant would be cool!

    ;)

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  31. Re:and pcb's by Nogami_Saeko · · Score: 3, Funny

    All your....

    Nope. Not going there ;)

    N.

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  32. A better idea! by pesc · · Score: 2, Funny

    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!

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  33. Re:Freedom! Horrible Freedom! by pe1rxq · · Score: 2, Funny
    PCBs contain some foodstuffs.


    Don't know about that, but they sure as hell contain a lot of poisonstuffs...

    Jeroen

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  34. Re:They showed a working one... by Afrosheen · · Score: 3, Funny

    The ants here in Texas don't mind the summer heat, so I doubt an AMD case would be much different.

    Actually it might be nicer since at least they get a breeze from the fans.

  35. Re:Hammerhead Sharks & Electric Fields by gosand · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.

    So *that's* why there was a hammerhead shark in my PC case the other day. I wondered how he got in there.

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  36. Re:idea by tigris · · Score: 2, Funny

    ewww, dude.

  37. Re:Biological display unit? by chmod000 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Imagine the maintenance! Literal "dead pixels"!

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  38. Every time you upgrade your video card by blair1q · · Score: 2, Funny

    God kills a hundred ants.

  39. Re:They showed a working one... by ProfessionalCookie · · Score: 2, Funny
    But what if someone:
    %>mv /dev/ants* /dev/null ???
  40. Re:Keep that Anole! by spun · · Score: 3, Funny

    I lived in Waianae, on the leeward coast of Oahu. Our house was on a farmlot way back in Waianae valley. At any one time, we had several hundred geckos in and around the house.

    I liked 'em, but they creeped out Chisa, my roommate's daughter. She would get her revenge when they crawled on the outside of the window screens. She'd flick the screen with her finger, and the litl' guys would go sailing off into the night.

    The worst part about geckos is that the males love to fight each other. They also like to crawl on the ceiling. Did I mention I sleep with my mouth open?

    Nothing like waking up to find a pissed off, defeated male gecko in your mouth.

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