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17" Monitor Case Modding -- The "iMike"
greyrax writes "So what does a Canadian cabinet maker who's a closet techie do during those long winter months? You modify a 17" monitor case to house your computer (think iMac).
The blow-by-blow descriptions and pictures outline this three-month project. The only question that I'm left with is 'What is that antenna for?'"
...of Macintosh envy.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Just what I wanted! The size of a CRT and the quality of a LCD!
What is that antenna for?
That's the gear shift, you insensitive clod!
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
...from John Deere
It may not look like an iMac, but it's just as ugly.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
hideous? :)
Are you kidding? Here in Iowa that color (especially when paired with yellow) is very popular.
The whole thing is really cool, but what about a keybaord? He shows two mice but no keyboard, I guess you can just paste stuff from the character map.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it dissolve.
Let me guess - LCD panels on the side for that funky virtual window thang :D
"Well yes actually, Ive got a Quad Athlon 128 in there with a GeForce 6 running at 18GHZ. Oh, and you can clearly see the 4TB of memory on the board"
liqbase
This thing is a farm implement. It's a high-quality farm implement, and I admire his work ethic, but it's still a farm implement.
;-)
I think that this compares to (in appearance anyways) to those silly rice boys who take a honda civic and lower it and put on a big wing and muffler and wacky paint job.
The term to describe this look is the "angry kitchen appliance" look.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
So much time could be saved on Slashdot if people would put this sentence at the beginning of their posts, instead of at the end.
~Idarubicin
"This thing is a farm implement. It's a high-quality farm implement, and I admire his work ethic, but it's still a farm implement."
Dude, he's Candian!
'Nough said.
KFG
"When a woman, walks into your home office"
See?...
That feeling goes up exponentially thinking about someone trying to discharge the caps without someone there who knows what they're doing to guide them.
Don't worry, they'll have no trouble discharging the capacitors...
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No, YOU ARE WRONG!
:)
Holy crap, dude, don't pop your sphincter - it's just a website after all. Breathe in. Breathe out. Now, don't we feel better?
Personally, I don't care what the antenna is connected to - when you're being pedantic enough to put all your junk in a 17" monitor case, you hang antennae on it just because. See the beauty?
But what does my opinion matter, I just vote here. It's not like I have any money or anything.
Is that what happens when an iMac gets assimilated by the Borg? :::shudder:::
It may come as a shock, but XP has terminals too. You can also to such crazy things as run emacs and ssh. I know, it sounds crazy- and the first time I heard this, I didn't believe it either! All these years of people telling me that you could only run Solitaire and FPS on Windows... All these years were a lie. Well, at least people like you are lucky to have nice folks like me keep you out of the closet of ignorance! :)
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I can vouch for that. In college I had occasional work wiring telephone and computer systems when companies moved to new locations. I was in the habit of stripping the inner insulation from the phone wire with my teeth until the day the wire I had just stripped touched my eyelid right as the phone rang with the other wire in my mouth...
Who says I learned nothing in school?
Hey!!! the parentheses are good for something
Mother.....I'm TRYING to build a computer....