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zeptic writes "How about an aquarium in your running computer? This casemod shows you how it's done. The cool pictures can be found on the same site page, and there is an English summary on the last page."
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Do they come in the pretty colors.
to electrocute yourself. Leave the fish out of it!
Fishy go BZZZT!
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
This is really neat thing to do.. For all who do mod up there pc box they do look cool. BUT.. is it just a waste of money.. I guess it is depnding on how many people look at your computer.. i don't know i wanted to buy some PC light of Think Geek.. But no one looks at mine but me..
Overclock your CPU and GPU and get free fish soup! Just add carrots!
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
This puts a whole new spin to Netscape's Amazing Fishcam.
On the plus side, it would be a quick and easy way to make dinner. George Foreman, eat your heart out...
Goo goo g'joob.
This guy put an ant farm in his case.
woowoo That site is loading slow and getting /.ed
but this picture ( http://www.hardware-test.dk/images/litteratur/th-2 013-14.jpg )
Is worth checking it out... That just looks *COOL*
Though, I wonder about algae growth due to heat.
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
boil a fish in twenty seconds.
Fill it with grease and you've got yourself fried flounder.
Say hello to the new dorm microwave.
Alex.
You don't even need an external heater for your tropical fish!
I thought someone actually put an aquarium in their case, instead of that cheesy ass storebought Lian-Li side panel.. That 3dhardware guy (the guy with the video reviews) did one of these a long time ago... for shame zeptic
Hamster Pc Case !
You can get the kit for this mod at Think Geek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
Like THAT site is gonna last long.
--LordKaT
That's a fake plastic fish aquarium! Now show me a REAL one and it might be interesting...
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You know, if you used the aquarium as part of your cpu cooling system, you can have pre-cooked fish for every meal! Very efficient, cost-effective, and downright healthy!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
They're plastic fish! This is nothing new, you can buy these cases off the shelf.
Because they're going to have to like warm water.
I thought a PC case was a metal box to stop EM radiation/interference etc surely cutting huge holes in your case isnt going to do much other than piss off the local Taxi firm,ham radio,cb,baby alarms,ambulances,fire tenders,baby alarms,police oh and probably kill the fish.
why bother having interference laws and emission regulations egh ?
You wouldn't believe it. I'm going to turn my case into a hampster cage! That's right, wheel and all. Bernards water bottle will be hooked up to my water cooling system. It's going to be soo cool.
I did an aquarium monitor roughly a year ago.
/.'d but it would probably complement the case.
http://www.techfreakz.org/fishmon/
I can't see their website now because it's
Thinkgeek has been selling these very things for ages. Same case, same aquarium kit. Did he buy the thing from Thinkgeek? (apologies if it says in the article... my German is just a little rusty ;))
I don't know what the heck is wrong with their pages. Even before they got slashdotted, they were messed up. This mirror is being built as we speak.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
From the pics it doesn't look like this "computer" has any computer components in it. Like, drives, a motherboard... anything? He mentions having a hard drive mounted on the bottom, and I see that picture, but other than that... Is this a case mod or a fish tank in a computer case? I'm not very impressed by the latter.
I suppose this could be better explained if I could read German.
This looks fishy!
Put and take in a case, no way.
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This product is available from thinkgeek.com - a company owned by the same company that owns slashdot I believe.
Excellent product, I thought of buying it. Might still, my daughter's clunker is boring as anything.
But should slashdot be pushing product like this?
M@
Krispy Cream is people
Yawn.
Here's an idea for a casemod that would actually impress me:
Get some expensive pure water, some with NO corrosive dissolved oxygen, and completely electrically neutral, meaning no OH- and H+ ions. I realize that water is self-ionizing, so the removal of these ions might need to be continuous.
Unpack, assemble, and run your awesome computer in a container full of this stuff.
I don't care how expensive or chemically unfeasible that would be, but that would actually be impressive. I've heard of computers running submerged in vegetable oil before, since vegetable oil is made of large covalent molecules, but I don't care. I want an underwater computer.
The proper thing would be an ANT FARM , especially if you run Microsoft stuff on the box.
What if you combined this with another project?
I suppose all of that Fluorinert probably wouldn't be too good for the fishies, though.
Hypothetically, could oxygen even be dissolved in Fluorinert? (I'm thinking not as it's probably a nonpolar fluid, but whatever)...
"How about an aquarium in your running computer?"
How about not?
The coolest voice ever.
That is the most killer case mod I have ever seen. If you are going to take the time to mod your case, you might as well make a it a real product of artistic and creative expression and go all out like this.
From the site:
"Sa plumpes de i akvariet, og en god ide er at lade 3 af fiskene svomme den ene vej og 3 de 3 sidste den anden vej, idet de ikke kan vende sig rundt, nar de er kommet i."
Which translates roughly into (its danish):
"Next they are put into the aquarium, and it is a good idea to let 3 of the fish swim one way and the last 3 the other way, since they can't turn after they are put in."
Isn't that slightly cruel?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6169/
It's a Lian-Li case with a window with fake fish. Nothing too exciting, here...
people have been doing this for years with old macs
no, wait for it...
SCHOOL of those!!!
I would'nt call a clear hollow panel filled with toys and water an aquarium. Note, if anyone gets the idea to do something like this with real fish, be sure to use a titanium anode to pull the water to ground potential. Transient currents can play havoc with some fishes. Guppies probably would work best. They are pretty immune to current transients and can tollerate temps up to 35C. Guppies are also not bothered too much by light coming in at strange angels. One more point, concidering the small surface area, one will need to turn the water over at least 5 times/hour.
how else is the oss community supposed to raise funds to pay their developers?
bite my glorious golden ass.
spray-painted a motherboard, and had some fun running it underwater, going to try some other shit soon... We were talking about using clear spraypaint next time. We also talked about making a fishtank, but as people we don't really give a shit about fish, so we'll just get cheap goldfish whenever we want to show it off.
... that will stop the cat from walking on my keyboard. If I can keep him transfixed on the fish he won't bother me.
Saw this at the Nvidia(?) booth at LinuxWorld last week (Moscone Center, San Francisco). Funny.. more interesting than the droid I spent 10 seconds talking to...
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Now I consider myself a serious geek, and I seldom ask "Why?", but in this case (pun intended) I think this is truly a purposeless and possibly dangerous mod.
What's next? The urinal case mod?
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
That's nothing - my friend at college uses the heat in his computer to grow psychedelic mushrooms.
He was going to put a website up about it, but then he got high...
What on *earth* is a modcase!??!?!?!?
Vote for global prefs bug
It's been done for real before... Aqua Tank
At least watercooling offers some kind of benefit for the risk taken...
...would that be a school of fish?
If you put an electric eel in it, will it also serve as a power supply? :P
John Kerry is a Joke!
In the write up, the modder stated that Neons were selected because of the wide tempurature range. If one were to keep Neons at a constant 28C, they would fade fairly fast. Cardinal Tetras are a much better choice and look simular.
How do you lug that sumbitch to a LAN party?
And hope you dont have any cheats on the game...
Ugh!
= Grow a brain...
... unless its got living fish in it.
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Nothing geekier than following the instructions, hunh?!
An electric eel could do cool things like power the idiotic glowing cables that hardcore case modders buy from TigerDirect.
The flag just makes more sense than the constitution. - Judas Gutenberg
I like the MacQuarium better...
/. these servers, hit 1 and choose randomly :)
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Try not to
http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/macquarium/sh
http://www.techquarium.com/
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In case you missed this when it was posted before or in the other posts in this thread, someone did make a real aquarium mod.
I saw it set up in at a computer shop here in .au in late June. They sell the aquarium window as well.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
People seem concerned with the electrical current's effect on the fish, but, having killed my share of goldfish in my day, I'd be more concerned with the changes in water temperature between when the thing was running and when it was not.
Somebody might be doing a lot of scooping.
.... My fish got sucked into my waterblock. All these gooey bits will take a year to clean out.. X(
De-ionized water is one of the best solvents known to man. It will litterally eat everything out of the computer in effort to get some impurities.
My uncle specalizes in water quality. He can get you water that measures 18 megaohms resistence. pour some directly from the pipe to a clean glass and you will measure no more than 12 megaohms. In the short time it takes to measure, water has absorbed that many impurities from the air.
Take the pure water (actually de-ionized, impurities are allowed so long as they are not ions...) and and put it into a computer and it will remove the metal from the etching on the board to get some impurities.
Hey this might be the answer to how to keep me from trying to code. All I have to do is type things like itsString = which I do quit often and bingo PawSense will guess the string is a cat request and won't know the diff!
Of course I might have a problem when I cat | diff myself!
But that has always been problematic anyway.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
You can purchase this casemod from ThinkGeek.
It's been available there for some time now..
How do you avoid killing the fish ?
Better not use an Athlon for this.
Besides, people are only just coming to terms with the whole Germany=DE country code thing (makes perfect sense if you speak Deutsche), so I can understand Denmark=DK may seem a bit too sensible. :)
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NOw as long as you have the fake fish in there, why not turn it into some kind of repository for all of the hardcore overclockers out there that water cool their processors. The you would have a wicked cool case mod and a fairly large water resovoir for all your water cooling needs. ;)
Read the flurry article, ppl - this is not a home-made case mod, it's a product review. Treat it accordingly.
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discussed previously on /. at http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/28/133218.shtml
I have a friend who is both a computer geek and a keeper of tropical fish. He has a very large tank in his lounge (nearly two metres long) which is also used to cool his dual Athlon server. The computer is not fed water straight from the tank, that would be silly, he has a heat exchanger and pump system underneath the gravel bed which circulates water from the tank to the CPUs and back again in a closed loop.
Ed Almos
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus, 56-120 A.D.
This could be ideal for one of those fish restaurants where you select the live fish you want to eat. The surplus heat from your computer keeps the aquarium at the right temperature, while the water from the aquarium keeps the EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) cool!
If lobster was involved, then the aquarium could become an instant cookpot by pressing the turbo button on your PC (overclocking your machine and increasing the CPU heat output!)
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Specifically, cutting a hole in the wall between living room and family room to install 200 gallon freshwater.
My wife thinks it's a great idea.
who thought of this while I was reading the article?
When you want to overclock your computer - like at a lan-party, and you're playing Counter-Strike, you could irritate the eel to get that extra bit of power. Of course your eel might get tired after a while..
..........FULL STOP.
If anyone's interested, Thinkgeek sells a mod to do this to your existing case, and a case. They're a bit pricey, though.
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There was a kit available at one time that turned an old Mac Plus or Mac SE into an aquarium . . .
The "-ium" suffix implies an ion... an ammonium ion is NH4+.
"AMMONIA" is NH4.
P.S. Someone tell the /. people they need to enable subscripts and superscripts in HTML.
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