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Greasy Spoon writes "Behold! The most ultimate XBox in the whole world. After growing tired with the dull black appearence of this guy's XBox (even with the green lighting skin added) he decided to spruce it up a bit."
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with like 40 pics on a single page, and thousands of /.ers clicking every single link they stumble upon, I can see the 500 error page in my crystal ball...
The IT section color scheme sucks.
It's an XBox in a plastic case. Somehow that just doesn't excite me much.
He might as well be hosting it off his Xbox, considering how Slashdotted his site is.
Look at the rest of the comments. As Willow might say, bored now.
"My XBox is naked!!!...
but it doesn't light up, and that's a problem for me..."
The God of Hubris sits in amazement as he wonders what is so great about a plastic to plexiglass with lights conversion. He then realizes how easily the title of 'God of modding' is and is content with hubris.
Now does it still work ???
I like the key-lock concept, great way to prenvent your children from playing when you don't want them to be playing.
YAFIRL (Yet another Free iPods referral link)
While I applaud your for your efforts, isnt this thing a little big? I mean it looks like it has twice the volume of the other case.
I would be more impressed if you took some of the original shape or something so you could look at it and still recognize it as an XBOX.
complaining aside, good work with the plexi, I would have a mishapen mess and nothing but scratches and abrasions
Boredom's not a burden anyone should bear.
"Document contains no data" Seriously is there something like Bit Torrent for whole websites? regards, Chris
Beings aspergers AND pulling chicks... I enjoy the challenge!
The only thing missing are the fish, it looks like a bleeding aquarium.
The most ultimate slashdotting in the whole world!
Romana: "How did you know?" Doctor Who: "Ah, well, knowing is easy. Everyone does THAT ad nauseum. I just sort of hope"
I guess this voids his waranty then :)
does it cook a turkey in under 3 1/2 hours?
I'm not sure how this sits with me.
My $.02
Ohh the HUMANITY!
GPLv2: I want my rights, I want my phone call! DRM: What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
the above poster was modded down, and a similar post below with similar content (something about the site begin /.ed) got modded up.
here.
I don't understand though, most people case mod to make things smaller/nicer.
He managed to take an already huge XBox and turn it into something even bigger.
Why not just put a normal PC inside that case then? Heh.
Uh I don't know .... when they let AC's like you fill up the boards with mindless rants.
he decided to spruce it up a bit
That's nothing. Check out this spruced-up case mod.
This guy's server is gonna have a "dull black appearance" once the flames it must be belching at the moment are extinguished, judging by the degree to which the Slashdot Effect is hammering it...
It looks like its twice the size of the original X-Box. I can understand why someone would want to put the X-Box in a new case, but quite frankly this looks worse than the original casing. Im not particularly impressed!
...
nick
Electronic Music Made Using Linux http://soundcloud.com/polyp
TODO: Something witty here...
I'd think god would have steadier hands with a dremel tool....
Not to cross the threads, but if he did two of these, would they be X-Boxen?
If someone could post a complete linguistic analysis leading to a 100-post flamewar, that would be nice.
Thanks.
- "When you want something with all your heart, the entire universe conspires to give it to you" -Paulo Coelho
not to have read the story yet feel the need to comment on how dumb this story is :)
A witty saying proves you are wittier than the next guy.
My XBox DVD Rom drive is broken.
<MS> Ok, no problem sir, we can replace it - is your warranty still valid?
<owner> Well, it's in date...
<MS> Have you done anything like adding a new hard disk sir?
<owner> Errr, no... not as such... just some small comsmetic changes in fact.
<MS> Stickers? Those are covered.
<owner> Not exactly.
<MS> Paint? I think we can live with that.
<owner> Well, I sort of ripped it apart and made a new case for it.
<MS> ?!
<owner> Which glows. But thats not why it's broken! I never went near the DVD with the hammer when I was taking the case apart.
<MS> !!
<owner> Hey, when you take it back for repair, you will be careful not to scratch the pexi glass right? Or break the soldering on the new LEDs.
<click - call terminated>
Beep beep.
I was intrigued by the title, thinking that Plex86 was FINALLY good enough to allow me to dump my overpriced (and hence pirated) VMWare from my PC. But nooo, it's about some fucking stupid case mod for the X-Box.
Yeah, like THAT is "stuff that matters". Fuckers.
GEWD LUKK!
No Americans or Europeans yet.
Words are not needed to properly express it's coolness.
I'm not that good with words anyway.
this dude can't even code simple html.
"most ultimate" - that's a rather strange phrase, I think. Doesn't the word ultimate already imply that something is, well, ultimate? There shouldn't be different levels of ultimacy...
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
I saw this guy and this exact plexbox on ebay yesterday. I just looked as I was going to post the url but it seems to have vanished? It wasn't selling for much more than the normal $179. I have a feeling ebay performed a dmcation on it since it was modified from it's original state??
I sold a jason costume on Ebay after halloween and ebay and Warner Bros/Bitches I was infringing on their copyright? I told them to fuck off since I was selling a costume I bought from a company that was manufacturing it. All this dmca/drm shit is getting beyond ridiculous...
You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
Tipware here is giving information at perhaps just the cost of distribution, yet accepting donations. The publisher could possibly make much more doing it this way. I don't see cheaper prices with notices to donate on games now.
-Libertarian secular transhumanist
It's the most ultimate XBox!
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Don't like it? Respond with words, not karma.
How many sides is that?
You're just mad because the voices in your head talk to me.
It needs a few more blinking lights and a pedantic voice, but it could be done!
Ahh, I see. The most ultimate. As opposed to the less ultimate ones, such as the moderately ultimate and least ultimate.
talk about the penultimate x-box.
(heh also note the way the submitter just copied the webpage text and changed a few personal pronouns. i am in awe of such laziness.)
Karma: T-rexcellent.
To quote the late great Bill Hicks:
"Quick Capsule Review: 'Piece Of Shiiit!'"
Seriously. It's fucken ugly. There's a reason more manufacturers out there aren't investigating clear perspex. Computer insides are not aesthetically pleasing.
So the next time you're thinking about modding your boxen stop and say to yourself: "Can I do better than simply dumping my computer's insides into a fish tank?"... The answer, if you're wondering, is a resounding yes.
I'll just stick with http://www.mini-itx.com/projects.asp for my mod-viewing pleasure... (Hey, some of them are pretty nifty...)
1) Build ugly ridiculous looking xbox mod, because I can ...
2)
3) Make ludicrous amounts of money
Is step 2 slashdot+eBay?
Is it just me or are all case mods the same these days? Add plexiglass, lights, leds, maybe vaguely interesting feature (X2 logo).
Does anyone else remember when case modding used to be cool? Where are the stylish custom stickers? (some nice ones on penny-arcade a while ago) The lego man stuck in cryo in the optical mouse? (too lazy to go find this link too)
Why isn't anyone pulling apart their CD/DVD tray and making that out of plexiglass?
In summary, novel and innovative=cool, gratuitous use of plexiglass and lights=lame. (Soz for all the whining).
This is to notify you that you are in violation of the DMCA. All MS hardware includes proprietary encrypted screws and advanced adhesive patented security technology to protect our IP. By removing these technological protections, and exposing the underlying technology, you have violated more IP rights than you can possible imagine. You are a terrorist. The FBI will soon be at your house to throw you in a dark deep dungeon.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
He made a big plexiglas box and stuck the guts of an Xbox in it. Oh, and he added a few green lights too. Some "God of modding".
When I read the headline the first thing that popped into my head was that someone had branched Plex86 and started a real XBox emulator. Now THAT would be newsworthy, as opposed to this butt ugly casing...
LAME!!! I'm sorry but there are far far far better xbox mods out there.
The past is just the present only older -me-
Lissen up folks, just because someone does a really good job cutting plexi and mounting stuff to it doesn't make it a good case mod. It's a box. My dead granny can make something more imaginitve than this.
Clearly (based on the pics) he does not own a TV, leaving the xbox itself as the only form of physical entertainment.
The black box must have been as boring as hell.
USA, I don't have a child beacause I am an ugly obese unemployed but still Bush(jr.)-voting republican loser.
P.S.: God damn these sex-having people, fucker's fuckin' fucked women's breasts, I shoot you down for real.
6 is number 1? You must live in Alberta.
Where I live past 9 pm some of the mid-number channels have hard core pornography. I flipped to the movie networks (not any special porn channel) just browsing around a couple of weeks ago and they had close ups of dick-in-pussy plunging. Everyone knows kids can access these channels.
what a loser. Has nothing better to do than waste hours trying to replace a plastic case?
I'm really surprised that more manufacturers haven't jumped on selling replacement transparent and/or coloured cases made to otherwise look like the originals for the most recent wave of consoles.
It's easy to find them for the PS1 and Dreamcast, so why not the current ones?
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
From the article:
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I am the God of modding, now if only god had a better camera...
If only he had a basic HTML handbook.       
I searched for this penis-thingy, but couldn't find one. I just seem to have a kind of hairy, wet slit - does anyone have a clue what's the purpose of that thing.
This is great. It's too bad that you can't play good games on anything that runs Linux though. Oh Well, Just buy Microsoft stuff and play games on that. And then use Linux for work and server stuff.
Microsoft stuff always works for games.
is a spoiler.
Rice-Box(tm)
Ben
Work Safe Porn
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?s=070631998 8c808fc1d56e5019740786f&act=ST&f=24&t=71196&hl =
And we call it X-CRATE
Special Edition Xbox!!
If MS then put the abbreviated name on the box, they won't be able to keep up with the incredible demand!
But does it have hydraulic pumps?
"Hey guys, I have a swell idea! Let's take an already huge and clumsy game console, and make it even LARGER! In fact, let's make it 3 TIMES LARGER!
While we are at it, we can increase its already HORRENDOUS power consumption by ADDING MORE LIGHTS!
This will get us on slashdot for sure!"
Seriously though, most case mods are cool, but this is retarded. Not only does it look like ass but the form factor is now so huge you could'nt even keep it in your entertainment centre. Plus I bet it is significantly noiser now that it isn't in its native housing.
The XBox is already a huge ugly console before doing this.
Seriously anyone else agree? GAYEST XBOX MOD EVER!
A shot from a slightly different angle. I am the God of modding, now if only god had a better camera...
... and as God read this most blasphemous of phrases he struck out at the web server with a flood of hits, each wave more powerful than the last. All that could be saved were two zeroes and two ones.
Who the fuck mod's computers - who the fuck mod's Xbox's? I'll tell ya who. Little dorks that live at home in mom and dad's garage drinking noname brand cola ... Making the Xbox BIGGER, and UGLIER than it currently is, was quite a feat. You're no geek, you're a loser.
I say, whoever Behold'ing that Xbox, be holding one ugly game system.
You're just mad because the voices in your head talk to me.
The guy managed to turn an ugly piece of hardware into something even worse...
So Zeus is the god of Hubris?
where the fuck have you been?
What a hollow shell Slashdot has become.
Sellouts are as sellouts do.
-- "It was as if the paint factories had decided to deal direct with the art galleries." - Thursday Next
Good God... After reading your comment, I thought I would search e-bay for "xbox mod" and holy shit... Here it is:
"It easier to do a lame X-Box mod, than getting this guy laid"
Someone should make a Lego case for it instead, like the lego computer case I saw once 8-O
Kamran A
"This is my friend Brad Price."
We should all take heart, I suppose, that someone who would embark on a project so geeky can still have a friend.
Note, however, that he did use an absolute singular: "my friend" instead of "one of my freinds".
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
Cool - All you have to do now is change the stuff inside the box and change the company that sold it, and it will be perfect.
Still, with a name like his I would like to meet the winning bidder...
The ______ Agenda
Texas: 6, 5, 3, 4, 1, 2
There have been tons of much better XBox mods. Not only is this one completely unimpressive, it's even butt-ass fugly. It would have been better if MjO's "xXx" mod was posted here.
Y2K Compliant since the late 1890s
Now that the shielding is removed, does the TV still work? Or does the EMF screw up the picture?
must be a slow news day. I think the stock Xbox looks way better.
Boring, Lame, Unimpressive.
Would this get a notice if it were a PC? I think not. Are we going to have articles on every peripheral and console that gets thrown in a plastic box with some neon? Is there some significance I'm missing here?
Perhaps this was some sort of DMCA test case. No pun intended. If Microsoft comes down on this guy, they'll look like the tyrants they are. If they don't, perhaps other types of mod will have an easier time of it.
And I'm not talking about the ones where they take a dremel and make something look like the sistine chapel...
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
He took a console, of which many of the complaints center around 'its freakin huge' and made it BIGGER
Yay me!
I move that all these stupid riceboy case mods get their own section, so that I can uncheck the box and NEVER FUCKING SEE THESE ARTICLES AGAIN!
I'll even suggest an icon.
This case mod is not all that impressive. Whats with all these advertisments lately disguised as posts?
I cringe every time I see one of these plexiglas masterpieces. It may look cool, for certain values of cool, but where is the shielding?
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Toss it in plexiglass and light it up. Wow. I'm so excited...
Not much of a mod, IMO
"Can I do better than simply dumping my computer's insides into a fish tank?"
With the bzzzt-ing and the fizzing and the fish backstroke swimming!
I can't believe some fool actually bought that tupperware-on-steriods crapfest on ebay. A-nyway here is a much better example of encasing components in plastic.
I am not sure, but you might want to try putting something in it. Let us know if anything cool happens.
Hahaha!
I don't know. I'm sure the plexiglass work is good and all, but that sucks. He took the xbox (which is a pretty gross case to begin with) and made a big ugly plexiglass box.
wha!!!??
why?!?!
Why is it on the front page of slashdot??!!
A steady hand with a dremel tool would have helped a lot more. Buy another sheet of plexiglas and redo the damn top, sheesh.
Look in amazment of my leet modding skillz... ...I spent some time and rigged up this bitchin 6 position DP rotary switch to controll the speed (and noise) of the fans.
Behold! See what he did there? It's some kind of unfunny joke everyone missed!
what an incredible waste of time.
http://www.awwsheezy.com
This one time me and my buddies set fire to this old shed and it burnt to the ground and it was like the most ultimate shed mod and then this other time we had a whole case of beer and we drank every can and it was the most ultimate case of beer mod and then this other time I got hit by a bus and killed and I never modded anything again. Fuck.
Now wash your hands.
if you dip a turd in chocolate, its still
shit on the inside.
It looks like an elderly radioactive goat took a dump in a box.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Look in amazment of my leet modding skillz.
Ph33r also my mind-numbingly shocking command of English, and my consistently retarded inability to put semicolons on the end of my entities! Cower in awe of the fact that I obviously did not even LOOK at the web page after I created it! I am so l33t.
This sig is part of your complete breakfast.
Behold! The most ultimate XBox in the whole world.
Umm, ok, it's an XBox-turned-dayglo-fishtank. So where does the ultimate part come in? Does it magically play good games now? I don't think so, Tim.
This thing looks like shit, I feel sorry for the sucker who bought it on Ebay. Bigger! Uglier! But it glows so cool?
Ultimate... Xbox... Sorry, I just don't think those two words go together.
Or does this mod site read like SuperGreg?
n/t
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
I'll wait until I have no friends left to play with, then come crawling back.
BTW, nice set of balls on ya, posting AC and all.
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
Oh, my brother, indeed not.
don't put a mod chip in it.
You'll void the warranty.
That's called an anal fissure. You shit out of it. If you find two soft mounds next to it, those are hemmeroids.
It looks like someone put my asian neighbor's civic on blocks, took everything that wasn't riveted, then took apart the inside of an XBox, put all of that into a garbage compacter, then barfed into the ebay submission form.
Since I can't read the site, I'm going to have to assume that version of the events leading to this moment of Slashdot disgrace. It's entirely plausible.
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
gay means happy
Until he gets the bandwidth bill, he made 70$...
Shit sandwich.
I always like this one when it comes past.
Australia, 2, 1, 6, 4, 5, 3.
This guy turned something that deserves to go in the trash into something that is too big to fit in one !!!
Music is the language of the heart, the sound of the soul. -Joe Satriani
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
IMO, it looks worse than before he started. BTW, "God" needs to learn to use a spellchecker before he posts a page on the internet.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
The site seems fine to me. The mod itself was okay, though I'd rather slap on into this mini-ATX case I have. For the BOFH who wants to play games without them noticing an xbox. Maybe someone could put it in a rack mount...
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(=_=) Bani!
(")")
Working on whom?
The best planning can be done after the project completes.
This thing is even uglier than a "stock" xbox. A hobby of mine is painting miniatures and building scenes (i.e., historical battles and such). I wonder, is the true draw of modding a desire to improve upon the aesthetic properties of the original subject, or a desire to just carve shit up and say you did it. Because quite honestly, be it that rice rocket down the street with the spoiler that looks like a carry handle, or an xbox thrice the size and twice as ugly, the mod is more often than not worse than the original. Any experienced (and dare I ask talented?) modders care to enlighten?
did anyone else read that as
...big & bulky enough already?
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
the guy gets 5 fag points.
It's whopping huge!
Yay me!
Troll? Seriously, this thing would never fit in any home entertainment center.
Plus, the dude needs to stop drinking caffiene and using the dremmel, that lettering job look like it came from a crack-fiend.
I'm all for modding your x-box. But quality should always matter, no matter what the outcome.
we had the same thing ...we called it a Lite Brite.
"What does God need with an XBOX?"
1)Bigger box of plexiglass does not in fact make the Xbox any less of an unholy demonic powered eyesore.
2)Green lights do not make for less power drain.
3)A better word for "most ultimate" would be...ultimate
4)And one of my own...I was surprised at first that it wasn's /.-ed...and then I looked at the page and realized why. Any momentary frying of the server would have resulted from the multitudes of viewers getting to the page and simultaneously trying to back out. Like a drunk frat boy who has a sudden moment of sobriety and notices that the girl he thought was teh h077n355 really might not be all that attractive after all...
#define CLUE 0
"Behold! The most ultimate XBox in the whole world..."
If by ultimate you mean large and cumbersome, then yes: you have a valid arguement.
...industrial design should not be done by amateurs.
--R.J.
Electric-Escape.net
My XBox - naked and turned on.
Says it all, really.
Wow! That really is the ugliest thing I've ever seen! Thanks, Slashdot, for bringing this piece of crap to our attention. Now hundreds of 1337 g4m0rz who have modded their PCs with... well the same tubes and LEDs and plexy crap, really... can feel better about their 'Tandy 30-in-One' lookalike craptastic boxes! They have truly acheived 1960s electronic chic.
Now, if we could find something to make all those airfoiled, spoilered,prismatic,fiberglass Civic, Prelude and Supra mods look like more than some 6 year old's first attempt at a Revell Mustang kit. They need love too.
Yours truly,
The Bitch
- I am made of meat.
Funny +6
This guy is an asshole.
This being mine. :) Thought you might enjoy.
http://homepage.mac.com/tankgrrl/mousiefate.jpg
- I am made of meat.
What's with that X 2 on the top, if that's what it spells? Clearly Microsoft will be changing its plans for the next Xbox after seeing all there best prototypes bested by a mere amateur. These movie tie-ins are getting out of control. What, did Wolverine carve those letters in himself? They certainly weren't measured or stenciled in any way at all.
at the joy of tech!
I knew that was the Descent II logo font even before I read it in the description... uh, excuse me while I shell to DOS and try to find my old scratched D2 CD...
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that a prison 'manages freedom'
Casting is far more elegant...look at the base for the $3600.00 Sun 24.1" TFT-LCD monitor. It just takes talent.
As for anodizing...way out of date. Today, items like this are powder-coated.
Thanks for the link about bzboyz.com and Pricewatch!
A while back, I bought a couple motherboards from them - and I thought they had excellent prices. They took a little longer than I liked to ship my items, but I get that with most of the bargain-priced vendors on Pricewatch anyway. (I think they purposely take their time getting shipments out the door for anyone who only pays for "standard" shipping. I suspect they make a tidy profit on overcharging for priority/express type shipping....)
With a name like "bzboyz", though, I was afraid I was dealing with some wanna-be gangster computer dealers or something. It doesn't exactly inspire trust. After hearing about your situation with them, I'll skip them in the future. I've had good luck with a few other vendors like KRexx (in Illinois) and even a place in Ohio called Target-USA.
Well, for one thing, it doesn't have the highly sought-after Samsung DVD drive. So figure, the Xbox guts are probably worth less than $120 since you can get a refurb Xbox for about that price on eBay. The auction claims he spent about $25 on plexiglass...
:)
;)
Now when you consider the cost of the neons, the switches, the crap he used to put it together with and all the other misc. odds and ends you need when doing a mod like this, he probably didn't make MUCH of a profit. If you have a decent paying job, you probably make more per hour than he made doing this mod...
And from the queer perspective, his friend standing next to the Plex-box is kinda cute (and probably jailbait)... Too bad the bidding wasn't for him.
It's too bad I don't have a high enough credit limit to buy all this stuff, because I could easily 1-up this guy. Behold, the X-orbitant!
...all enclosed in a sleek, transparent acrylic case!
LG Electronics 40" Plasma TV
Two 12" Kicker Comp VR subwoofers
Eight super-bright CCFT lamps
Sony 760watt Xplod Car Amplifier
Xbox internals
So what if it would take two people to move it, it would be the double plus ultimate Xbox mod!
The purpose of it is to smell like fish.
Damn, sometimes I am really glad I am queer.
A couple of years ago when the X-Box was still in development and the IT-journalist whores were trying to figure out what was going on, I remember seeing an interview with some young gamedesigner at M$. The mag had him posed behind an object really shaped like an X with a glowing green logo in the middle. The feet and arms of the box were indeed cutout, unlike the currently shipping xbox. I remember thinking how cool is that case... could it be the M$ will be shipping something cool?
Well we all know now... the boring square black blob is so cool it inspired someone to stick it into a plexiglass babycoffin...
- It took western civilisation 2000 years to ensure popular literacy, and now we work with icon driven GUI's. Go figure.
Most Ultimate Shit, in fact...
Come ON people, why let SHIT like this get on Slashdot? Have you no sense?
"Information wants to be paid"
If it was any bigger, it's need some tubes and a punchcard maker. Seriously, this thing looks like a computer made by Ford Motor Company in the 60's. It could comfortably seat 4 if it had doors. I really had hoped that the next generation of coders/hackers would continue the tradition of being smart. Now I weep for the future.
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."- Steven Wright
*unimpressed*
The xbox looked like a Hongkong-Dildo-Maker hired a russian tankdesigner for the case.
I am surprised someone was able to get even lower...
"Life is short and in most cases it ends with death." Sir Sinclair
Does it run Linux?
Is there realy a point to a clear case mod? It's not like it contains any moving parts. Now when I make something clear it's so people can see what is going on with the bits to make it work, not just to show off chunks of nonmoving semi-conductor.
--- As to make my comment seem, by comparison, more intelegent... doodie doodie doodie poop poop poop!
Look in the second picture. What game is in the sega genesis? I think that says it all.
He who fights with Monkeys must take it upon himself not to become a Monkey.
Looking at the article, 'dark deep dungeon' is probably a good description of where he lives already...
He managed to make the biggest, bulkiest and ugliest games console on the planet even bigger, bulkier and uglier.
I guess thats why he's a god of modding.
The X-Box jsed to be called the X-barn because of this size. Can I call this the Plex-barn? Perhaps I can go one better and see if I can "case mod" my PS2 into my Xaser III case.
"I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense" J Watson, Sci Am 288:(4)51
that's going to void his warranty for sure.
...I'd rather see someone case-modding XBox so that it looked like one of the original demo machines - a glowing titanium upright X-shaped thing, or something. That might have looked a bit more surprising.
BzBoyz is definitely a dodgy operation. Avoid them.
I've have been buying from Krex since the mid 90s when they still took most orders by phone. I've never had a problem with them. They are a very good vendor.
load "windows7"
i certainly would have made it rackmountable.
i mean, if youre gonna take something big and ugly and make it bigger and uglier, you could at least add some level of practicality to it...
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Great, he modded his XBOX to look like an ugly version of an XBox devkit.
Tolkien is a he !!
As for me, the hold on my CC funds has STILL not been released... They decided to simply let it lapse rather than cancel it.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I figure those reading may have an xbox so might be interested in tipware.
-Libertarian secular transhumanist
If IBM had made a gaming console in the 80's this is what it would look like.... well, maybe not this bad.
Here. Apparently only a fifth choose to pay the smallest amount.
-Libertarian secular transhumanist
Why in a *supposedly* "Techo-savvy" crowd like Slashdot does no one ever point out to these case-modding zealouts that 99% of the case mods out there screw up the ability of the case to keep unwanted stray RF created by the device(s) inside the box *in* the box? Or for that matter from outside RF from entering it?
....... .... that someone would point out that most case mods using plexiglass turn your average high-speed processor and motherboard into a giant interference creation device for ones other properly-engineered RF toys.
You'd think with all the WiFi, Bluetooth, wireless weather stations, cordless phones that cost more than your 1983 AT&T/Bell System long-distance bill, and other wireless cheesy goodness this supposedly technologically advanced crowd would use
Show us a nice big hunk of metal with a huge ground strap type of case-modding goodness for an X-Box that would allow you to see virtually nothing on a good quality spectrum analyzer sitting right next to it while you're playing the heaviest CPU hitting game you can muster -- and the real geeks will be impressed.
Pretty LED's and blinky lights are for the Marketing department, kids.
+++OK ATH
I'm just amaze to see that SEGA GENSIS!!! WHoA!!!
That's one of the ugliest hacks I've ever seen. /.
In addition it's probably putting out as much RF garbage as visual garbage. One need go no further than the crappy Dremel routing job on the logo. Ewwwwwww! Thanks for absolutely wasting my time - the first item to ever do so on