Design-Your-Own Computer Case Kits

lord black writes "I was walking the aisles of the local Fry's and discovered a nifty computer-case-erector-set-thingy. Made by Aero Cool, the Lubic kit is basically a bunch of aluminum rails, acrylic panels (for mounting hardware to), and misc. screws to connect it all, for constructing a unique computer case. They have a gallery of example cases. BTW, Aero Cool also makes neat CPU coolers."

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[Anonymous Coward]

fp you fucking nazis!

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[Anonymous Coward]

Saving the first for best.

Japanese/Chinese Slashdotting?

[Anonymous Coward]

It can't be!

A Note to Our Canadian Friends

[Anonymous Coward]

Please keep your filthy diseased animals north of the border where they belong, wallowing in a fetid stew of deadly prions and dreary socialism. Thank you.

Re:A Note to Our Canadian Friends

[Anonymous Coward]

Excuse me, it was you Americans who fed the thing cow brains to begin with!

Re:Do people do this?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm still amazed at the pervasiveness of chopsticks in Asia, despite their invention by Chinese immigrants in U.S. mining communities in the 1800s as a way of promoting their unique (and tasty) cuisine.

I don't know where you get this information, but perhaps you're trying to start a new urban legend. A search for "chopsticks" in Google indicates that chopsticks have been around for several thousand years. And that's only the first link.

Chopsticks are 5,000 years old!

[Anonymous Coward]

On the other hand, I'm still amazed at the pervasiveness of chopsticks in Asia, despite their invention by Chinese immigrants in U.S. mining communities in the 1800s as a way of promoting their unique (and tasty) cuisine.

Am I missing a subtle joke here? Google and The California Academy of Sciences assure me that chopsticks have been in use for over 5,000 years.


Chopsticks were developed about 5,000 years ago in China. ...

The pieces of food were small enough that they negated the need for knives at the dinner table, and chopsticks became staple utensils. It is also thought that Confucius, a vegetarian, advised people not to use knives at the table because knives would remind them of the slaughterhouse.

Re:Do people do this?

[Quirk]

" how Michaelangelo was unable to sell any of his great works until centuries after his death,

OK I'll bite how did Michaelangelo sell his great works centuries after his death? Is it some sort of payoff from God for the work on the chapel?

Oh really?

[Anonymous Coward]

They have a gallery of example cases.

Not anymore. ;)

Re:Do people do this?

[Anonymous Coward]

YHBT. YHL.

Now see, this is a LITTLE off topic

[blitzoid]

This is all well and good, but I have a bit of an off topic question... I'm looking for a very, very small case. Something that would fit a regular sized hard drive, a mini-ITX via board, a slim PSU, and that's it. No CD-rom or anything, just enough to fit that stuff. The front should be single, a power light, an HDD light, a reset and power button, and about 4 USB ports in a 2x2 or 1x4 shape. I could cut the USB ports myself if need be. Why do I want it? Well, basically I want to make my own console. The USB ports are for game controllers, and I can plug an external CDROM in if I need to do stuff that needs a CD. Most of the time it would be running MAME or something similar. Since it's a mini-ITX board, it'll have TV-out and all sorts of nifty features. Minimum wires out the back are a big plus... hopefully all I'll need in the end are a power cord, and the A/V cables (I'll get some wireless ethernet action going on, and if need be I'll cut the metal tab on the card to make it fit. I apologize for going off topic, but does anyone have any suggestions? I suppose I could build it myself, but I have *no* clue where to start when working with metal.

Re:Do people do this?

[Anonymous Coward]

clap. clap. clap.

Re:This is a test post for a future troll.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hrmmmm....needs some work.

Look at the astroturf fly!

[Anonymous Coward]

You managed to get an ad for both Fry's and Aero Cool on the front page.
Does this guy win some kind of prize for duping Timothy?

Re:What's a good car?

[jlanthripp]

Good cars (and trucks):

• Pre-1972 General Motors passenger cars, especially the A-body B-O-P's (Buick Skylark/GS/GSX, Oldsmobile F-85/Cutlass/4-4-2, Pontiac Lemans/GTO)
• 1976-1984 Honda Civic (manual transmission only)
• 1964-1967 Chevrolet pickup trucks
• 1992-1996 Ford full-size pickup truck
• 1988-2004 Honda Prelude (manual transmission only)
• 1991-1995 Nissan Sentra
• 1983-1986 General Motors J-body cars (Cavalier, Sunbird, J2000, etc. - manual transmission only)
• All pre-1971 Chrysler vehicles equipped with 426 Hemi engines and 727 Torqueflite or manual transmission
• 1976-1979 Oldsmobile Delta 88 and 98 Regency
• Almost all Toyotas and Hondas made after 1988, with few exceptions

Extraordinarily bad cars:

• 1973-1986 General Motors passenger cars (except 1983-1986 J-body cars with manual transmission)
• All Isuzus, Mazdas and Mitsubishis I've come into contact with
• All pre-1978 Toyota passenger cars with automatic transmissions
• All Geo Metros
• All Chrysler vehicles with 3.0L V-6 engines (those engines are made by Mitsubishi - apparently a cheesecake in Sally Struthers' fridge has a longer lifespan than those engines)
• Pretty much all General Motors and Ford front-wheel-drive passenger cars with automatic transmissions (though I hear the US carmakers have finally learned how to make FWD cars with automatics in the last few years)
• Chevrolet S-10 (includes the Blazers and pickup trucks, as well as the GMC S-15 series)
• Pre-1997 Ford Ranger pickups and midsized SUV's (Bronpco II, Explorer)

All the vehicles in those lists that I haven't personally owned are listed based on ratings at auto-related websites and the experiences of people I've known - in each case the anecdotal evidence was in line with the automotive website review.

I currently own 2 vehicles:

• 1991 Nissan Sentra S Coupe, 1.6L I-4 engine, automatic transmission, air conditioning, factory AM/FM/Cassette stereo, rear windshield defroster. 253,000 miles on original engine and transmission, still drives quite well, uses about 1 quart of oil between changes. All the buttons still work, with one exception: the vent fan operates at all settings except the highest.
• 1996 Ford F-150 Longbed Standard Cab, 4.9L I-6 engine, automatic with overdrive, cruise control, air conditioning, ABS, dual fuel tanks, towing/camper package, aftermarket Sony AM/FM/CD stereo with Rockford Fosgate door speakers. 189,000 miles on original engine and transmission, still runs/drives like new, uses about 1/2 quart of oil between changes. All the buttons still work. Last week I hauled 2480 pounds (about 1-1/4 tons) of gravel home from the quarry, on steep hills and very twisty roads. 2480 pounds of gravel made the truck weigh about 1400 pounds more than its GVWR, but it drove/accelerated/pulled hills/stopped just fine, though I did drive cautiously on the way home.

I've also owned, in the past:

• 1966 Oldsmobile F-85 Deluxe 2-door hardtop (Almost no one knows WTF an F-85 is - basically, in 1966, the Olds "Cutlass" was an F-85 with the Cutlass trim package). My first car, outran Mustang GT's and Camaro Z-28's from 0-50, survived years of abuse at the hands of a teenage driver, and the odometer read almost 300,000 miles when an idiot in a Saab ran a stop sign at 60-65mph and totalled my Olds for me.
• 1978 Chevrolet Camaro. Total crap. Slurped fuel like a dragster, and its performance left me wondering if I should get out and push. I spent more time working on it than driving it.
• 1984 Chevrolet Cavalier. Great little car - cheap to buy, cheap to maintain, cheap on gas, ran like a top till I sold it.
• 1982 Buick Regal. Another crapmobile. Died of oil pump failure at 132,000 miles.
• 1989 Geo Metro (hey, I was delivering pizzas at the time!). Burned valve at 112,000 miles, repair estimate was more than the car's value.
• 1988 Honda Prelude. Contender f