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Borg Cube Case
Steelduck writes "A person nick-named Xor'Arch at the CaseJunkies forums has made an uber-cool case mod. A Borg cube based on a Via EPIA-M platform. The project took them 9 months, in which they spent 250 hours of their spare time. In total, they used about 60 meters of steel wire, and 1,5 m2 cardboard.The Borg Cube is presented at Casejunkies website.
http://www.casejunkies.com/index.php?upn=010001&hl _id=1873"
your net connection will be assimilated at 933Mhz!
Candle burns its brightest in the dark
All your case are belong to us... ;)
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60 meters of wire!? That's insane! It's gotta weigh a ton.. At least enough to assimilate someone if you hit them over the head with it.
Wow, it's like you were expecting it to be slashdotted in 5 minutes. Anyways, this is a great case. Those case modders need to find girlfriends...
Stories like this are the reason I'm a subscriber...... :)
What, me worry?
Are we just another form of a "flash mob?" I guess "slash mob" sounds close enough...
That is definately a high-ranking geek item. Can't say I've ever heard of it before, looks like they've done a good job of it.
::starts design plans::
Now only if I could hook up a Transwarp conduit for an Internet connection....
# fuser -v
#
Soon, they will assimilate every computer that loads the slashdot index or RDF and infect them with nanosoft windows so they can cooperate to rule the universe.
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Slashdoted, or as the Borg like to say...
" Op het moment wordt er aan onze database onderhoud gepleegd! Onze excuses voor het ongemak."
Wow, borg speak really does sound swedish!!
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Should I be worried?
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
I wish I knew it was mini-itx day at slashdot today... I would have warn my "Epia VIA motherboard users do it in smaller places" button.
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I wish I had 250 hours to spend making the coolest Star Trek nerd case in the world. I would go on a trip somewhere nice or read a friggen book.
- Kill Yourself, spare us all! -
Captain Picard defeated the Borg the hard way. I mean all he had to do was pull the plug!
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
So what's the maximum warp on this sucker? Does it fly around the room and assimilate other systems that are nearby? I'd be a little skittish about leaving it plugged into the network...
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prepare your p0rn collection for assimilation.
Candle burns its brightest in the dark
Articles of irrellivent. You will be subscribed...
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Now imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
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It's pretty obvious that this borg mod case system should run only Windows as the OS.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
You don't need those ancient input devices when you have been assimilated!
We Are The Borg. Lower your firewall and surrender your data. We will add your bios and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us... under the GPL of course.
Resistance is futile.
Are you Corn Fed?
> uhm.. where's the keyboard/video/etc ports located on? it doesn't show in any of the pics.
It uses a new wireless technology: Borgtooth.
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Hurdeefleurdee! Borg! Borg! Borg!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Can you get this with the optional Temporal Vortex technology? You know, for restoring your system when you do an accidental rm -rf *?
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." Adolf Hitler
You sound just like Paul from American Chopper every time that kid who paints for them comes in with a tank he just completed.
Slashdot to Borg Cube Case Server:
We have anaylzed your bandwidth and computing capabilities as being unable to withstand our attack. We will add your website to our growing list of sites that have been slashdotted. Resistence is futile.
I'd be worried if someone made a Dawsons Creek Trapper Keeper mod :-)
Here's a link for you non South Park people.
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
"Sweat side"? That doesn't sound too pleasant!
All he had to do is post a story on slashdot about it. Apparently, even a Borg cube cannot survive a good slashdotting!
I wonder how long it takes to find the "On" button?
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DOH! Sweet side, SWEET side!
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Ok, who reversed the phase polarity of the tachyon field on the main deflector dish and disabled the cube?
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
Great! We've only just gotten through bringing the iPod story's server to its knees, and now we've trashed this site as well.
I just knew when I read the word, "Borg," that this would be the case. We geeks are too predictable.
All we need now is a "Natalie Portman enrolls in the CS department at Harvard" story, and the whole east coast will go black once again!
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
Don't put anything cool on the internet unless the old pipes are wide enough to handle a few thousand curious onlookers (/. effect)
/. effect -- and say keep bringin it boys.
Note to others: Upgrade the pipes and hardware. If you are paying $5.99 a year to your provider or hosting your cool stuff on your cable modem.
Anybody have any idea what the basic "sweet spot" is to hardware/softwatre/bandwidth needs in order to laugh back at the
Also -- I know this is off-subject, however since I can't seem to get to the actual content, I figured it was no big deal to venture off the path.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
Which will be a higher cost: the case itself, or the bandwidth necessary to withstand the slashdotting?
> I don't think I'd want one in my house
;)
Leave. You do not belong here.
Perhaps, but would any of those things get you on /.?
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
With sincere apologies --
1) Web Server of Borg, prepare to be assimilated
2) Borg Cube? After a slashdotting, it's a Bork Cube
3) Hmmm, might as well be a gamecube now.
4) If a Borg Cube server runs WebSphere, what is the volume of the resulting geometry?
5) Ice Cube and Dre are suing for copyright infringements.
6) If it runs linux, will the admin be known as Cube Root?
"""We are borg, you will be assimilated, resistance i....."""
at Wolf 359 they lost many ships, when in reality all the had to do is utilize the slashdot factor
with Borg's lines. "We are Borgs. We will assimilate you. Resistance is futile." as Windows' startup wave file. :)
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That might be impressive, but this is much more useful.
"The next generation of interesting software will be made on a Macintosh, not an IBM PC." -Bill Gates
It's dead Jim!
they used about 60 meters of steel wire
The last thing I'd call that case is 'wireless'!
There are 10 kinds of people; those who know ternary, those who don't, and those now hunting for a dictionary.
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
It runs Windows, of course.
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You can see the size of a Borg cube here. About half way down the page.
WARNINGS:
Slight spoilers for various sci-fi and skiffy series.
Bandwidth intensive graphics.
High geek level.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
I've seen that... the scene you mention is right before the Lumberjack Sized Dad comes in and pops another vein in his forehead over the lastest father/son conflict, right??? I hear he wraps a muffler around his sons head in the season finale.
It's not as impressive to land a sphere on a planet and roll off as to land a cube with a nice thud, see:
Borg hive:
We are the borg, prepare to be assimi - whu?
Hey, somebody stop the sphere from rolling away!
As I was saying: prepare to be assimi - hey?
46 of 100! Stop the sphere from rolling.
46 of 100:
[unintelligible]
Borg hive:
No, we dont care. Get someone else to stand on the other side of the sphere!
And so on.
Not as impressive.