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Borg Cube Case

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that-takes-dedication dept.

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"

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  1. Residence is futile by va3atc · · Score: 5, Funny

    your net connection will be assimilated at 933Mhz!

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    1. Re:Residence is futile by Keebler71 · · Score: 5, Funny

      It is a good thing Picard didn't know how vulnerable the Borg are to a good slashdotting or they wouldn't have been able to sustain so many good Borg episodes...

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  2. Whoah! by SillySnake · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Someone has to say it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    All your cliches are belong to us... ;)

  4. Re:Photos are Archived Here by BiggestPOS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stories like this are the reason I'm a subscriber...... :)

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  5. Re:Just irresponsible... by gregarican · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are we just another form of a "flash mob?" I guess "slash mob" sounds close enough...

  6. Re:Photos are Archived Here by DjMd · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. I wish I knew by enrico_suave · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    e.

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    1. Re:I wish I knew by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is that a mobo in your pocket, or a are you just glad to see me?

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  8. You know... by Stingr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Captain Picard defeated the Borg the hard way. I mean all he had to do was pull the plug!

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  9. You will be assimilated! by BigZaphod · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  10. You will by va3atc · · Score: 5, Funny

    prepare your p0rn collection for assimilation.

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  11. Re:Photos are Archived Here by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Articles of irrellivent. You will be subscribed...

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  12. Holy smokes, that rocks by dacarr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now imagine a beowulf cluster of those.

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  13. Only obvious.... by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's pretty obvious that this borg mod case system should run only Windows as the OS.

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  14. We are the Borg! by UncleBiggims · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  15. Re:ports? by skink1100 · · Score: 5, Funny

    > 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.

    S

  16. Re:Photos are Archived Here by Hard_Code · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hurdeefleurdee! Borg! Borg! Borg!

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  17. Re:Just irresponsible... by TeaEarlGreyHot · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  18. Sweat side? by slashd'oh · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Sweat side"? That doesn't sound too pleasant!

  19. Wonder how long... by NickABusey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder how long it takes to find the "On" button?

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  20. Server is down? by psoriac · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, who reversed the phase polarity of the tachyon field on the main deflector dish and disabled the cube?

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  21. Slash (and burn) dot! by mariox19 · · Score: 5, 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!

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  22. Re:in 250 hours you could have... by Xeth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps, but would any of those things get you on /.?

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  23. Again, it cannot be helped... by Eberlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  24. Nothing but Love... by chollowayss · · Score: 5, Funny

    That might be impressive, but this is much more useful.

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