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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. Photos are Archived Here by BiggestPOS · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just in case the site goes down..... http://biggestpos.com/pics/gallery/borgcase/

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    1. Re:Photos are Archived Here by FrostedWheat · · Score: 5, Informative

      Oh why not... here's another mirror of just the main picture. I've reduced the JPEG quality a bit aswell.

    2. Re:Photos are Archived Here by jpkunst · · Score: 5, Informative

      That's Dutch.

      At the moment our database is undergoing maintainance. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

      JP

  2. Re:Just irresponsible... by beegle · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem is that in America, we have bullshit laws like the DMCA that make the status of proxies less certain. If you run a proxy and someone downloads illegal material from the web, are you liable for damages? It's an uncertain enough question that nobody wants to set themselves up to be the legal test case.

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  3. Re:Note to self... by OrenWolf · · Score: 5, Informative
    I host both Cory Doctorow's personal webpages, as well as BoingBoing.net. Suffice it to say both BoingBoing and Cory get Slashdotted on a regular basis, especially of late with his most recent book release.

    The machine is a 900Mhz Duron with 512MB RAM Running RHL. Nothing fancy, in fact most people have better desktops now.

    The key seems to be a carefully configured Apache using in-memory caching where possible, generous "Expires" headers for caches, long keepalives, and having the server thrash as little as possible starting and stopping children. Even under the most extreme load the box tends to be responsive, and has impressed the hell out of me for doing so.

    With cory moving from SSI-based pages to the DB-driven MT, it will be interesting to see exactly what happens to performance as his next /.-ing :)

  4. Link by lposeidon · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/ 879641 this site has some pics of the case. enjoy

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