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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"
Just in case the site goes down..... http://biggestpos.com/pics/gallery/borgcase/
What, me worry?
your net connection will be assimilated at 933Mhz!
Candle burns its brightest in the dark
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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.
Normally, I don't case squat for these case mods, nor do I get too excited about Star Trek, but this time I've gotta hand it to them... that is a work of art!
Not that anyone cares, though.
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
uhm.. where's the keyboard/video/etc ports located on? it doesn't show in any of the pics.
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
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Should I be worried?
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
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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
Now imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
This sig no verb.
- flossed your teeth 3,000 times. ...but see Legolas kill the Olephant only 74.6 times
- Seen 166 movies (at 90 minutes each)
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- driven from NY,NY to LA 5 times
- listened to 1/35064 of "Longplayer"
- watched 500 episodes of the simpsons, ~750 if you skipped the commercials.
- earned $1287.50 flipping burgers for minimum wage
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.
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?
"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!
Hey, why not put all the wire to work for your heat disipation? It may actually decrease your cpu temp.
I wonder how long it takes to find the "On" button?
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Ok, who reversed the phase polarity of the tachyon field on the main deflector dish and disabled the cube?
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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.
The case looks really sweet..
But I don't understand spending all that time and attention to a really cool case, just to put a gutless MiniITX board in it..
I mean, for the space, you could easily put even a lower-end athlon or P4, 2 ghz or so.. They don't get unreasonably hot, and are easy enough to cool..
I just picture showing off my really cool case, and then my audience looking at the screen and seeing the latest Star Trek game at 640x480 running at about 2 fps..
It's kind of like spending a year making a totally sweet hot rod chassis, then sticking the engine from a pontiac firefly in it.
I just dont get it.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
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?
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
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 :)
Oh, but we're all too cultured and intelligent to watch TV, right? My ass. There's too much pop culture knowledge represented here for me to believe that.
Okay, a few of us really don't watch TV. Okay, but 250 hours / 9 months is still less than an hour per day. How many of us can say we wasted less than an hour per day in this and other stupid forums? Is slashdot really more useful than doing creative projects?
I was on the receiving end of the "doesn't have a life" comments when my LEGO project was slashdotted. The most flippant of the comments came from those with 2900 posts showing in their user profiles on various forums. Wanna know what that looks like outside the cyberdork universe?
Amy
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.
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http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/ 879641
this site has some pics of the case.
enjoy
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