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PC In An XP Box
wolrahnaes writes "There is an article up on mini-itx.com explaining how to fit a fully functional PC based on a VIA M10000 EPIA board in to a Windows XP box.
The author even explains how he then fit it in to a Red Hat box and used a sensor to tell the bootloader which OS to run based on which box it is in."
...that one of the most expensive component of the project is the box itself.
Now I just have to find an OS/2 box...
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A Windows XP box worth the retail price!
Don't believe anything I say. I crash test crack pipes for a living.
Microsoft will definitely get into trouble when they start bundling computers with purchases of Windows.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. --Sun-Tzu
"Windows XP Box" By Andy France - Posted on 1 December 2003
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Too bad most Slashdotters who use XP won't actually HAVE an XP box...
So, Bob, what did you do this weekend?
Oh, you know, barbeque with the friends, fucked the wife, usual stuff. You?
The usual, drank a bunch of jolt, wacked off in the basement to anime and wrote an article about a useless PC mod.
Yawn, that's nothing, wake me up when they manage to get a working PC with Windows in it.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
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still no cure for cancer.
seriously, wouldn't time be better spent on other, more worthwhile projects than building a computer in a box?
CB
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TO MUCH time on there hands...
You must be very busy, what with the nine word post that has three mistakes in it.
little did you know that that is, in fact, a giant cat of death. they just pu a fake nanode case around a minivan.
Don't worry - its just stigmata. Pass me a napkin and don't you dare tell my mother.
IAALS.
Use a box to build yourself a new box so you can run Box inside of Bochs on your box!
You get Lindows.
What's next? Putting it in a carboard cut out of britney spears?
I guess the sad thing here is that this sounds really cool to me.
m-
You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
If you put in a box labeled "Duke Nukem Forever" it travels to the distant future and surprises some eloi and morlocks.
"Is it just me, or do these guys have way too much time on their hands? I mean... what in the world do they hope to accomplish besides a (+5, HOLYSHIT) moderation?"
Is it just me, or do these guys have way too much time on their hands? I mean.. what in the world do they hope to accomplish besidse a (+5, Whoopdedoo_You_Pointed_Out_It_Isn't_A_BFD) moderation?
"Derp de derp."
Duh. That's what I get for ./ing a work. I need to do it when I'm fully awake.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
...is that computers are getting small enough for that goatse guy to do his own personal "case mod" and it's only a matter of time before we have the link.
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From page 4 of the article: The problem now was that I ran the risk of accidentally booting Linux from the "Windows XP Box" or even worse, booting Windows from the "Linux Box". That would not be good. It needed to be fool proof.
He should have it set up so that it boots XP when the guts are in the Linux box, and boots Linux when it's in the XP box. That way he can wave his hand at the computer and say "That's my XP box that runs Linux", or "That's XP running in my Linux box" and confuse any local annoying computer know-it-alls (that don't).
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
> Take a look at this picture and the cat.
I was most disappointed to follow the link and discover that this guy hadn't actually managed to cram a working PC into a cat.
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