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Orac^3 -- Not Your Everyday Casemod
jmke writes "G-nome has finished his amazing Orac case mod, which looks absolutely stunning." An excerpt from the site: "Ever since I saw the first series of Blakes 7 I have wanted my own Orac. For those that don't know, Blakes 7 was a late 70s/early 80s British Science Fiction series and Orac was this intellectually snobbish, difficult and incredibly brilliant computer, hand built by an eccentric scientist. The special effects were straight out of 60's Star Trek and a lot of the props were converted from (or later converted to) props from other classic BBC series such as Doctor Who and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (where the Bambleweeny 57 sub-meson brain looks like it was made by the same bloke!)."
Go look!!!!
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I could.
Just don't let Servalan get her hands on the key : )
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What are you doing spending money to have a computer, or be online? If it's not your computer, why are you paying taxes instead of moving to africa and sharing your money with the poor?
Why, why!? Ohhh the humanity!
Presently here, but not there.
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Yes! I listen to NYC Speedcore and do math at 3AM. I suggest you try it too.
I've heard that he actually runs his computer off of African slave labor. That's right, he feeds them, clothes them, and expects them each to put in their 12 hours on the treadmill! Yah! Get along there!
don't put this machine near your kids or anything - they might get assimilated...
Like millions of others, I'm always mucking around in my PC. For the past 15 years, all of the various incarnations of my main desktop have spent most of their time with the cover off. And I've yet to have a single cell phone problem, cordless phone problem, pager problem, AM radio problem, FM radio problem, shortwave radio problem, CB radio problem, 802.11b, g or a problem, TV reception problem, or flux capacitor problem. Best of all, chicks dig it! And who can blame them? I'm clearly the kind of guy who likes to live life on the edge.
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Lesson for other meta-suckers: Don't believe the hype!
It doesn't need any shielding: he used transparent aluminum.
Because we have a hard time finding round motherboards...
Seriously, it's not as if you could make it any shorter or much narrower, so the only option is bigger. Although good looks are nice, so is saving space.
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- The article submitters don't RTFA.
- The editors don't RTFA.
- The posters don't RTFA.
- The moderators don't RTFA.
As far as I can tell, nobody visits these web sites. So what exactly is the slashdot effect?How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Indeed. And why is it called Orac when it doesn't actually look anything like Orac?
It isn't a Dr. Who homage. The problem is that he only used a half-size tower case. If he had gone with a full-tower, he would not have had to leave off the "le" on the end. At least he used something approximating the corporate font on the resevoir so you still kind of get an impression of what he was aiming for.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Do not, however, believe the idiots who tell you this is a fine way to make river water potable when camping.
It had rained during the night, so we were having trouble getting the campfire started to boil a pot of water. My buddy, who was an Army Ranger for chrissakes, says, "No problem!" He pulls out this tiny bottle with an eyedropper, and plops one drop of bleach into the pot. No more buggies. Nice and clean. Tasted nasty, but it was safe.
Holy christ. Somebody needed to tell that to our digestive systems. About fifteen minutes later, somebody down there pulled the Big Red Switch and WHOOOM. More came out than ever went in, and it emerged with a force sufficient to lift me about a foot right up into the air. I expected to look down and see a pile of clean, white bones lying there. A couple of ribs, my left ulna, two vertibrae, and, right in the middle, my pelvis.
I was expelling so fast my butt actually got hot from the friction.
I've had dissentary and I've drunk bleach-water. I'll take the amoebas any day.
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Whatever, buddy. Seriously. Come to think of it, I'd expect to hear a mac fanboy say that :)
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This idiot should take his next pay packet and sponsor a child in Africa or something.
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