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wiggles writes "Here's a link to what is perhaps the most delicious computer ever. What else are geeks doing differently this Christmas?"
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... the motherboard, or my culinary restraint.
He bakes the case, we bake the server.
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yummy, though I would fear my cats would lick my computer case away.
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Although, at look what it's running. Only good for eating and shitting out.
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You can always tell when a site is being /.ed on dialup. . .
What will happen when we /. them? Will their computer just fall apart?
It's still on the bread board.
This would seem to suggest it may be possible to build the ENTIRE computer (motherboard, chips and all) out of confectionary.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
A mouse made out of cheese.
What else are geeks doing this Christmas?
Enjoying my piece of coal, you insensitive clod.
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This is more delicious
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Looks like their server is made out of gingerbread.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
But does it run Linux?
I think I'm getting the blue frosting of death.
Step 1: make computer out of gingerbread
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
But is it kosher?
I'd hit it!
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just to let u know mini-itx.com has an article about a realy computer covered in gingerbread http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/gingerbreadvillag e/
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Only if it then runs for 8 days on 1 days worth of power.
Does it Run Linux? And will they making a beowulf cluster of Gingerbread CPUs out of YOU! in Soviet Russia, or do only old people do that in Korea, you insensitive CLOD!
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...but the bandwidth is maxed out. Be patient and it will load.
/.ing. All credit goes to my husband, the wizard admin.
Our 8 megabit DSL nearly melted down, but the kindness of (mirroring) strangers has helped out quite a bit.
I'm chuffed that the little server we run is surviving a
Last year, IMB created Thinkpad 20M, special model celebrating its twenty million shipments of Thinkpads. Its development concept is, in contrast to normal Thinkpad, to make bulky, thick Thinkpad with half-day warranty. It's made of nearly 100% natural materials and tastes good.
Note: linked article is written in Japanese.
But I reckon the motherboard is a bit sparse on features. I mean, come on, no SATA RAID :(
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I thought this story would be sweet, but it is so overdone.
I've heard of brownouts, but this is ridiculous!
So if I run Firefox and refuse cookies, does my computer explode?
I don't know if I have a virus, or food poisoning.
I'm partial to the Mary Ann mod.
I'd like a new video card, but I don't have enough bread for that.
Thank you, thank you - I'll be here all week. Or until the booze runs out.
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Unbelievable.
-- Don't believe everything you read, hear or think
Build it into a menorah?
Why not, hey why not make a beowulf cluster out of it, 9 stands for 9 computers. Make them out of P4s and you won't even need to light it, just let the CPUs spread the glow of the warmth. Perfect gift for the holidays for our brothers of the jewish faith.
For those who don't know what one is check check this out.
Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas and for those who happen to be on the road this year, remember that it only takes one lose nut in a car to crash it... so keep you head screwed on straight! {grumble grumble tourists not knowing road rules grumble grumble}
Karma? Hey I just call it as I see it.
How long before someone makes a computer out of Soylent Green ?
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You mean open sauce?
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First, crystals are excellent oscillators. If you apply a small enough metal oxide to them, you can also make semiconductors. Sugar makes excellent crystals. I've not tried, but I can't see any obvious reason why you couldn't make a sugar-based transistor.
Actually, I don't think crystal oscillators are in the critical path of making computers from candy. They offer a high resonant frequency and good enough stability, but you could as well run a PC from an LC-oscillator. Yes, one cycle may be longer than another, but that's not critical.
You have no obvious reason why you couldn't make a sugar-based transistor? Well transistors are made from semiconducting material. I am no materials specialist, but I highly doublt sugar is a semiconductor. And even if a small FET-operation would be detectable by applying a gate, I doubt it would be capable of amplification - the first requirement for making your crystal oscillator run.
Moreover, because of the low conductivity I attribute to confectionary, you cannot even make the wiring. Let alone complex circuits. A nice idea, but no-go, as far as I know.
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Now I just need some del.icio.us bookmarks to go with that!
"What else are geeks doing differently this Christmas?"
i'm planning on bathing.. i thought it'd be something neat to try around the holidays... what the heck, you know?
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
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