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Lean Mean Grilling PC Mod
An anonymous reader writes that "This bloke has turned a George Foreman Grill into a webserver using what looks like a mini-itx pc. This really does bring a new meaning to the Lean Mean FAT grilling machine!" This is actually a pretty clean looking design. Very well done.
Obligatory joke about frying one's motherboard.
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Very nice how he crammed all that hardware inside there, though.
Oops, now it's /.ed. I bet you can grill on it now!
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
... just overheated.
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How many punches can it take before it decides to stop being a webserver, and starts selling hokie cookware to overweight meat addicts?
But I hear web pages server this way contain less fat, but the grill marks sometimes obscure the text.
Are you sure he turned it into a webserver? And not like... nothing?
I thought it was going to say that he somehow mated his graphics/CPU chips to the grilling plate of a Foreman and used the heat to grill things.
Far cooler IMO.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Is the site hosted on the grill???
Home of the midwest loser - www.say-10.net
...Said the Slashdot member who posted this Ask Slashdot story at one time. Seriously, quite an interesting project he has there.
My other computer is a Jacquard loom.
> Technically it's lost the grilling-functionality, but with a bit of tin foil on top of the heatsink and a fork-bomb, I reckon I could probably still fry an egg with it.
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> And yes, this webserver is hosted on the grill.
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> January 11th 2005 17:28:29
> Up 6 day(s), 8 hour(s) 14 min(s)
Two points come to mind:
1: Optimistic, isn't he?
2: At least he'll get his chance to fry that egg.
Clearly it's hosted on the grill. Good thing that's built to take some serious heat - /.'ed with 0 comments - smokin'!
Technically it's lost the grilling-functionality, but with a bit of tin foil on top of the heatsink and a fork-bomb, I reckon I could probably still fry an egg with it.
An egg? With how busy it is now he could probably fry a whole cow.
... knocked the FAT outta his server!
Kenny P.
Visualize Whirled P.'s
Since it seems that the grill is hosting the website linked from the article (or at least thats what he claims), it looks like this guys steak is going to be well done by the time the /.ing is over.
SIGFAULT
About your webserver... Stick a fork in it. It's done.
Since I can't see the page, I'm wondering if he just throws a steak over the thing to get rid of the heat.
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
Ah yes, it's the delicious aroma of a well-done web server.
If you could fit a 6th Century Scandinavian warrior inside that thing, would that make it a Beowulf server?
No mod points, no meta-moderating/Firehose/all the other free work Slashdot wants me to do.
...and the webserver is toast!
People that believe in their opinions don't post AC.
google cache http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:HKBuO90uhxwJ:w ww.igrill.co.uk/+&hl=en
i wonder what errors hes getting right now...
Forman SysAdmin wakes up. Makes coffee. Finds his webserver is frying itself.
If i was him id try doing some bacon on it. :D~
whether to install a Foreman-huckstered product on a kitchen countertop or a tailpipe. Now I have to add network ports...
*whup* "Get along, little electrons. Heeyah!"
He can cook all his food with the intense heat of his Intel CPU!
har har har
...That if an open space is large enough for a mini-atx or btx case, somebody is going to mod it to hold one. So this isn't anything new, it's just someone wanting attention because they can cram some hardware in a space.
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/eb39a4f75d9Fae2ad 2275d4854fb1b48/index.html Mirror w/ a picture of it...
I don't know, please tell me, is there any reasonable justification for posting direct links to a joe sixpack's web server (be it a frying pan, a flying saucer, a lawn mower or else) ?
Slashdot-ing my a$$, let's call this Slashdot/DoS.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Using the iGrill, I went from FAT32 to FAT16. My clusters have never been smaller!
"... with it's patented designed, the fat drains directly into my mouth.", George Foremans Head -- TMK
...and then eat his ass?!?
Sicko!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
We know that you can put ITX mobos and embedded hardware a fly, to a nintendo or anything else you have laying around the house.
What is interesting about this, maybe I missed the significance.
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Worrking google mirror with pics!
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Actually it was a barbecue. Found the server in a skip. Threw out the motherboard. Took the (full height!) hard disk drive out. Filled with charcoal and lit up.
Not a lot else I could do with it. I supose an AT case could still have been useful in 1999, but a 386 was a little outdated even for a desktop machine.
Google Cache
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but I see the server is already medium rear...
The Grilling PC Mod probably got the admin "fired"
I'm sure everything is coming out well done while he's getting slashdotted. Maybe that was the point.
WARNING: there is a trojan on your
I am so going to build a computer in a Gatorade bottle (didn't we do one in an office water bottle not too long ago?), put it on a site with AdSense, post it to /., and fund my education with the hits.
His webserver as it gets slashdotted.
You know, I hear slashdotters have been compared to information hungry virus, they swarm on poor defensless windows 98 webservers and flame em. We consume and then move on to another...
Google only caches the text, the images are still requested from the original server, which in this case is the now burning George Foreman Grill.
J.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
Owner: Hrm. My Server is up and running! Man I'm hungry. /.. Posts story. stands back as grill again is able to cook a hamburger*
*Looks around*
Owner: Now... How can I cook me some lunch. Oh I know how to get things fired up...
*Loads up
Owner: Mmmmm. Mabye I should have used a P4 tho, took so long to cook with a good cpu.
"meat addicts"?
What kind of vegetarian hippie bullshit is this?
If you don't eat meat, you are thumbing your nose at the millenia of evolution man has gone through to fight his way to the top of the food chain.
We didn't come this far to eat salads.
Now build a server rack for that thing out of a piece of chewing gum, a rubber band, and a paper clip.
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
http://www.igrill.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/index.php
;o)
Try that for a mirror
our millenia of evolution has brought us to the point of having no care whatsoever for other living creatures (look up factory farming sometime)? Wow.
600Mhz epia mini-itx: $150 /. to restore the grill function: Priceless
Using Gentoo GNU/Linux: $0
Using
- wacco
The job was very *well done*, and servers like these are very *rare*. You seldom see people use a grill to send content over this *medium*. If this is linked to a database, I suppose he'd store the information in *char* fields.
Someday a Slashdot ID of 177180 will mean something.
79 comments and nobody has asked me to imagine a Beowolf cluster of these yet. C'mon, /. trolls and crapflooders, you're losing your touch.
Seriously, though... If he did have a cluster of them, it might have stood up to the Slashdotting, and he could have cooked a whole cow at once!
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
This makes me wonder, could a system really heat up after a significant increase in traffic? In my experience, things crash or hang up before they heat up. With a functional heatsink, it doesn't seem like there would be any problems with heat. I recall seeing a video of what happens to various processors when the heatsink is removed. Most of the processors were toasted rapidly, however the Pentium (4 I think, but it might have been the 3) slowed tremendously, then resumed normally once the heatsink was put back.
http://img.igrill.co.uk/~jdsg102/image_mirror/
"...This really does bring a new meaning to the Lean Mean FAT grilling machine!" As opposed to a Lean Mean NTFS grilling machine...
Moe: "It can flash fry a buffalo in 30 seconds"
Homer: "30 seconds? awwww, but I want it now!"
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Recommedation: Start looking at one of those 57,000 BTU Weber units.
Should be big enough to drop in a Quad Opteron unit.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Yes, but is it running Electric Grill Linux?
This is yet another $COMPUTER in a unique $PACKAGING, no different than the Lego case, pizza box case, etc.
When are we gonna see some innovative hacks to one's PC? Let's put cosmetics aside and see some function.
Yes, I realized I posted in anticipation and glee in the previous "LED memory" post.
I thought Apple already had this covered with the PowerBook G4 laptop?
try this: www.igrill.co.uk/+&hl=en
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:HKBuO90uhxwJ
Damn, that was awful.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I really enjoy people's mods, but the ones I like are well-dressed. You can build a shoebox PC, but the REALLY cool shoebox (or any mod) PC will have neatly routed or concealed cables & ports.
Still, it's a great effort and a neat idea. He gets mad props from me. I just hope the thing isn't on fire when the guy gets home from work, given all the traffic it's had to handle.
I'd be interested in knowing how it's held up after slashdotting. These mini-ITX jobs are not the most useful machines in the first place, and just using one as a web server has got to be a challenge right from the top. I know that getting the pages across the pond was a real bitch. Hopefully the iGrill performs better for those in the UK. Are there any Brits out there that can offer a performance report?
Very neat. Now I'm hungry for a grilled sandwich.
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Why do these still make it to /.? I feel bad for the person who submitted the story, and bad for the editor that posted it.
Yes, there is just no end to the amount of hollow objects that can hold a modern small form-factor PC system board.
It's no longer considerd creative to wedge a system board into some makeshift case. Hopefully this will be realized before we have to see every possible iteration.
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There are a couple of sites that do instant slashdot mirroring, grabbing the latest articles and mirroring the pages they link to, however shouldn't slashdot be responsibly for doing this themselves? At least create a google like cache and cache the websites, and give links to both the original site and the cached copy with a slashdot banner at top!
The OS, Gentoo Linux, took about a week to get fully up and running...
Wow, compiling Gentoo from scratch in just one week? That's amazing performance! Most people take a full revision cycle to get a Gentoo system up and running.
JtM
"Ad infinitem et ultra!" - Buzz Lightyear
I don't know, still looks a lot better than an iMac to me.
The Farewell Tour II
First practical use of the slashdot effect!
"I object to doing things that computers can do." -- Olin Shivers, lispers.org
speak for yourself, douchebag.
Here's the coralized mirror of the site.
*groan*
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
I am responsible for this piece of...whatever you wish to call it. Sorry to disappoint all the "lol it's grilling now" posters, but it's currently running with a load avg of 0.1, with the cpu at a pleasant 40 degrees C :)
You did manage to trip over my bodge job hitcounter a couple of times though, and my housemates are extremely pissed at me for saturating the dsl line. Oh those apache logs are going to be fun to see.
I've just had to jog 10 minutes to get somewhere I could post this though, which probably balances out the health aspect I lost when I gutted the thing.
The dielectric constant for air at 1 atm is listed as 1.00059. (A vacuum has a dielectric constant of 1.) Water has a dielectric constant listed around 80.4, and I have a bad feeling that may have significant adverse effects on modern computer components.
I know that when you submerge electronics, you generally use nonconductive fluids with low dielectric constants, but I'm not sure how badly the traces would couple, etc, given water's high dielectric constant. Either way, I'd suggest safety glasses.
"What LOOKS like a mini-itx" ??? Did you even read the article you posted? It says very clearly on the first page:
"the iGrill is a 600Mhz Mini-ITX motherboard, an 80GB hard drive, and a 250W PSU, running Gentoo Linux, all enclosed in a George Foreman grill"
Hosting site on grill? Looks like slashdot broiled the CPU.
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Well it better be if hes cooking pork on it. I like my steak medium rare.
what to do with the grill I received as a present. I don't want to insult my in-laws by getting rid of it but I'm not going to use it either...
Looks like I have my answer. They'll never know, I can honestly say that we use the grill all the time.
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And yes, this webserver is hosted on the grill.
World first - a slashdotted George Foreman grill. And it's standing up pretty well so far. Pity he didn't fare so well against Ali.
I'm sure it won't be long before we replace the grilling functionality...
Great I get home & find the house has been slashdoted.
:(
For the record the grill and the router were fine. What people were finding was that our DSL line couldn't keep up.
Oh well
When lions can invent things that let them kill humans armed with rifles then maybe they'll be at the top of the food chain.
My patience is infinite, my time is not.
Please, Slashdot gods, save the "Oh my god, they put a Mini-ITX board in a [insert object x here]" posts for some other site. If I want to see this sort of thing, I'll go to the site mentioned above.
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