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Server Inside a Suitcase
Spleener12 writes "Andrew Larson and Derek Radke have come up with an interesting case mod concept: a fully fledged server inside of a suitcase (originally designed to hold airsoft guns,) complete with a window, neon lights, and plenty of external ports. The case is a result of a summer's worth of research, design, and construction, and they are planning on constructing a few more to sell to any interested buyers."
This will go over well with airport security.
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People that believe in their opinions don't post AC.
Wouldn't a laptop be a heck of lot easier to carry onto the plane?
"My suitcase got slashdotted."
I can probably think of about 500 different places to hide a mini-ATX board in about an hour, so who cares? I mean, if they did something that not many people can do, that's one thing. But throwing a motherboard and components into a suitcase is nothing to get excited about. Why did this make it to the front page of slashdot?
1. Take MacMini. 2. Place in Suitcase. 3. Turn on.
While im normaly quite impressed by case mods and so on, this thing is little more than a very large steel suitcase with an average machine in it.
I would have been more impressed were it a dual xeon with yada yada yada.... but this thing is hardly anythinbg to gawk at... or care for.
Hell my laptop is a development server... surely it coudltn stand a slashdotting, but neither could this pathetic mod.
Bottom line, Grab any off the shelf 1U rackmount server (HP,DELL, IBM, VISIONMAN, etc) ... attach a handle.... and youve got the same thing, but probably at half the cost and better hardware.
dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.
--Idiots, Every single one of YOU, A flaming mass of conglomerated morons, hey wait a second, isnt that how RAID works?
If it weren't for Bush outsourcing all the IT jobs, nobody would NEED a server in their travel bag!
Before any liberals are tempted to mod up one of my comments, a word of warning: I'm actually making fun of you.
Come on. If you are taking the time to build a server inside a suitcase and post the story on slashdot please take that extra second to remove any smelly slippers and crumbled brown paperbags out of the way before you take a picture.
Thank you.
About four years ago, I met a gentlemen and his son while attending an InstallFest at Cleveland Linux Users Group meeting. He was carrying an old aluminum case similar to the pictures. It did not have the fancy neon, but it was similar in concept. It strictly has a Linux on it (I think it was Slackware, IIRC)
Anyway, this person and his son built it because the child frequently visited his grandmother who did not have a computer. So this child would bring the case along with him and have access to a computer.
I thought it was unusual, but very practical and self-contained. The parts were commodity parts that you can find in any catalog and were inexpensive. Last I heard, the man was planning to have a LCD panel integrated in it. Unfortunately, I lost contact when I decided to move. I wish I could show him this.
Coderz 4 Life
I wanted a fileserver that was portable. I also wanted a backup. So I got two mini itx motherboards, a couple aluminium cd carring cases a few hard drives and I'm pretty happy with the result. I just add a new disk when the current one gets full and I rsync them nightly. I think I'll be able to get 8 disks in each eventually. That's 7 data and 1 for the operating system, my personal data, debian mirror, etc.
-- john
I like how a lot of you guys are being assholes about this. Maybe you don't realize that they are college students. How is a college student going to afford 8 way opterion innards for their guncase server? Seriously I think the whole point is that it was a relatively new case mod idea, because seriously, no matter how many times mr Larson and I have had this discussion, putting lights inside your computer does *not* make it faster. It's eye candy, plain and simple. Give these guys a break, I mean in real life I hate Larson, but sheesh.
Am I the only one sick of all these whiners who complain about the articles on Slashdot?
/. on /., but you just come off as crybabies.
If you don't like the articles, don't read Slashdot, dammit.
You people think you're being cool by complaining about
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I have a Windows Server 2003 laptop I use to irritate the network at school (i.e. make it think it's a domain controller and override all my security settings)
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
In case you find this above poster's actions to be obnoxious and completely out of line, be sure not to visit him at home and tell him:
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Stings a little to have your privacy violated in front of tens of thousands, doesn't it?