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TIE Fighter Case Mod
serutan writes "Extreme Tech just kicked off their weekly case mod contest. The first winning entry is a scale model of a Star Wars TIE Fighter that's both a computer case and a desk. The rig is crafted out of PVC, plywood, a pet exercise ball, and bondo (so basically it's pretty much like the real thing)."
But I still want to build the desk from Tron
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I must say, I am way more impressed by this than pretty much any other case mod I can think of....it is both cool looking and functional....and I think even non-geeks would find it nifty.
Does anyone really have something like this on thier desk?
Just wondering = I'm the kind of geek that puts desk space at a premium and go with whatever takes the smallest footprint.
but this is a freakin cool case... it's nicely done, and the whole scale model thing helps... and it's big, that's cool too
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I'd hate to be the pilot of that TIE fighter, especially when the person using the computer is looking at pr0n.
I think 23 hours a day of it is a bit too much for that pilot to see.
It will never fly!
But why aren't they using those external fins as heat sinks?
Typical Slashdot. Somebody puts a lot of work into something, shares it, and some nitpicker comes along and offers his 2 unwanted cents from the sidelines. Oh yeah, mod that up for sure. 9_9
I've got my whole thing planned out. I'm going to add random lights on the case, make it transparent AND ugly (that's a must), and stick "sponsorship" decals on it. I'm also going to find as many Intel Pentium 4 stickers as I can so it goes faster! I'm going to win for sure.
Seriously though, case modding is really fun for people who don't have the money to add performance to their PC. In fact, you can find various things around the house to make your case Martha Stewart friendly!
Avarus animus nullo satiatur lucro.
... and an incredibly effective female repellant. Obviously should've chosen a TIE Interceptor.
That is all I have to say.
This is how cubicle furniture should be design. I'm sure the PHB will absolutely have to have a Super Destroyer cube.
It truly is an agent of the Empire.
A ship that has the flimsiness of a vulture droid and the bad design of the Jedi fighters. Fuuun.
~Ilyanep
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Interesting, but I'm usually weary of the desks whose lasers are aimed squarely at my balls.
when she walks in and sees that!
Oh, wait! It's Saturday night and I'm posting on slashdot...
Brett
Dude! Those are the wires it hangs from when filming.
When we'll get an x-wing case mod.
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How is he going to get the thing out of the room?
Disney goatse
Seems like a droid Starfighter or a TIE-D would have beeen more appropriate.
onboard everything? In the first pic, you can clearly see the PCI expansion slots to the right of the cockpit window. By the placement of the motherboard, expansion ports would be going upward into the glass. So is he using onboard video, audio, and networking?
:)
I like it being a table much more than a PC case mod
They're great for actually looking at the link, and seeing that your post has absolutely no relevancy to this artwork.
Call me crazy, but what can be put together can in many cases be taken apart and put back together again.
I always wondered why TIE fighters in the movies were little more than target practice for the obviously better trained Rebel force.
You try flying something running Windows XP.
Poor bastards. They never stood a chance.
Yea. That's definitely going to bring in the chicks.
worst pun ever, please mod parent down for being so shitty
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The TIE was running Windows.
So I guess we now know what really happened to the Death Star. A gaping security "hole" + a special download.
I guess it follows that the Rebels used Linux (solid X-Wings, but not enough drivers for them). But no matter how patched they kept flying.
Fat chicks need love, too. But they gotta pay. - Quagmire
Its a tie fighter!!
Oh sure, he spent a lot of time on it and submitted it to slashdot which means that he should only get praise and admiration.
No wonder they lost there using Winblows XP!!!
Size matters not.
Dammit that's the last thing I want to hear when I'm sitting at that kind of desk given the view from the cockpit of that thing.
It's amazing the stuff you can cobble together when there is no chance you will ever, ever, EVER have sex.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
The kind of guy that would complain about his girlfriend's stubble when she's giving him a blowjob.
Like I always say, if you're gonna have an unshielded source of high frequency electromagnetic emissions, the best place for it is pointing right at your crotch.
Tee hee!
Unidentified users and Mac zealots will be shot in the balls if they try to sit down and use the Tie-PC.
Slick desk, for sure, but why is it that whenever I see a screenshot of XP it has like 54 icons on the desktop? I'd be so much happier to see a really slick screensaver, a tastefull linux desktop, or even an XP desktop with less than 54 icons on it...
Oh that is precious!! go ahead and look, it wont sear your eyeballs or get you fired from work.
The practical thing about this "casemod" is that it is the desk - and a cool looking one at that, so you have the entire theme figured out besides a nifty poster to hang above on the wall!
Take off every 'ZIG' !!
Oh give it a fucking rest. Yes, we realize that most people here prefer Linux, but the constant ragging on Windows is annoying as all get out. You could at least try to be clever in noting their OS choice, but instead you're just being a douchebag. So stop.
R2 Case Mod
If they made it MMOG, and had an actual galactic struggle going on where your mini battles affect the overall campaign then it'd rock.
God spoke to me.
When I hear the words Tie fighter I can't help but think about this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
That is one of the coolest things I have seen all day! Great job!
Impressive!
...not to run the same program twice, lest you run into your own bright digital trail...
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
This case mod is gold Jerry, gold!!!
Whaddaya gonna do?
...I will import my FreeBSD filesystem to my home directory for native archive exporting installation kernels.
At least someone got it. Sigh.
Be relentless!
Dude, totally. First clue:
No authentication scheme. I mean fuck, without it being digital signed, puh, any thrid grade crypto specialist knows what can happen.
The shadows don't match up, total C/P job on the wiring, gah any third grade photoshop trainee could have hacked that up in like 20 minutes. Or a farker for that matter.
Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
>>of Lucasart's TIE Fighter, the greatest
>>game of all time.
>>That is all I have to say.
Absolutely; I still have that game - albeit on the shelf - and played the hell out of it. Most fun I've had with a game - ever.
They should absolutely release an updated version with the same single player gameplay of the original. Adding multiplayer would be sweet - in this day and age pretty much a must - but they should not sacrificed single player gameplay.
OT, I'm impressed with the mod. It looks great and was undoubtedly a lot of work - $300 and a ton of time. My carpentry/woodworking/bondo/pvc skillz are pretty lame; had a buddy build me a great desk for about $150 - took him about two half-days.
Would have taken me an eon and probably a trip or two to the ER to make something servicable. To paraphrase Simon (FireFly): I'm like a trained ape, without the training.
"Gay."
"I've got a case that's got some duct tape mods. Will it get posted?"
Only on the Red Green website.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
The Rebel Squadrons still has people who play & make new TIE Fighter missions. X-Wing, XvT, XWA too.
It's the ricing of the computer world. Slap a type-r sticker on there while you're at it.
Of course, Linux. The whole Rebel operation would benefit greatly from open source personnel, fleet, intelligence and supply management solutions.
1.) No vendor reliance. Your YT-1300's hyperspace motivator giving you heck? If you rely on the proprietary APIs to get fixed, you'll wait forever - the Corellian Engineering Corporation deprecated the YT-1300 for the YT-2400 way back when it was still just called "The Republic." Paid extended support from the company ended a long time ago in an Imperial mandate, and the only consultants who can help are practically in a galaxy far, far away from the Galactic Rim.
Or, you could convert your ship's software to Solo Enterprise's FalconLinux! No other onboard systems control software can speak more languages out of the box than a protocol droid (even Wookie!), and driver patches are still available and still being developed to avoid those damn untimely hyperspace drive GPFs (not to mention some under-the-table packages to spoof ship ID codes, or watch the latest encrypted holodiscs). Vendor availability may be interrupted, however, by an Imperial lawsuit from Coruscant's Starcraft Control and Operations, a subsidary of TIE developers Sienar Fleet Systems, which claims Linux is based on smuggled source code. Which is, of course, total bantha poo-doo.
2.) Better chance at a fast response to critical feature requests. Targetting computer unable to hit that exhaust port? Proton torpedo guidance system can't make a precicely-timed 90 degree turn? You don't need the Force, padawan! Don't wait for a patch to just magically appear upstream, just write it yourself. You benefit yourself, you benefit your wingmen, and you benefit the Rebellion. What, you think there was some mystical energy field that controlled that protorp? Naw, Luke Skywalker was just a bad-ass with Python and C++, thanks to tons of practice overclocking and optimizing the code on his trainer's Tatooine womp-rat targetting system.
3.) Lower cost of operations without resorting to theft. The Rebellion thrived on two things - making the most out of limited resources and stealth. Sure, smuggling raids were necessary for vital supplies. But why risk a team of commandos and a fighter escort to steal a bunch of traceable copies of Imperial Viewport SDOS: Imperator Edition - especially since your equipment is too outdated to even boot the operating system? Linux would provide the Alliance with a practically free solution, customizable to run on everything from a swiped Imperial databank to an A-Wing and an astromech to a datapad. And there's a sympathetic support base of volunteers across the holonet. Seriously. I'm telling you, that SCO lawsuit is a damn Fett conspiracy!
You underestimate the power of Darth Pastius.
does it do that screaming sound, the *WOOOOOOOAIINNNNNNNNNNNNNN* one when it overheats :?
I will really be impressed when they make a case mod of C3PO that actually walks around, talks to you and can pilot your TIE Fighter case mod against you in deathmatches of Star Wars Battlefronts. That would be trully amazing...
...and it should be known by now
Is that you? I didn't know homophobic late-night hosts posted here! Love your show though. Maybe you can showcase this PC and make fun of its builder with your "geek" voice too.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
I know that this site is for nerds (myself included). After reading this story, I was pretty sure that the nerd factor could not get any higher. Then I saw that people actually started making fun of the fact that the computer was running windows. geek++;
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a modded case is one thing, but this is just rediculous. seriously.
why don't these people (i'm talking about the extreme ones who make tie fighter computer cases/desks) do something more useful with their time, like make innovative a cool products -- something everyone could benefit from?
what a waste.
Can you imagine a cubical farm made of those? Better yet, can you imagine the reaction of all the non-IT department drones when they saw their new cubes? Priceless.
When /. is the last to a link posted by BoingBoing and Fark earlier today.
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I'm guessing he isn't repelling any females.
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I put all my usual icons in the Quicklaunch bar along with my Network Control Panel. (Please oh please, Microsoft, bless us with Network Profiles like Mac OS has...) That quicklaunch bar is one of the most useful features (and I always disable the Desktop Cleanup Wizard so that when I re-ghost my system after 60 days it doesn't whine and bitch at me.) I hope somebody comes up with a launcher like Quicksilver or Launchbar for Windows really really soon.
Turn on your Monitor. Luke Skywalker has been captured. While ENN has no pictures at this point of time, the military channel (TIE) released some pictures. I managed to capture a couple of these pictures off my monitor. Ive attached a slideshow containing all the pictures I managed to capture. I apologize for the low quality, its the best I could do at this point of time. Hopefully ENN will have pictures and a video soon.
God bless the Emperor!
Parsec is not a unit of time, numbnuts.
And as a bonus feature, the geek who built this thing can get a blow job from the cockpit.
That was a joke, numbnuts.
That's a classic!
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
[joke]yes, a nice large LOTR poster would be great[/joke]
Is this possibly the first time a Troll has been modded +5, Funny? ...just wondering... and I have to admit, that is pretty humourous.
Got another as I noticed the first CD was a bit scratched (don't want to ever be denied access to this game) - That story line was the best ever in a game as far as I'm conserned.
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