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Mac mini Built Into Wall

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

Lilmuckers writes "I have just completed a project to build a Mac mini into the wall of my kitchen. It is hidden and everything works perfectly."

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  1. Unix built into a wall at ISCA by Foofoobar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This reminds me of an old story at the Univeristy of Iowa where they moved a computer department into a new building wherein years later they are trying to find a server. It is still serving packets and no one can seem to find it. Suddenly someone realize that it was probably left at the other building years before when they moved. They go over there and are looking around when someone says 'well the server would have been right here where this wall was. On a hunch, they rip open the wall and sure enough, there is the server still serving packets... 4 years later!

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    1. Re:Unix built into a wall at ISCA by Triumph+The+Insult+C · · Score: 5, Interesting

      dunno if this is a different story, but it sounds awfully familiar to a novell server at UNC

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    2. Re:Unix built into a wall at ISCA by DoktorTomoe · · Score: 4, Interesting

      This is an urban legend common to several academic institutions all over the northern hemisphere. I've heard those in the University of Munich/Germany, in Kyoto, in several educational institutions in the States and Canada. And of course, always it was the router of that specific institution...

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  2. Why not just buy an iMac? by sdpinpdx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Didn't the current iMac design appear before or at the same time as the mini? Seems like that's exactly what he was looking for.

    He could have taped one of the firewire TV tuners to the back of it for the TV function (or streamed it over the LAN from some location with better reception than the kitchen).