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A Mac Mini-lennium Falcon
Jon Bell writes "Derrick Hixson has submitted an amazing entry to the MacMod Mod Competition, a 'supercharged' Millennium Falcon: complete with Mac mini and iSight. It even includes front USB ports. His modguide contains complete build instructions, and plenty of pictures."
And it cooks Toast!
Girlfriend and a life sold seperately. Misleading advertising is always a drag.
This is not the link you are looking for...
http://mods.xkill.net/redir_falcon.html
Platform advocacy is like choosing a favorite severely developmentally disabled child.
I know, I'm new. I apologize to all those who were mildly inconvienienced by my ignorance.
That's what happens when you use a Mac.
You are right. Damn them for using a Mac for this, despite Netcraft saying the server has been Linux/Apache. That'll teach them, they should have been using Windows XP running IIS.
Any time a post has "Plenty of Pictures," it's usually bound to get slashdotted. This is probably because when readers see the words "Plenty of Pictures," they think, "Hey, even if I don't RTFA, I can STFP and infer what TFA is about."
Deduction will get you nowhere with me!
His modguide contains complete build instructions
Well, given that Mac is now based on Mach and BSD, and Apple simplifies everything they can, wouldn't the build instructions be simply "./configure && make all install"?
Yep.
In other news, car salesmen and politicians are dishonest, computer geeks have a below average chance of finding a girlfriend, and the Pope and Donald Trump wear equally silly headpieces.
Who needs a fricken Deathstar when the Slashdot Effect does the same thing quicker? Vader did it the hard way.
Table-ized A.I.
Slashdot editors managed to spell "millennium" wrong twice in the same post!
Oh wait, that's not so amazing after all.
He who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Not entirely unrelated... For anyone who has some spare time and a TI-83 calculator, I conceived a set of functions to plot a Tie Fighter.
In Polar mode & radians,
r1 = tan(Theta^3)
r2 = -tan(Theta^3)
Window:
ThetaMin = -10
ThetaMax = 10
ThetaStep = 1
XMin = -10
XMax = 10
YMin = -10
YMax = 10
It helps to turn axes off.
Try it out... enjoy.
Man, you're never going to get laid.
Sir, the rebel server is in range
Excellent... Commence firing ignition!
Everybody does that, right guys? Guys?
sigfault. core dumped.
Just when you thought people couldn't get any geekier, somebody has to build a better geek.
"Do the editors get a sense of pride in downing other people's servers? I mean, Slashdot probably points people to places such that they get 1000x their usual visit traffic, which means that they are simply unprepared for such an unpredictable load spike."
No kiddin. You'd think people would know better than to post information on the internet. They wouldn't want hordes of people seeing it.
"Derp de derp."
"It's against the EULA to open a Mac mini, and certanly against the NDA. Apple will sue."
It's amazing that you could see the pictures at all considering your anus is in the way.
"Derp de derp."
Only if you use Firewire. With Usb it would take 30+ parsecs ;)
Grammar Zealots: please spare a non-english writer (lastknight dot com)
wow, that site was slashdotted after less then 3 minutes.
"Thats what I'm trying to tell you, kid. It ain't there. It's been totally blown away."
"What? How?"
"Destroyed...by the Empire!"
"The entire starfleet couldn't destroy the whole planet. It'd take a thousand ships with more fire power than I've..."
Yup...
Hmmm... Mistyped link leads to an extra +5 informative huh? Interesting tactic...