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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."

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  1. but... by theheff · · Score: 4, Funny

    Girlfriend and a life sold seperately. Misleading advertising is always a drag.

  2. Re:./'d already?! by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  3. Plenty of Pictures by somethinghollow · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  4. build instructions by ChipMonk · · Score: 4, Funny

    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"?

  5. Dotstar by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who needs a fricken Deathstar when the Slashdot Effect does the same thing quicker? Vader did it the hard way.

  6. Even more amazing than that... by Rocketship+Underpant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot editors managed to spell "millennium" wrong twice in the same post!

    Oh wait, that's not so amazing after all.

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    He who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
  7. Re:links dead by Bendejo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:links dead by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, you're never going to get laid.

  9. Re:links dead by doxology · · Score: 5, Funny
    Nonsense! He'll write a TI-83 program to do just that! That's what I did!

    Everybody does that, right guys? Guys?

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    sigfault. core dumped.
  10. Re:Mac-lennium Falcon, meet the SlashStar by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sir, the rebel server is in range

    Excellent... Commence firing ignition!


    So you're saying Slashdot fired first?
    Don't worry, we'll fix it in the dupe.

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    "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
  11. Re:down already? by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.

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    "Derp de derp."
  12. Re:Against the EULA by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.

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    "Derp de derp."