A Mac Mini-lennium Falcon

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 1, 2005 @04:19PM from the mos-eisley-usb-ports dept.

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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links dead by BRUTICUS · 2005-09-01 16:22 · Score: 5, Interesting

but heres a tie fighter case mod in the meantime
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1823675 ,00.asp
1. Re:links dead by Bendejo · 2005-09-01 17:35 · 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.
2. Re:links dead by Seumas · 2005-09-01 17:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Man, you're never going to get laid.
3. Re:links dead by doxology · 2005-09-01 18:53 · 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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Done with a PC long ago. by PhilixDMA · 2005-09-01 16:22 · Score: 5, Informative

It was done with a PC long long ago: http://mods.xkill.net/redir_falcon.html/
1. Re:Done with a PC long ago. by 06metzp · 2005-09-01 16:26 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  ^ mistyped link, should be:
  http://mods.xkill.net/redir_falcon.html
  
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but... by theheff · 2005-09-01 16:24 · Score: 4, Funny

Girlfriend and a life sold seperately. Misleading advertising is always a drag.
down already? by Jeff+DeMaagd · 2005-09-01 16:25 · Score: 4, Insightful

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.
1. Re:down already? by NanoGator · 2005-09-01 20:10 · 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."
Re:./'d already?! by Jeff+DeMaagd · 2005-09-01 16:32 · 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.
Plenty of Pictures by somethinghollow · 2005-09-01 16:33 · 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!
cache by mr_clem · 2005-09-01 16:34 · Score: 4, Informative

here is the google cache of the site, pretty neat actually....
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=cache%3Ah ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.macmod.com%2Fcontent%2Fview%2F371% 2F101%2F&btnG=Search/

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server is rebooting now. by oojacoboo · 2005-09-01 16:40 · Score: 5, Informative

hopefully we can keep it up
X-box was done a while ago, too... by scdeimos · 2005-09-01 16:40 · Score: 4, Informative

X-box in a 1979 Millenium Falcon model
build instructions by ChipMonk · 2005-09-01 16:41 · 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"?
Coral Cache link. by Max+Romantschuk · 2005-09-01 16:50 · Score: 4, Informative

Here's the Coral Cache link:
http://www.macmod.com.nyud.net:8090/content/view/3 71/101/

Should start working after a while... Coral should cache the pics as well, as Mirrordot is useless in this regard (picks behind links)...

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Mirror by noth(a)nk.you · 2005-09-01 16:54 · Score: 5, Informative

MirrorDot Archive: http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/86fd73f0fa55d0317 211082b067e0031/index.html
Dotstar by Tablizer · 2005-09-01 17:17 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Even more amazing than that... by Rocketship+Underpant · 2005-09-01 17:24 · 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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Re:Mac-lennium Falcon, meet the SlashStar by ozmanjusri · 2005-09-01 20:09 · 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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Re:Against the EULA by NanoGator · 2005-09-01 20:16 · 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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