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Icy-Flo - The solution to this summer's heat
Steve Kerrison writes "Desperate times call for desperate measures, but I'd like to think of this as more of an exercise in cunning. It's hot, but I'm not, thanks to an Icy-Box and a Panaflo. This was nearly categorised as hardware hacking, but then the only 'hacking' required was the removal of four thumb-screws."
That's a better solution to this summer's heat... with Vista and DNF REALLY REALLY likely to get shipped soon, it should be quite cool in Hell.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Wow.. He took a case fan and powered it from a, uh, power supply. But that's not all that impressive. One time, at band camp, I attached a CD-ROM drive and used power from *ANOTHER* power supply sitting in a *DIFFERENT* machine. And once, at a hacker convention (well, at my friend's house really), we super-hacked a a PS2 mouse to work with a USB interface by using an adapter we rigged (well, it came with the mouse actually).
So I have to guess the other comments.
He attached a fan to an electrical supply?
All I can say is, as an article, that blows.
Either we slashdotted the page or they didn't pay the ISPs premium-access fee.
...would use a superfluid to keep themselves cool. They would also draw upon inspiration to explain the birth of the universe from it.
/. decides to publish something that was born of a jobless geek's attempt to soothe his fevered brow while entertaining himself watching pornography."
Alternatively, I could say, "on another hot summer's day where there was absolutely nothing newsworthy,
Curious Yellow - getting all Grammar Nazi on the asses of punk bitches since he learnt to spell.
Okay, here we see uncontested evidence that the /. effect overheats computers. Er, it overheats computers whose fans have been removed by their owners to cool their own paltry 98.6F down a degree or two, completely ignoring the smoking machine whose processor just jumped to that magical 170F.
I can't even RTFA on this one.
Whenever Mrs. Fitch breaks wind, we beat the dog.
for that poor little server...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
of this fine article..
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I tagged this one "pseudozonk"
The hack seems really simple:
"Please try again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser."
I did, but I don't feel more refreshed really. What am I doing wrong?
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
Take it at face value folks
So, retarded then?
...is a trademark of real genius.
This guy has made a trademark violation.
But if he connected the fan to a power inverter, would that make the article suck?
Tomorrow's news: A guy figures out how to use a wall-wart power supply, thereby avoiding spinning a hard drive and decreasing the heat in the room even more.
/.. You just took five minutes of my life. I want it back! I even had to go to Mirrordot to see this bit of moronic stupidity.
In next week's news: A guy puts a cup of ice in front of the fan for even more X-treme cooling. You have to use the "X-treme" because it points out how really radical this idea is.
Ok,
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
The point... There is no point... Next.
Granted, there are some stupid articles that make their way through the approval process, but this one takes the cake. Many people before this guy, including myself, have done something similar to get some air moving with parts laying around and not have to make a trip to WallyWorld (WalMart) to buy a fan. However up to this point, no one has had the audacity to post up something this stupid.
Damn it. I want my click back.
Oops does that mean when I pushed refresh 1000 times they'll get 1000 emails?
Heheheh.
*clickclickclickclick*
"So there he is, risen from the dead. Like that fella, E. T." - Father Ted Crilly
In other news, man quenches thirst by filling cup with water, then pouring water into mouth.
Downmodding is the refuge of the weak. Don't downmod, make a better argument!