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Icy-Flo - The solution to this summer's heat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keeping-it-cool-when-the-lights-are-up dept.

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."

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  1. Go To Hell... by jkrise · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  2. Wow by I+Like+Pudding · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How in god's name was this article accepted? HE PLUGGED A FAN INTO A POWER LEAD! WOW!

    Alert the media.

  3. Impressive by digitalhermit · · Score: 5, Funny

    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).

  4. Should have saved the fan by advocate_one · · Score: 4, Funny

    for that poor little server...

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  5. Re:OMG Net Neutrality! by GuidoJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or we just found where he took the fan from ...

  6. Refresh? by Vo0k · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  7. Re:IDGI by I+Like+Pudding · · Score: 4, Funny

    Take it at face value folks

    So, retarded then?

  8. Re:And the news drought continues.... by harrkev · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    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, /.. 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.

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