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Where Art Meets Hardware
cowboy_6th writes "It's far from anything the impressionists did, but their paintings didn't make a whirling noise or violate FCC regulations... check out
eMonet . "
Nice. Looks like most of my old sculpture projects.
It's nice to get global recognition for my work. Housemates can only validate you so much.
I got more stuff as well, just havn't got the film developed.
Anyone wanna trade a digital camera for an original cowboy_6th?
This looks very cool, but wouldn't it disrupt cordless phones, radios, and TV's around his neighborhood?
Get it? LOG? It's from the oh-so-wonderful Ren & Stimpy show. They had a wonderfully stupid fake commercial for a children's toy called, "Log" which was just a log with makeup and hair. Really funny stuff.
God I miss that show, much better than South Park and other South Park take offs that are so popuplar for some reason.
My log file is quickly eating my quota...
8200 hits so far.
approximately 330 hitts before today, more than 8000 today. Definitively the /. effect.
But the platform count is very disturbing, for the bunch of micro$oft bashing geeks assembled here:(roughly)
MacOs; less than 600
Linux; just over 1700
Micro$oft windoze; 5100
I am embarrassed by YOU!
hbruijn
Neat. (gimme!) :)
How tall are the standoffs that hold the frame and plexiglas from the wall?
Also, are the usual LEDs (power, HDU) mounted too? Gotta have them blinkenlights.
I suppose adding an LCD display would ruin the effect...
Thanks /. for making a fun day of watching my site get hammered. I just watched my counter (which I started especially for the /.fx) roll over to 10000!
Computer art on the wall - and it is in service too! My kinda art. :)
Codifex Maximus ~ In search of... a shorter sig.
That is sooooo cool. Lesse, I do have an old mobo doing nothing. Hmmmmm.... I'm inspired!
"shop smart:shop s-mart" ash
You could always throw an LCD on the wall next to it with pen recognition... Have it randomly change your artwork like one dork we all know...
Sweet. I like it. It's unique - with it's wooden frame.
And to think that I had an old Seagate HD spindle which I used as a stress relief toy... well, not everyone is as creative, methinks.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
Hit the back button.
Then select the wooden lady there
you can see his log files today...
which suddenly have a huge upsurge of X11/Linux systems.
Visual demonstration of the slashdot effect.
I got the whole log joke.. I just was describing it to point out to people.
On the other hand, i didn't realise it was from ren and stimpy. I've heard about the sketch, but never actually seen it. It popped into my head at the time, but i never realised log was dressed like that in the cartoon.
Well, I think there's a LOT of people on this site who don't use Linux, and are just reading the articles because they're interested.
I don't run Linux personally, but I've set up a quite a few systems running it and do like the system--I just don't mess with my computer enough at home to warrant the time expenditure which Linux requires.
This site has a large Linux focus, but it's not JUST a Linux site.
Am I the only one who has a problem with running a system with the power supply cover off? Maybe the rest of you think I'm just being a wus, but one time I *was* running my power supply coverless, and I got a nasty shock when I accidentally touched one of the heatsinks. And this is hanging on a wall... imagine a party where someone leans against it unknowing, or splashes some wine. I hope there's plexiglass in *front* too... That'd also have the added benefit of protecting the other components as well.
In the meantime, I have a Proxima LCD panel without a power supply. Does anyone know the power supply pinout? (I don't want to spend $220 for a new supply - hell, I only paid $150 for the panel itself! - , and Proxima's mailserver has been FUBAR for as long as I can remember so I can't ask them.) It'd be cool to make art out of my 486-based proxy and also have a visual display on it (make a pulse-like demoish thing which lets me know when various things happen and the like).
I'd considered reworking my workstation's case to being nice and artistic, but I don't have the time or inclination to do what I wanted.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Quine "quine?
Interesting.. I have a Tyan Tomcat IV Dual board I can try this with. It's be cool.. But all I can say is why didn't I think of this..
That darn Slashdot is so cool... Hey did you pay the phone *(#(Q%$#$ NO CARRIER
I don't have pictures of it (unfortunately), but I took pieces of an old Seagate ST-235 (I think), and trimmed 'em down, and used stiffened wire to link everything together... when I finished, it was an articulated hand reaching up out of a base composed of random geek-cruft (a few crushed Jolt cans, random printouts, etc.)
It was a fun project that I did in my junior year of high school... I just wish I still had it somewhere. The other kids liked to take pieces of it and generally cause damage. *sigh*
it's his proxy server.
gives a new meaning to 'frame relay', hm?
I have collected about 300 old 'free' CDs (from AOL to MSN to crap given out at shows to archived newsweeklies to fucked up CD-Rs), and I plan to tile an entire room in my house with them... perhaps the bathroom? :)
"... I declare our city to be a free and independent state to be named Tri-Insula!" --Fernando Wood, Mayor of NYC 1861
Hey I've got enough old gear laying around to try this. Maybe it will be my 15 minutes of fame.
Peter
Too cool! Let's see what it looks like. I just made a mobile out of 50 or so. It casts nice little rainbows.
Peter
60-90 KHz? Suuure...
Try 48.0-49.8 MHz or so.
I'm not sure about the 900 SSM units, but I think that they are in the 902-928.
"All those tubes and wires and careful notes!"
Hey! I do have a Linux box, it's just that the computer I'm on is elsewhere on the LAN here. The Linux one is connected to the cable modem and acts as the proxy server for the house. It's much more stable than that god-awful excuse for a proxy MS makes.
Mike
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"Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?"