A Mac Mini-lennium Falcon 120
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."
links dead (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,182367
Re:links dead (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:links dead (Score:5, Funny)
Re:links dead (Score:5, Funny)
Everybody does that, right guys? Guys?
Re:links dead (Score:2)
Picture (Score:2, Informative)
Tie Fighter [osu.edu]
Re:links dead (Score:3, Interesting)
Hey, isn't that a TIE Interceptor, not Fighter?
And while you're at it, how about trying to plot out my geekiness on knowing that. Might be beyond the device's capabilities.
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Ground effect cooling fans (Score:2)
It might sound a trifle loud though.
I guess for added effect he could also add a blue light below it just like the ricers do on their cars.
Re:links dead (Score:1)
Re:links dead (Score:2)
So, in the words of Han Solo "Great, kid, don't get cocky".
(sorry, too good to pass up)
Done with a PC long ago. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Done with a PC long ago. (Score:5, Informative)
http://mods.xkill.net/redir_falcon.html [xkill.net]
Re:Done with a PC long ago. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Done with a PC long ago. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Done with a PC long ago. (Score:3, Funny)
http://mods.xkill.net/redir_falcon.html [xkill.net]
Re: (Score:1)
Re:Done with a PC long ago. (Score:1)
Re:Done with a PC long ago. (Score:2)
Re:Done with a PC long ago. (Score:2)
and it cooks (Score:3, Funny)
Re:and it cooks (Score:1)
But can it (Score:2)
Re:But can it (Score:2, Funny)
but... (Score:4, Funny)
down already? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:down already? (Score:2, Funny)
In other news, car salesmen and politicians are dishonest, computer geeks have a below average chance of finding a girlfriend, and the Pope and Donald Trump wear equally silly headpieces.
Re:down already? (Score:3, Insightful)
Being free isn't an excuse to be malicious like this though, it's an abuse of freedom.
The issue I have is that it seems the Slashdot editors are being malicious, especially when they have Coralcache and Mirrordot available to them.
Re:down already? (Score:2)
Re:down already? (Score:2, Insightful)
They've been, if not exactly unapologetic, unwilling to change their style from day one.
Re:down already? (Score:2)
That's certainly not the case. In addition there's no real way to externally test how a site will do before it goes up on the main page, all you have available is a trial by fire.
Sure, you could ask the admins, but 99% will say "Hell yeah, my box is kickass and so's my programming, I'll have no problem" while they actually have no idea how bad it could get.
Re:down already? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:down already? (Score:1)
Re:down already? (Score:3, Insightful)
That's the problem though, isn't it? Now *nobody* can see it.
Re:down already? (Score:2)
Only because a lot of people did see it. It's not Slashdot's fault their website wasn't set up to handle the load.
Re:down already? (Score:2)
Darwinism at its best.
Re:down already? (Score:2)
Stuart
Awsome (Score:1, Interesting)
It is right up there with the Bender Computer.
http://www.funlol.com/pictures/bender-computer.htm l [funlol.com]
Plenty of Pictures (Score:5, Funny)
Deduction will get you nowhere with me!
Re:Plenty of Pictures (Score:1)
> 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.
Your observation is correct, but the reason you speculate is probably not. The primary reason sites with plent of pictures get slashdotted easily is because pictures consume quite a lot more bandwidth than text.
In the meantime ... (Score:3, Informative)
AppleFritter [applefritter.com]
and some software ones too:
ResExcellence [resexcellence.com]
Enjoy. Hopefully someone will post a mirror of the orginal.
cache (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=cache%3A
How about... (Score:2)
server is rebooting now. (Score:5, Informative)
MOD PARENT UP (Score:3, Informative)
In case useful to 'ya, here's my experience with the Slashdot Effect [komar.org] - mostly data on the numbers, but a few pointers I learned and got from others in the 2004 summary about configured Apache if useful - big one is turn KEEPALIVE OFF.
Re:server is rebooting now. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:server is rebooting now. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:server is rebooting now. (Score:1)
X-box was done a while ago, too... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:X-box & VIA EPIA was done a while ago, too (Score:2)
build instructions (Score:5, Funny)
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"?
Re:build instructions (Score:2)
Re:build instructions (Score:1)
Coral Cache link. (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.macmod.com.nyud.net:8090/content/view/
Should start working after a while... Coral should cache the pics as well, as Mirrordot is useless in this regard (picks behind links)...
Re:Coral Cache link. (Score:2, Informative)
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Umm...that's it? (Score:2)
Re:Umm...that's it? (Score:2)
Re:Umm...that's it? (Score:2)
Dotstar (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dotstar (Score:2)
Even more amazing than that... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait, that's not so amazing after all.
Re:Even more amazing than that... (Score:2, Funny)
There is a script, it deploys the stories at particular intervals. Sometimes the editors do it themselves but all these "dead time" stories are deployed by a script, so the editor probably either doesn't select them, or selects 20 in advance to be dispensed slowly over a give time period.
Of course all the errors are going to slip through when you are mass-approving stories. Just
mirrordot.org? (Score:1, Redundant)
the dead link is because of this site. (Score:2, Informative)
Mac-lennium Falcon, meet the SlashStar (Score:3, Funny)
Excellent... Commence firing ignition!
Re:Mac-lennium Falcon, meet the SlashStar (Score:5, Funny)
Excellent... Commence firing ignition!
So you're saying Slashdot fired first?
Don't worry, we'll fix it in the dupe.
Well Done!! (Score:1)
New and improved recipe (Score:1, Troll)
2. Vary the theme slightly, but stick to Star Wars or Star Trek.
3. ??????
4. Profit!!
Re:New and improved recipe (Score:2)
not really THAT impressive (Score:1)
Millennium (Score:2)
Re:Millennium (Score:2)
And the way to remember it is to remember how it is derived:
mille == thousand, annus == years, thus millennium == a thousand years
whereas:
mille == thousand, anus == anal orifice, thus millenium == a thousand assholes
Similarly, milenium == a mile of assholes.
Understanding language can be fun.
Down and out. (Score:1)
Re:Down and out. (Score:1)
I actually submitted a simillar idea to Ask Slashdot back in September of 2001, suggesting that if we could get a hold of terrorist email addresses, we could spam them into unusability. Fortunatly, it was never posted, because there are some obvious flaws with that plan.
You're idea here is better, but it would probably still fall into the same pitfalls; who tracks down terrorist websites, who determines which sites are terrorist sites, and how do we make this effect last longer than a couple of days? I
Mirrors don't work (Score:4, Insightful)
I can't wait for the Mac-Nano (Score:2)
Yeah, but what about a Ford Falcon? (Score:1)
Re:Yeah, but what about a Ford Falcon? (Score:1)
Mini + iSight => Robot (Score:1)
I'm always a bit disappointed by these articles on case mods. I guess it's art, but it'd be cooler if the case were mobile...
This guy [google.com] has taken a Mac Mini, an iSight, and a cheap interface board [perfsci.com] (called bTop) to create a programmable autonomous robot [perfsci.com].
Somewhere out there I think there's a video of George's case mod chasing him around the room.
Slashdotted! (Score:1)
That's a lot of trouble to go to... (Score:1)
Re:./'d already?! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
sorry, but that's wrong (Score:2, Insightful)
Also, NDA? Who signs a NDA to buy a computer?
Re:sorry, but that's wrong (Score:2)
This is a production model mac mini (at least nothing in the article suggests otherwise), so I was assuming no NDA was involved as it was likely a retail purchase.
I think the parent was trying to make a joke, but sometimes internet humor misses my eye
Re:Against the EULA (Score:5, Funny)
It's amazing that you could see the pictures at all considering your anus is in the way.
Re:Against the EULA (Score:1)
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/lurgie/ [weebls-stuff.com]
Google cache (Score:1)
That's no moon... (Score:4, Funny)
"Thats what I'm trying to tell you, kid. It ain't there. It's been totally blown away."
"What? How?"
"Destroyed...by the Empire!"
"The entire starfleet couldn't destroy the whole planet. It'd take a thousand ships with more fire power than I've..."