Quiet Desk (Not Desktop) PC 276
Anonymous Coward writes "Rusty took a wholly different approach to PC noise: he built his XP1900+ machine right into the desk! While it may not make the PC industry scramble to define a new *desk* (not desktop) form factor, Rusty's inventive techniques will surely have computer hardware enthusiasts poring over his fine work."
Re:Upgrading...... (Score:5, Interesting)
Did you see that? I've had enlight cases with sides that pop right off. I've had beautiful huge Addtronics cases that have doors that open, on simple hinges, and with a motherboard panel that takes all of 30 seconds to remove.
This man's desk kicks the ass of everything I've seen.
Aside from the time it would take to cut a new vent (he can position a new motherboard to use the current hole in the desk for the vent), this is the easiest to upgrade, most accessible machine I've ever seen.
It would take less time to pop a new PCI card into it than it would to reboot it. All he has to do is pull out a drawer, pop the card in, and he's done.
This thing is beautiful.
Caffeine Machine (Score:5, Interesting)
Nothing new (Score:5, Interesting)
To him it makes perfect sense. He can expand more easily without opening cases and it solves some heat issues you get in tiny enclosures. Not to mention its totally silent.
Actually a desktop PC (Score:2, Interesting)
Imagine a sheet of e-paper with touch sensitive layer on top of it on an engineer's desk. The engineer uses a stilus to enter schematic diagrams and navigate the UI. A virtual keyboard program can be started for text entries.
This paradigm would work for a lot of things an average user would use a computer for: web surfing, e-mail, text processing. It would probably be a tough fit for multimedia and gaming, though.
Re:Hasn't this been done before? (Score:2, Interesting)
Mirror the damn sites (Score:2, Interesting)
Kinda reminds you of... (Score:4, Interesting)
Sadly, it's been discontinued, which is why you'll only find it in Google's cache.
Cool idea though.
On a lighter note, you could now have water cooling linked to a nice decorative fish tank - hell you don't even need real fish
OK, I'm sick of this (Score:5, Interesting)
Sheesh. How hard is this? Quietly prepare a mirror of the site. Post the story. When their poor little server goes screaming into the abyss, shoot them an email that says, "Hi. Sorry we depthcharged your site. Would you like us to point our link to a mirror?" They say "Hell, yes."
Problem solved. Well, OK, maybe warning them in advance would work better.
Admittedly, I am far from the sharpest crayon in the box, and yes, this adds a layer of administration and screwups, but how is that any worse than the subject of almost every single story being unavailable?
We're supposed to be a bunch of smart geeks here. Slashdotting sites into the next millenium is a technical problem. Why can't we fix this?
And no, dammit, this is not off-topic.
Heat? (Score:2, Interesting)
They should start making vents on the top of computers (and the top of this desk), just to take advantage of the fact that heat rises. why waste so much energy fanning it out the back?
I've seen a computer in a desk before... (Score:2, Interesting)
Variation (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Poor table (Score:2, Interesting)
Ah, here we are:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/20552
"The Ultimate Gaming Table"
Check out their news archives:
http://www.agyris.net/portal/newsarchives.asp?Pos
where they discuss rising from the ashes after being slashdotted.
I've thought about... (Score:2, Interesting)
Old News (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I did this, poorly. (Score:2, Interesting)
It isn't that hard - you could use the pins from the motherboard for the fans, or use floppy drive power lead, or even use the parallel port (then you could switch the fan on or off from software
Read the Coffee-howto - its a mini howto at www.tldp.org
Good idea, couple of problems w/ proposed solution (Score:2, Interesting)
1. Accountability. Most sites will want to know how much traffic their mirrored site is getting. Surely the geniuses at Slashdot could provide a mechanism for the sites to get this data. Perhaps the old pixel gif trick would apply here, the mirrored site could simply deliver a 1x1 gif from a server with logging turned on:
mirroredsite.com/slash/pixel.gif?story=coold
mirroredsite.com/slash/pixel.gif?story=coolde
Just parse the results with grep, a script, load into DB, whatever. (I used to work in engineering at DoubleClick so I'm aware of all the fun you can have with pixel gifs
2. advertising. Most third party advertising is handled via a couple lines of html pulling from someone else's server anyway, so you probably just need to include this html intact or maybe provide some simple functionality to plug in random numbers for cache busting--either server-side or w/javascript.
Voila, slash serves the html w/embedded img src tags to pull pixel gifs from mirrored site, advertising from whererever. Slash can either host the bandwidth-intensive images/media themselves, or go with someone like Akamai if they aren't interested in this nightmare (I wouldn't be).
Some kinks to be worked out, admittedly, but this could work.
Re:Look Ma! No video card! (Score:2, Interesting)