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Indiglo Clock Case Mod 136

Posted by Hemos from the time-to-check-the-time dept.
WEEEEEEE writes "Just saw over at GideonTech where they just put up a new Indiglo clock mod for a computer case. With avid LAN party go'ers around here, seems like a easy to do mod to keep track of time while you're fraggin' away. More on it over the HOWTO area."
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  • Redundant (Score:5, Insightful)

    by lexcyber ( 133454 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @04:28AM (#4641228) Homepage
    This feels like there is like one casemod story to many. - Ok, we get it. You can drill holes, put lights, glasses - etc. etc. in your cases. - HotRod Cars has been around for ages, nothing really new about em.

    Only thing that happens is that /. will kill yet another cablemodem or overtraffic som poor bastards co-loc account.

    • Slashdot is just dying (Score:4, Insightful)

      by SexyKellyOsbourne ( 606860 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @04:49AM (#4641287) Journal
      With all these casemod stories, Slashdot is just trying to get a foothold in the nu-geek community -- the kind who was raised by Windows, is addicted helplessly to online gaming, always wears Slipknot t-shirts, always believes all the hardware and game hype that every crap hardware/gaming site out there says, and doesn't even know jack shit about coding, *nix, or computer science as they only care about spurious issues like ATI vs. Nvidia -- but they try to pass themselves off as a Linux hackers and anti-Microsoft rebels, and somehow gravitate towards slashdot after they run Linux for a week and give up on it.

      Every single one of you knows who I'm talking about -- mostly college freshmen and high-schoolers who are nothing more than console gamers with top-of-the-line PC equipment that is only used as a forum posting, warez-downloading, gaming machine and not for anything remotely constructive or interesting.

      They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience. Slashdot should run less stories about casemods and more about phsyics breakthroughs, Linux standards, Microsoft's crimes, what's going on in Congress.
      • Not everyone that likes keeping up on tech news has to be a programmer or run nothing but *nix.
      • AH, the good old times

        You know, my coworker knows a lot about the good old times. They used those brand new Mainfraims. Everything just worked. But nowadays everyone uses those strange PC's. Nothing works anymore. He wishes everthing was like in the old days.

        I can understand, that people liked how it used to be. But time is allways moveing forward. Plus, people tend to forget bad stuff faster than the good things. This makes for a skewed memory of past things. That's why I'm a little skeptical about the good-old-time stories.

      • Comment removed (Score:4, Insightful)

        by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @08:36AM (#4641817)
        Comment removed based on user account deletion

      • Re:Slashdot is just dying (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Cloud 9 ( 42467 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @09:37AM (#4642077) Homepage Journal
        They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience.

        And you think you're part of that core audience? You have a SID well past the half-million mark, which means, unless your account is a dupe, you haven't been here very long at all. I happen to be one of those "nu-geeks", who also happens to have been a member since '98.

        Perhaps the core audience (re: key demographic) is somebody who reads the page, clicks the links, and buys the merchandise! Who better than those college freshmen/high school seniors with all that glorious disposable income.

        If you think there's any such thing as a single community here, you're sadly mistaken. There hasn't been a single community since I started reading /. There are, instead, many communities, which /. happily caters to by posting stories that might interest people in those communities.

        And who's to say the people who know more than "jack shit" don't happen to like casemodding and hardware news as much as your "nu-geeks"? Not everybody is as willing to pigeonhole themselves as you apparently are.

        (OT) Finally, I'd just like to mention that I'm getting slightly sick of all the elitest snobbery amongst the "Linux Gurus" around here. I have 5 machines, all well used, running Windows, Linux, Freebsd, and (gasp) OS 9. That doesn't make my penis any larger, that doesn't make me live any longer, and that doesn't make me want to prance around like some kind of lord.

        You talk about the people installing linux and using it for a week as if it's supposed to be a bad thing. At least they're trying something new. Maybe they'll try it again, maybe not. I do know this, though. If I'd seen people acting as piggish as the *nix elite around here, and hadn't had the support of the few people willing to help me surmount the ridiculously steep learning curve, I probably would have deleted it too.

      • I'd have to agree partialy on this concept. I am a senior in HIgh School and I find that many of the "geeks" who are aroung my age group tend to stock themselves with the best newest gear they see on TV...dude, its a fucking Dell, get over it. I have little money, so I was forced into building my computers from scratch, which gives me more respect for my tower. I also made sure I had a computer just for coding and programming (an old 133 that can only handle that). Concequently, case moding just doesnt seem that important to me.

        Just to partially disagree also, I know alot of geeks my age that are concerned with similar issues rather than what their case looks like in the dark. But there are alot of posers out there and /. does seem to cater to them too often. The page with the mod story has an entire HOW TO on making a CAT5 cable as new news. Making a CAT5 cable is so important that it should be common knowledge, but you know that hundreds of people who pass through the site are going to be amazed that they can make their own. *sigh* Where have the old times gone...
      • This is a good point, but I think that instead of excluding them they should be put in their own section (Mods/OC/Enthusiast) and then that way people can customize their /. prefs to exclude those stories if they so choose. They aren't as enlightened as you make yourself out to be, sure, but they're still nerds, just like you and me.
        • Preferences or no preferences, you ain't got to read it (insert not reading article joke here) and you ain't got to post in it. I pass up articles all the time, but don't complain when there are many I have no interest in. /. has far too many users to singlemindedly focus on a narrow topic they would all be interested in. Hell, even among small numbers of people you are going to have a disparate array of interests.

      • They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract

        I like well-done case mods because they look interesting and are an expression of the owner. I built my current PC with a Lucite case and dual blacklight neon tubes for that very reason. It's more fun to have a glowing clear box on my desk than my old beige case.

        Does that mean I'm not also interested in physics and politics? No. But wait, I also run an M$ OS at home, so I must be a "nu-geek" even though I've been using computers since I was six*.

        Not liking a particular type of article on Slashdot isn't something to have a heart attack over. It's easy enough to ignore the ones you're not interested in. I do it all the time.

        * Apple IIe Forever!

      • FWIW, your core audience is usually much smaller than the "unwashed masses" that will show up as your niche becomes popular. This is one of the things that the internet is great about demonstrating, because it doesn't take forever to occur. You should get used to it, since it's nothing new, and not likely to change.
      • With all these casemod stories, Slashdot is just trying to get a foothold in the nu-geek community -- the kind who was raised by Windows, is addicted helplessly to online gaming, always wears Slipknot t-shirts, always believes all the hardware and game hype that every crap hardware/gaming site out there says, and doesn't even know jack shit about coding, *nix, or computer science as they only care about spurious issues like ATI vs. Nvidia -- but they try to pass themselves off as a Linux hackers and anti-Microsoft rebels, and somehow gravitate towards slashdot after they run Linux for a week and give up on it.

        I like the term. I've frequently wanted a word for these folks, but didn't have one. nuGeek. Nice.

    • Slashdot needs a separate computers MOD topic (Score:5, Interesting)

      by forged ( 206127 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @05:48AM (#4641429) Homepage Journal
      Did we mention [slashdot.org] that Slashdot needs to create a computers MOD section ? This would be attractive to many, i.e. even to you since you could disable this topic in your preferences if you didn't like it.

      Such topic would also make grouping mods together very easy, in order to come back to them later for example at the time you need the most (inspiration, inspiration...;)

    • But this one is really cool - it has 24" chrome wheels, fully hydraulic suspension, and it's covered in Nike stickers.
    • Maybe we need to start a http://www.riceboypage.com/ for modders. looks fast but what do you really have under the hood?

  • Now all my system needs... (Score:5, Funny)

    by DarkHand ( 608301 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @04:28AM (#4641229)
    is an old CD-ROM converted into a cupholder, and a peltier-based beverage cooler. Swank!

  • Is it like TIMEX? (Score:3, Funny)

    by whiteranger99x ( 235024 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @04:29AM (#4641232) Journal
    Does the PC "Take a licking and keeps on ticking?" ;)

  • Just Announced.. (Score:4, Funny)

    by raiyu ( 573147 ) <raiyu@raiOPENBSDyu.com minus bsd> on Monday November 11, 2002 @04:31AM (#4641241) Homepage
    The new indiglo clock server mod, counts the number of seconds between being slashdotted and the server dieing! Reverse your kit today! ^_^

  • ...in a few years.

    I mean, microwaves have clocks. They don't actually need to know the time (except under rare circumstances). Ditto ovens, coffee makers, etc, etc.

    Computers, though, actually need to keep track of the time. Most are set reasonably accurately. So why not?

  • I always have plenty of available clocks around.

    First, my watch, then my cell phone, then, when all else fails, there's always that little clock in the bottom right corner, opposite of the start button. (Yes, Windows. I am a gamer.)

    Lighted fans, windows letting massive RF out to disrupt ham radio/give cancer/whatever, cold cathode lights, are there any case mods that actually have any functional use, or do those just not make it as stories because of lack of coolness factor?
    • I have a linux box and a Win box. Both have the time in the bottom right corner. It sorta makes sense to me to have it there, even if KDE hadn't done that as a default.
    • Well, I cut a hole in (the back of) my case and
      mounted a fan (with a guard) to draw air across my
      extra hard drives... I mounted them by attaching
      four sheetmetal strips to tabs at the top of the
      case above the power supply (it's a full tower).

      These two mods allow me to add 5 more drives to the
      case, and keeps them (and the rest of the case)
      cool. Barracudas run too darned hot without a
      serious airflow over them.

      I also clipped apart a pile of "Y" power connectors
      and soldered them together (with heat-shrink) to
      make a power-bus. This eliminates the considerable
      instability caused by daisy-chaining "Y" connectors.
      My system had 11 drives, but the power supply only
      had 4 power connectors... each "Y" only adds one
      extra connector, so it was a huge array of them
      before I did this. It makes the wiring much neater
      too, at least the power wiring (I still have 2
      SCSI busses throughout the case).

      It's not glitzy, but it's functional.
  • Frink: Uh, all you have to do is think of things that people need, but which don't exist yet.
    Homer: You mean like an electric blanket mobile?
    Frink: Uh, well... possibleh... or, you could take something that already exists, and find a new use for it. Like..
    Homer: Hamburger earmuffs!
    Frink: Uh I suppose that would qualify.

  • ...does it make the computer a better *computer*?

    If it doesn't, i'm afraid i'm not that interested.
    • You may not be interested in a mod that doesn't improve the computer's performance, but surely you can see why people do this kind of thing? To make their box look cooler and more interesting than the standard beige box. I know every kid and his dog has a window and cold cathode lighting in their machine these days, but these people (myself included) are no 'worse' than people who decorate their cars with fluffy dice, bodykits, etc. They don't improve how the car runs, but (when properly done) can sure make it look better.

      I'm windowing/lighting one of my old PC's 'cos it's going to be a backup machine/MP3 player in my living room, and when I'm done with it it'll definitely look better than a beige box in the corner of the room. Also, it gives me something to do 'cos I'm bored out of my mind at home. :-)

      Cheers,
      68K.
      • [fluffy dice] don't improve how the car runs, but (when properly done) can sure make it look better.

        Cars are just metal boxes with a wheel at each corner, the only way to make them look better ir to put them throug a scrap yard and recycle the metal into something interesting.

        Same goes for beige box computers. Putting a hole in the side just gives you and ugly box with an ugly hole. What's the point? Stick it under the desk or put a plant in front of it and use the effort/cash to do something which has some chance of atually improving something.

        • Cars are just metal boxes with a wheel at each corner
          Ah, I guess you drive a Volvo. ;-)
          the only way to make them look better ir to put them throug a scrap yard and recycle the metal into something interesting.
          Wow, I really picked a bad analogy, didn't I? You really seem to hate cars...
          Same goes for beige box computers. Putting a hole in the side just gives you and ugly box with an ugly hole. What's the point?
          Because it makes it look better, that's all. Also, why not?
          Stick it under the desk or put a plant in front of it and use the effort/cash to do something which has some chance of atually improving something.
          Would you decorate your house, seeing as it doesn't actually improve anything? Why bother with painting the walls, seeing as most of us only stare at the TV when we're at home, anyway? Man, we could take all our spare cash and effort and donate it to good causes if we really wanted to improve things, but I bet most of us don't do that, do they?
          • Wow, I really picked a bad analogy, didn't I? You really seem to hate cars...

            Not really, it's just that they are so BORING. Car designers are like PC designers and mobile phone designers. They all make a big fuss about lways coming up with essentially the same design as everyone else. Look at a car from 50 years ago and one from this year, the designs are only trivially different, still a box with a wheel near each corner. Of course it is really the consumers who drive the conformity.

            My point wasn't that it doesn't make sense to make things look better, but that cutting a hole in a beige box and panting it blue doesn't cut it. As I said, putting a plant in front of it would ave more positive effect for less effort.

    • That's why people buy cars for their internal values, not some glitzy design! And why interior designers just love this beautiful shade of beige that you see so often outside of computer rooms!
      Kidding aside, I happen to think that design is, while not the most important consideration, at least worth a thought for a tool I'm going to work with every day for a couple of hours... And the fact that I can show off my individualism and 1337 electronics skillz with adding the odd LCD or LED-fader doesn't hurt :)
      To return to the topic, IMHO a computer I like to work with is a better computer than one that hurts my eyes when I look at it.

  • A Possibility (Score:3, Insightful)

    by whiteranger99x ( 235024 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @04:49AM (#4641288) Journal
    Actually, as simplistic as this hack appears to be, I wonder if there might be some way a similar clock could interface more directly with the computer (maybe USB or serial interface or something).

    I would imagine it could have some bells in whistles, like synchronizing the clock to a time server, forecast the weather, or something else to that effect...

  • Wait a minute... I saw this on H*R! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Xaroth ( 67516 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @04:51AM (#4641293) Homepage
    "So, Bubs... how's it coming?"
    "Oh, hey Strong Bad. I think I'm almost finished. It took me a little while to figure out what I was gonna do. Then I duct taped an alarm clock to your VCR!"
    "Duct taped an alarm clock to the VCR. See, I never woulda thought of that. Ok, there's some hairs that are seemed to be stuck in the duct tape here. Was that on purpose?"
    "Oh. No. That's just left over from my first idea, which was to duct tape The Cheat to your VCR. He wasn't into that."
    "Oh, I coulda told you that, man. Well anyways, thanks for your help, Bubs... and thank you, Cory Dewey-Smith. Sooo... join us next week when we'll be duct taping clocks to all kinds of different stuff."

    (courtesy of Strong Bad's Email [homestarrunner.com])
  • That case is just ugly. The colors are all wrong and that clock thing is just way out of place. Oh wait..

  • epoxy + clock (Score:3, Insightful)

    by g4dget ( 579145 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @04:59AM (#4641311)
    I don't get it. If you really, really need this, why not just epoxy a clock to the case?

    • Re:epoxy + clock (Score:3, Insightful)

      by doowy ( 241688 )
      I don't get it. If you really, really need this, why not just epoxy a clock to the case?

      That's essentially all he did. It still needs to be plugged into an independant power source (he just snaked the alarm clocks wire out the back of the case). How this is news, I do not know.

      On second thought, he did manage to cut a hole in a piece of plastic - I suppose that does deserve some attention. pfft.
    • Or wear a freakin' watch...
    • Exactly. But hey, I'm excited, I didn't know I was a case modder. I bought $2 clocks meant for car dashboards and stuck them my machines years ago. ;)

  • What time is it? (Score:4, Informative)

    by comet_11 ( 611321 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @04:59AM (#4641313)
    Well, no need for a clock/pc any longer, we all know what time it is! It's slashdotting time!

    Google cache can be found: here [google.com]

  • No true warrior cares about time. When you have to frag, you frag.

  • [S]lashdot_ORG (Score:3, Informative)

    by Konster ( 252488 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @05:07AM (#4641329)
    I'm not into case modifications, but I can appreciate some of the more inventive work people have done in this area [bit-tech.net]. I'm not certain that this belongs on Slashdot, per se, but it doesn't really do any harm to post something that might lead to discussion, and might lead me to finding out something neat, whether in the story or in the postings.

    Just so long as I don't start seeing [S]lashdot, I'll be happy.

    No offense meant to Kyle and [H]ard_OCP. =D

  • dumb (Score:1)

    by doowy ( 241688 )
    uhg. "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."

    The guy took apart an alarm clock and shoved it into an even larger casing. This is news?
    • no, but it sure as heck matters!

      I suspect theres been a long term performance problem with LCDs, probbly lost a whole 0.05 FPS so this mod indirectly increases cpu speed slightly?
    • Yeah, I was more than a little disappointed as well.

      I thought the display was going to be driven by the computer -- there are a number of people that have written software (often for Linux) to control attached LCD panels, which can be mounted in a drive bay to display time/load/temp, etc. The worst, though, was the fact that it had another power cable running through the back. Ugh.
  • If someone managed to squeeze a whole computer into an indiglo.
  • then could it not be done using the PC's power supply?
  • who cares that this got posted, its 3 or 4 am, opps its 5 now, does it really matter that someone posted a casemod story at this time? it is a bit pointless of one. but i dont think there were any important things happening right now.
  • A guy who put a fscking alarm clock in his drivebay? What is going on here at slashdot.org? Maybe I'm just grumpy because I thought that my stories where better (IMHO, of course)
    # 2002-09-12 21:22:32 800-1000MHz handheld (articles,hp) (rejected)
    -- Is not news that handhelds are reaching 1GHz?
    # 2002-09-13 06:55:11 Outdoor Quake (articles,tech) (rejected)
    -- Now this was really interesting news (IMHO). Some University dudes rigged Quake so they could run around outside with wearable computers and frag each other. (They did this with Quake+GPS+HUDs+custom map of campus)
    Slashdot.org is going to the dogs...
    News for kiddies, stuff that blows chunks!
    J.
  • The article is on gideontech.com. That's precisely what the link on the submitters nick is as well. I love it when people pimp their own shit and the editors post it. :/

    I, for one, don't care about this stuff. I prefer to create my content using the computer as a tool...not as an integral part of my "art." If you get your rocks off cutting holes in computers and putting in neon lights, you need to get out of the house more. It was bad enough that people were doing this shit to cars [ricecop.com], but now computers too? Pathetic.

    Yes, I know I'm an asshole.

  • This isn't even a good mod (Score:3, Insightful)

    by DaCool42 ( 525559 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @06:39AM (#4641517) Homepage
    The circuit board for the clock is not mounted in any way. The power is coming in on a seperate AC line. Even if this was a good idea, it was done very poorly. And wouldn't it be much better to put in an LCD and use lcdproc instead?
    • Alternatively, rip out the guts of the clock, figure out the requisite DC voltage, and have the computer's power supply give it the power. Use a battery to keep it powered during the times when you move the computer.

      You're right, there're tonnes of ways of making this mod better.

      • Well, for starters, why did he even use an AC-powered clock? Get one that at least starts out as battery-based. Then, it's not that hard to changes the computer's +5V to whatever the clock needs. In fact, you'd prolly be able to use the +5V even if the clock used something "close" to that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not endorsing this mod. But, if I'm going to waste my time to see the pretty pictures, I'd at least like to see that it was done right. Go get an Electrical Engineering degree and try again.
  • I made my computer go fast. It has a big wing on it, and lots of stickers. Stickers make a computer go fast. I put 2 extra fans in it because fans also make computers go fast. I get lots more FPS now. The window helps me play games faster. The RF from the computer makes my fingers faster. That's good. Painting my computer race yellow makes my FPS go up. I can frag more l0z3r5 that way. The blinking rope lights let me know when I frag some 1337-w4nn483 l0z3r.

    And the wonder why their stock is in the toilet. They spend all of their credibility appeasing the script-kiddie-gamer crowd...

    BART: But I have 52 million shares! What's 52 million times zero?

    They had better get their act together before the repo man comes for their soul patches.

  • Terminology (Score:3, Informative)

    by Logopop ( 234246 ) on Monday November 11, 2002 @08:46AM (#4641856)
    It's not called 'Indiglo (tm)'. The technical term is 'high voltage fluorescence'. 'Indiglo (tm)' is something Timex (I think) called it when they started using it for wrist watches and the like. Bugs me as much as hearing the term 'S-VHS' when people refer to the video format 'S-VIDEO' (separated chrominance/luminance).
    Important? Hardly. Important to me? Oh, yes!
    • As far as I know, S-VIDEO is not a video format it's a connection standard. S-VHS is a video format.
      • S-video is a video format. It differs from composite in that the chrominance and luminance signals are separate. The HI-8 and S-VHS Tape formats both utilize S-Video to enhance the color bandwidth.
        Connectors for S-Video come in various flavours. The common circular 4-pin plug is universal. More european is the SCART, which can carry S-Video, RGB, Composite, sound, + control signals. No TV's are sold in northern Europe without this connector. More info here:
        http://www.daveladd.demon.co.uk/pscart/scartpino ut .html
        or here
        http://www.btinternet.com/~krazy.keith/elect ronics /scart.html

  • "People are afraid of new things. You should have just taken an existing product and put a clock on it or something."
    -- Homer, on the baby translator, "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"

    I'm of the opinion that case mods in general are just plain dumb, in the same way that "Type R" stickers and outrageously large fins are on cars-- but this takes the cake as the stupidest case mod I have ever seen. Dude, buy a fucking wristwatch and save some time and effort.

    I don't know what's worse, that someone saw this as a worthwhile project, or that an blurb about it was submitted and accepted on Slashdot.

    ~Philly
  • Why did this guy buy the biggest clock with the most parts to rip off before installing? He could have gotten one like this [assistedaccess.com] or an even smaller dash clock and not had to tear off any radio parts to be able to mount it in his dumb sky blue computer.

  • What a hack!!!!! (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonym1ty ( 534715 )

    What a hack... it looks like he hacked it with an axe.


    C'mon... if you are going to drill a hole clean through the power supply, can't you just solder the power plug to the back of the 120v jack? -it would be safer.


    What about that printed circuit board shoved into a conductive metal box... that board has 120v AC in it too! FIRE FIRE FIRE

    This hack job is unsafe and should not be recommended to anyone.

    PLUS IT'S UGLY!
  • okay, so maybe it was just me, but the side-on view of the case cut-out just *screamed* pendulum to me - you know like the glass panel in the front of a grandfather clock.

    Of course carrying it to LAN parties is another matter
  • You wanna keep time while playing games...get a watch. mod wasn't really newsworthy
  • A prefab clock put in a bezel. Fabulous.

    By the way, Indiglo is not meant to be 'always on' - it becomes a dim, dull greyish color after a couple months. :)

    I'd have been somewhat impressed if someone had made a breadboard LED clock with big bold BOMB numerals and put that behind the ubiquitous "windows" that me-too modders carve in their PCs.

    But these days glowing red LED clock numerals probably leads to incidents with frightened maintenance workers calling the FBI. At least in the U.S. :)
  • I'm sorry but am I the only one who thinks most case mods look really fuckin' stoopid?
  • This gives me a sick idea. How about a huge external LCD display that counts your frags? Maybe you could set it up to play a recording of maniacal laughter every time it increments. Then you could position it over by your opponent's monitor...
  • Ok, so it's a clock... It doesn't look that great, that paint he used is going to come off easily, the screws should have been painted over so they don't stick out like sore thumbs and the holes to set the clock look a little shoddy.
    There's an excellent article on vinyl dyes on that site though, you should all check it out if you're into modding... Supposedly it works much better than paint on plastic. I'll be getting some blue dye and doing my monitors, keyboard and mouse soon. Check it out: http://www.gideontech.com/guides/vinyldye/ [gideontech.com]
  • TSSIA (That's "The subject says it all" for those of you that actually think casemods are cool...)

    It's hard to imagine anything that's less worthy of appreciation as a hack than this tripe. It's a kludge, and a bad one at that: an off-the shelf clock radio, not even integrated into the power system, but with the original clock radio cord dangling out the back of the case, and a few holes hacked into a blank bezel. If this qualifies as a "mod", then I suppose I need to post all the computers and automotive trim I've sprayed with Krylon semi-flat black over the years...

    If the clock was one of those WWV self-setting jobs and there was software to turn the box into a stratum 2 or 3 timeserver there might be some news here, but this is just a joke, and gets my vote for 1) the lamest Slashdot story in the entire history of the site, and 2) the strongest indication yet that Slashdot is completely irrelevant to those that actually *do* know how to do hardware hacks. (Yes I'm one of those "radicals" like James Dyson that thinks that innovative and superior function should determine form (but is not at all averse to attractive and innovative forms), not the other way around...)
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    superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
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