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Build Your Own Heavy Metal Server 171

Posted by michael from the vroom-vroom dept.
MC68040 writes "Well, this has to be one of the weirdest computer mods I've seen this far. The heavy metal pc takes compting to maybe not a new but different dimension. Computing on wheels, and we're not talking a car computer here. Have a look for yourself, 2x3.2 GHz on wheels, it's sure worth seeing if you're interested in mods."
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  • damn! (Score:5, Funny)

    by narkotix ( 576944 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:03PM (#9031167)
    i dont think they are using that 2x3.2ghz machine because its slashdotted already with only a couple of comments! :-/
    • Not only is it /.'ed (as I cannot even connect), but it sounds like blatant false advertising, as my Iron Maiden-hungry eyes nearly popped out at the possibility of a server that reflects my musical tastes...
      • Hmm, Eddie meet Xeon, Xeon, Eddie.
        • Okay, my french is failure.

          Que es "Le Temps Detruit Tout" en Ingles?

          Gracias,
          KB
          • "Time Destroys Everything"

            Check out the film Irreversible. It will make you "forget" ever thinking Memento was a great movie.

            • You thought Memento was a good movie? :)

              My friends, who predominantly watch Hollywood movies were completely baffled by the movie. They had a hard time following the plot. It was all very sad.
              • What I really liked was the reversed timeline. I thought it a very interesting storytelling technique. Irreversible does it the justice it deserve.

    • Re:damn! (Score:4, Funny)

      by Bohemoth2 ( 179802 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:34PM (#9031310)
      Bah! if you let yourself be slain by a mere elf, then you deserved it!

    • Re:damn! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Awptimus Prime ( 695459 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:53PM (#9031399)
      Personally, I find it asinine that /. moderators pass links to sites that obviously don't have the bandwidth to deal with being a /. headline.

      Not only does his site suffer, but the other 200 virtual hosts on the server go down too. Guess what that results in? Pissed off customers calling the hosting company raising hell and demanding discounts on that month's service. Not to mention all the people who can't get to the other sites hosted on the box.

      All in the name of a few /. banner ad clicks, eh?

      • Re:damn! (Score:3, Funny)

        by bishop32x ( 691667 )
        What, you would decrease the mighty /. effect becuase of mere bandwidth? please, what would happen to the legendary destructive powers of a /. link if they stopped and thought about it!

      • Re:damn! (Score:5, Insightful)

        by primal39 ( 409681 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @11:13PM (#9031677)
        This debate has raged many times, in many different threads. Here are my (unasked for) two cents.

        1. If you are paying a hosting company, and your site goes down due to inadequate bandwidth, this is not slashdot's fault. Its not even your fault (arguably you should have chosen a better hosting company, but still), it is the hosting companys fault for not having fault-tolerant hardware and / or effective bandwidth-throttling measures in place. While I am not saying the site shouldn't have gone down, it shouldn't have disappeared, and it certainly shouldn't have taken down the other sites running from that box. The admins of the hosting company are at fault here.

        2. If you aren't using a hosting company, and you post something that you even SUSPECT could alter your normal traffic patterns, be prepared for just that. While the slashdot effect is awe-inspiring, its not the be-all and end-all. Lots of sites have survived it before, and not all of them were sitting on huge pipes with mammoth hardware.

        Slashdot has absolutely no burden of guilt in linking to a site inadequately prepared for traffic.

        Just my two cents.

        • Re:damn! (Score:5, Insightful)

          by the unbeliever ( 201915 ) <chris+slashdot&atlgeek,com> on Saturday May 01, 2004 @11:22PM (#9031700) Homepage
          Slashdot should, however, ask the site administrator if it is OK to link to them. Bandwidth can cost money, especially if it is metered daily. Slashdot can cost people lots of money with indiscriminate linking.
          • The site could plan ahead, and block any request with a referer of slashdot. You know, just in case.

            -- Ravensfire
            • well, this is true.

              but most slashdotters know how to get around that, so that's only delaying the inevitable.

              • Re:damn! (Score:2, Insightful)

                by tzanger ( 1575 )
                Actually I believe a block from a slashdot.org referer would be quite effective. Yes most know how to get around it, but most are also lazy as hell. :-)
                • And some of us even have ethics.

                  If someone doesn't want me to go to their site from slashdot, I'll wait a few days for things to die down then go later. This would at least help people with a daily quota.
          • I wonder how effective a lawsuit against slashdot for the bandwidth costs + lost revenue would be.

            Who knows, maybe if they got sued and lost they might changes thier policies about linking.

            • Re:damn! (Score:5, Informative)

              by ibbey ( 27873 ) * on Sunday May 02, 2004 @12:45AM (#9031979) Homepage
              I wonder how effective a lawsuit against slashdot for the bandwidth costs + lost revenue would be.

              Not very. The courts have ruled that links are not illegal. If you don't want people to visit your site, your best course of action is not to have a site.
            • Most hosting setups I've seen have bandwidth limits; once you go over your monthly allowance, that's it. It's a pain if your site is a storefront, but if it's just a personal "look what I did" site like the subject of this article seems to be, it's good for preventing you from any unforseen expense due to someone linking you to Slashdot.
              • Most hosting setups I've seen are the opposite. Once you go over, you get charges per mb/gb.
                • That sucks. Don't some of them just cut it off, or allow that as an option? I just have a simple (free) Tripod account, and once that hits the limit they cut it off.

        • Re:damn! (Score:1, Interesting)

          by Anonymous Coward
          I don't think that is a fair way of looking at the issue.

          It's much like saying not to feel bad for someone who got shot to death because they should have been wearing a bullet proof vest, that is, on the off hand chance that they may come in contact with an armed mad man while going through their daily routine.

          Or the newly wed couple who both get killed in a car crash while driving to their honeymoon destination. It was their own fault for not wearing helmets and 5 point seatbelts in their car.

          I know the
          • It isn't that they're extremes. It's that they're not very good analogies. A more appropriate analogy would be something like:

            "...the newly wed couple who both get killed in a car crash because the tires on their car are bald and blow out at high speed and they aren't wearing any seatbelts..."

            The precautions mentioned aren't extraordianry, beyond the pale measures. They're basic precautions that everyone should use, like making sure your tires have tread and wearing the factory installed seatbelt. If

    • Heres a mirror,seeing as the servers up in flames (Score:4, Informative)

      by pigscanfly.ca ( 664381 ) on Sunday May 02, 2004 @12:44AM (#9031976) Homepage
      For the badgerpacking website , here's a mirror [demonmoo.com]
      :-)

  • appropriate footer quote (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:03PM (#9031171)
    "Micro Credo: Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift."

  • Not bad.. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by cmacmanus ( 713176 ) * on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:04PM (#9031173) Homepage
    ..until you have to plug it in, therefore reducing the "mobility". :)

    Wardriving has a new look, eh?

  • Hmmm.... (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by c0dedude ( 587568 )
    You post no info from the site. The site's name is badgerpackaging.com What did you think was going to happen, editors?

  • Linky (Score:4, Funny)

    by Killjoy_NL ( 719667 ) <slashdot@@@remco...palli...nl> on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:06PM (#9031185)
    Too bad the site's down.

    Here's the Google cache
    http://www.google.nl/search?q=cache:TDZhSyH l34AJ:w ww.badgerpackaging.com/heavymetal/+&hl=nl

    Sorry I can't make a clicky link, I'm not that handy with this stuff

  • Modding scene my hiney (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:09PM (#9031204)
    During that upgrade period, the modding scene began to unfold.

    Oh puh-leeze. Okay, so I'll admit, there are cool, tasteful, artistic PC case mods, like this one [eugenesargent.com]. But most case mods are just plain vulgar, with brightly colored leds all over the place, bits of things that don't go together visually but are supposed to look "fast", or "powerful" etc..., are ugly and frankly are the computer equivalent of that [riceboypage.com].

    Real good case mods are not many.
    • In the context of this particular case mod your post is actually rather amusing.

      KFG
    • so that beige box sitting next to you is 'artistic'?

      i did 'mods' on cars when i was younger, now i do mods on my pc. it's not all that different. for me at least, it's more about stepping away from the monitor and doing something with my hands--it may look like crap to you, but i think the mods look pretty damn nice. if nothing else, i get to play around with powertools and enjoy some sunshine. can't beat that, since i stare at a monitor 5 days of the week.

      and no, i didn't RTFA because it was /.ed, bu
    • I personally agree with you in the light department -- a lot of people stuff LEDs and lights into their case and think it looks cool. I personally find those mods to be gaudy and ugly, as I much prefer subtle aesthetics. Which is why I found it amusing that you denounced the "well-lit" variety of mod and pointed to the Eugene Sargent case as an example of a tasteful case -- IMHO it is ugly too, sort of like a misshapen blob of metal. But to each his own.

      Anyway, I also distinguish between two kinds of good
    • Oh puh-leeze. Okay, so I'll admit, there are cool, tasteful, artistic PC case mods, like this one [eugenesargent.com].

      I just looked at that "this one [eugenesargent.com]" of yours, and I think it's a pretty bitchin'-lookin' retro-stylin' PC case. True, I wouldn't have one of those in my own house, but if you've got a 1940's-1950's style house, with all kinds of old appliances (they don't make 'em like they used to), then this case would fit right in.

      are ugly and frankly are the computer equivalent of that [riceboypage.com].

      But I replied to you because I wanted

    • I'll be the first one to aggree that most case mods look dumb and ugly. They just show a colour cacophony of green PCBs, red PCBs, blue PCBs, copper heatsink there, aluminum over there, coloured cables, and some added leds to make the colour cacophony complete. It looks as artistic as a clown after a tragic makeup accident, or like a bomb attack on a paint factory.

      But... "fast"?? How in Odin's name do some ugly led fans and a blue lamp make a computer look fast? I'd really get depressed about some people's

  • I wonder what it could be (Score:4, Funny)

    by Reggie Ray ( 774745 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:10PM (#9031207)
    Not being able to see the pictures since the site was slashdoted, I wonder what the "Heavy Metal" computer on wheels could be? If the site gives any clue I think this "Heavy Metal Computer on Wheels" is nothing more than two dells taped toghether inside a shopping cart.
  • ...could we say that it "Crashed and burned?"

  • GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH (Score:5, Informative)

    by LiquidCoooled ( 634315 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:12PM (#9031226) Homepage Journal
    here [google.co.uk]

    This thing looks really cool!

  • A new meaning (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:15PM (#9031238)
    This gives new meaning to "I roxored your boxor", except that it is your own boxor that is doing the roxoring.

  • once you get it to load it's kinda stupid (Score:4, Insightful)

    by GoClick ( 775762 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:19PM (#9031247)
    I don't think this was worthy of a /. Probably a front page on a mod site but really it's not that great... Meh, unless you really like mods... lame ones.... Then don't bother loading it

  • think before you mod (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:20PM (#9031250)
    dear case modders, here are a few questions that you may want to consider before modifying your case.

    1) will modding my case make my computer fast, more capable, or "better" in any way?
    2) will it get me all the hot computer groupie chicks?
    3) if i cared about esthetics so much, wouldn't it have been more cost-effective to buy a mac?
    4) can my quasi-artistic needs be channeled into better projects?
    5) will other people think about me the same as they do when they see a guy driving a civic with a huge wing and fartcan exhaust?
    6) is modding my case really just a desparate cry for attention?
    7) ???
    8) profit!

    regards,
    Anonymous Coward
    • Think of how much better mod_geeks would do in their careers if they spent as much time making themselves look good as their computers?

    • Re:think before you mod (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:43PM (#9031351)
      Have you ever done anything to suit your own personal desires, like paint a house or make a model or choose the colour of something? Did you think about how many hot chicks it would get you at the time?

      I didn't know wanting to be creative, express yourself or be different was something that needed to be rationised with logic before you did it....

      Unless you are a Vulcan. ;)

      Regards,
      g@z.
    • 1) will modding my case make my computer fast, more capable, or "better" in any way?
      No, probably not
      2) will it get me all the hot computer groupie chicks?
      Again, no, unlikely
      3) if i cared about esthetics so much, wouldn't it have been more cost-effective to buy a mac?
      I don't know, unless you can point me to an x86 machine made by Apple?
      4) can my quasi-artistic needs be channeled into better projects?
      Almost certainly
      5) will other people think about me the same as they do when they see a guy driv
      • 3) if i cared about esthetics so much, wouldn't it have been more cost-effective to buy a mac? I don't know, unless you can point me to an x86 machine made by Apple?

        Why do you need x86?

        • Nobody _needs_ it, but there's no point in moving to an inferior architecture that also happens to be more expensive.

          Inferior depending on the needs of each user of course.

    • Re:think before you mod (Score:4, Funny)

      by tvh2k ( 738947 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @10:19PM (#9031515)
      haha by reading your subject I totally thought you meant "think before you mod[erate]", because /. users could use that lesson as well!
    • speak it on the mountain brother!
    • 1) will modding my case make my computer fast, more capable, or "better" in any way?

      How about think (or at least RTFA) before you post?

    • Re:think before you mod (Score:5, Insightful)

      by RollingThunder ( 88952 ) on Sunday May 02, 2004 @01:25AM (#9032088)
      Even though you're trolling (in a funny way), I'll answer you seriously. And this is from a guy who has no mods on his case, just a couple extra fans installed in premade locations.

      1) will modding my case make my computer fast, more capable, or "better" in any way?

      For some of them, yes. Airflow is usually a high concern in a mod. All the eye candy doesn't help performance, but good airflow can let you OC and/or get more life out of your gear as it's kept cooler.

      2) will it get me all the hot computer groupie chicks?

      Yes, because none is all of zero. ;)

      3) if i cared about esthetics so much, wouldn't it have been more cost-effective to buy a mac?

      Because esthetics isn't the whole of it. The joy is in the doing. It's a hobby, a project, something fun to do.

      4) can my quasi-artistic needs be channeled into better projects?

      Define "better". Art is subjective and "better" is in the eye of the doer. If the modder felt it would be "better" to paint a painting, he'd do that.

      5) will other people think about me the same as they do when they see a guy driving a civic with a huge wing and fartcan exhaust?

      Probably, but I suspect both people don't care what others think, as they're doing this for themselves.

      6) is modding my case really just a desparate cry for attention?

      No, as I said above it's a hobby, a pastime, and a project.
    • Interesting how this could be reapplied to the car modifyers with little change:

      1) will modding my Civic make my car fast, mor capable, or "better" in any way?
      2) will it get me all the hot Honda groupie chicks?
      3) if I cared about esthetics so much, wouldn't it have been more cost-effective to buy a Ferrari?
      4) can my quasi-artistic needs be channeled into better projects?
      5) will other people think about me the same as they do when they see a guy using a computer with a huge window and neon lights?
      6) is modd
    • if i cared about esthetics...

      This reminded me of my favorite line from the article (remember the article?):

      As it [modding] continued to evolve though,
      ascetics [emphasis added] seemed to come into play as a lot of people began doing their own home grown mods.

      Ascetics, eh? For a moment I had visions of starving yellow-robed monks painstakingly hand-painting mandalas onto the sides of their over-clocked PCs...

  • I call my Heavy Metal server. . . (Score:3, Funny)

    by kfg ( 145172 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:20PM (#9031252)
    Sam the mailman.

    There's a lot of lag in the system. It stalls and hangs for what feels like a month, but then once it gets working the actual throughput seems nearly instantaneuos despite the high graphical content, as it were.

    KFG

  • SkyNet (Score:5, Funny)

    by Chucklz ( 695313 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:32PM (#9031300)
    SkyNet is well on its way to operational status. Unfortunately, the server can only go as far as its power cord.

    I guess thats why it was /.'ed so quickly.

  • when i read the headline... (Score:4, Funny)

    by ambienceman ( 721763 ) <crazywolfeyes@yah o o . c om> on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:44PM (#9031357) Homepage
    I immediately though of a server packed to the rim with cool comics and illustrations of sexy leather-clad girls a la the magazine.

  • Heavy metal pc vs. Omnibot (Score:4, Funny)

    by dncsky1530 ( 711564 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:44PM (#9031359) Homepage
    it is still no match for Omnibot [mini-itx.com]

  • reminds me of a Jawa Crawler.... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by erwin ( 8773 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @09:44PM (#9031363)
    which would also be a great design. Even cooler if you could have some mini-rc satellite droids (w/ video&audio telemetry) that could come be controlled from the PC. Then, to be able to control the whole thing from the web....

    Sounds like my new summer project...

  • This is cool! I've always wanted an easy way to download heavy metals. Let me go get some uranium now.

  • This is old news he was on The Screen Savers (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    James Anderson demoed showed off the case mode on September 26th of last year on The Screen Savers.
    Here is the link to the sotry http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/shownotes/story /0,24330,3526645,00.html

    • direct link (Score:3, Informative)

      by gregfortune ( 313889 )
      Direct Link [techtv.com]

      So, next time, type this in instead...

      Here is a <a href="http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/shownotes /story/0,24330,3526645,00.html">link</a> to the story. See the url in the quotes? Just change that for your next link...

  • not what i expected (Score:4, Funny)

    by discogravy ( 455376 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @10:19PM (#9031516) Homepage
    i was hoping for a machine that did nothing but play judas priest, iron maiden and NWOBHM stuff.

  • Woah, DejaVu (Score:3, Interesting)

    by iLL_L0gic ( 607165 ) on Saturday May 01, 2004 @10:38PM (#9031571)
    My boss was looking at Laser cutting machines today (he's an engraver on the side), and I told him to check out the VersaLaser that they gave away for the Screen Savers Case Mod Contest. Well, when I was searching TechTV, I stumbled accross a video of this beast. So I tracked down the website and was showing it to my boss for about a half hour. Needless to say, I come back 4 hours later and find the darn thing on the front page of Slashdot! I'm glad I got to look while it was still up. :-)
  • I thought it meant something like Plutonium or Uranium: Glows in the Dark, too!
  • I don't think they made any attempt to install the Loknar [imdb.com].
  • fuck that, I want to put a computer in a case that looks like a MadCat mkII.

    I just need about 89 more tons of steel and components.

  • White Box Robotics (Score:3, Interesting)

    by feelyoda ( 622366 ) on Sunday May 02, 2004 @12:17AM (#9031899) Homepage
    this reminds me a lot of another company, for consumer PC applications:
    White Box Robotics
    http://www.whiteboxrobotics.com/
  • the heavy thing has sunken. At least, I hope it's stainless...

  • This was the rig of the month in Maximum PC magazine 6+ months ago.
  • Spammers! Now, when the police come banging on their door, their spam server can run one way and the spammer can run the other. Then they can meet up at the rendesvous point. And, if the boxen are running OS X they will automatically detect the rendesvous point too!

  • Great machine... (Score:2, Informative)

    by FunkyStickman ( 776238 )
    This machine was actually completed over 6 months ago. Yes, it exists, you can track it's progress on the 2CPU.com [2cpu.com] Forums. Make sure to bookmark the site, once it's back up it will be well worth a visit. I don't think Corrugated [2cpu.com] will mind the extra attention. For now, you can read the thread HERE [2cpu.com] and see some of the specs on it (and people's reactions). No pics, as they're linked to the same poor server. The original thread is HERE [2cpu.com]. It has a handmade aluminum chassis, wing, go-kart wheels (the racing kin

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