my geeky project

[solipsistnation]

This is the project I've been semi-secretly working on.

For people who like numbers and models, it's a Shuttle SN45G with an Athlon XP 3000+ (2.1GHz) CPU. It's got a 400MHz CPU bus and a 400MHz memory bus. It's got 1GB PC3200 RAM. It's got a 120GB hard disk and some kind of generic DVD-ROM drive. It's also got a Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB 8xAGP card and a wireless card. I then take all this crap and run Windows XP on it, so I can play video games. And, uh, that's it. Should play Half-Life 2 and Thief III and all those real good, once they ship.

To paraphrase: "I wish I could say this was the geekiest thing I'd done. Today."

Comments

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

What kind of dork buys a Shuttle case and mods it?

Clearly a dork who doesn't procrastinate, because I haven't gotten around to modding mine yet...

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

I have a spare window the right size (although the edges are pretty ugly, but the gasket covers that) if you don't feel like cutting your own.

I will also happily give you the heinous chemicals required to paint aluminum if you feel like it, 'cause, damn, I don't want them around the house.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware that "semi-secretly" connoted "look, everybody! I'm doing this!" - I must have been using the root word entirely wrong all these years. a tragic blunder for a professional writer to make... :)

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Well, I never came out and said it here, although I did on IRC...

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Erm, yes you did. here and in a bunch of posts after that.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Oh, so I did. Oh well. So much for my memory.

[jon3.livejournal.com]

Don't they come in that color?

If I was gonna paint a case, I'd go for something crazy.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

These don't, or at least not the whole thing. Anyway, I like blue...

[jon3.livejournal.com]

Hey, is that power switch standard? Looks easy to find, tho I suppose it could be tripped accidentally pretty easy.

(you know, right when you're killing me in hl2!)

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

The actual power switch is the larger of the two buttons on the front, and it's a software button, really.

The big switch on the back turns the lights on and off. 8)

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

As a disgruntled EE, I offer you this advice: never trust a software button. If it don't need an occasional cleaning, it ain't a switch, I reckon.

[friode.livejournal.com]

Does the window fuck up the faradaycageness that you want in order to meet the FCC emissions requirements, etc?

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

I dunno, actually.

They seem to be no longer cracking down on that, considering the number of plexiglas or otherwise wide-open cases I've seen around.

[friode.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression that if you sell a computer, it has to meet the FCC requirements. If you sell a case, there's no way to test that by itself for whether it meets the FCC requirements, and so you don't have to do that testing to sell just a case.

[cdr.livejournal.com]

I wish I had some blue lights inside me

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

I have spares I'd be happy to donate to little servers who have been very very good.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

you are so sexy!

I need you NOW!

:)

actually, I like blue, too. mrow!

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Having this as the last comment just made this whole thing surreal.

That'd be an interesting fetish - case-modding.