PC In An XP Box

wolrahnaes writes "There is an article up on mini-itx.com explaining how to fit a fully functional PC based on a VIA M10000 EPIA board in to a Windows XP box. The author even explains how he then fit it in to a Red Hat box and used a sensor to tell the bootloader which OS to run based on which box it is in."

It's ironic...

[ralphb]

...that one of the most expensive component of the project is the box itself.

Now...

[Bishop, Martin]

Now I just have to find an OS/2 box...

Welcome

[jstrain]

to the wonderful world of people who have too much time on their hands!

FINALLY!

[PFactor]

A Windows XP box worth the retail price!

Monopoly

[kettch]

Microsoft will definitely get into trouble when they start bundling computers with purchases of Windows.

deary me

[slayer99]

"Windows XP Box" By Andy France - Posted on 1 December 2003

Slashdot: Always first with the news ;)

Wow!

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad most Slashdotters who use XP won't actually HAVE an XP box...

Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

So, Bob, what did you do this weekend?

Oh, you know, barbeque with the friends, fucked the wife, usual stuff. You?

The usual, drank a bunch of jolt, wacked off in the basement to anime and wrote an article about a useless PC mod.

bah

[Dreadlord]

Yawn, that's nothing, wake me up when they manage to get a working PC with Windows in it.

Two Words:

[Bingo Foo]

"Recycle Bin."

*Waits in the shadows*

[-kertrats-]

I'm waiting for someone who hasn't RTFA to come out trying to make some 'yes, but does it run linux?' joke. Come on, /., don't fail me now...

Re:PC in an Xbox?

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought an xbox WAS just a pc in a box.... or am I missing something here..

Yup, you're missing reading the headline, reading the article description, and reading the article.

Pretty good effort all up!

Re:deary me

[old7]

And the second, too.

Re:Welcome

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but we call it "slashdot" for short ;)

When the SCO guys come

[amigoro]

When the SCO guys come to find you, just show them the box and says it runs XP.

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in other news...

[Chuck Bucket]

still no cure for cancer.

seriously, wouldn't time be better spent on other, more worthwhile projects than building a computer in a box?

CB

Re:It's ironic...

[Anonymous Coward]

no the most expensive part was forgoing a girlfriend.

this costs us geeks dearly.

if we don't procreate...who will be the geeks of tomorrow?

Re:Some pepole have...

[Neil Blender]

TO MUCH time on there hands...

You must be very busy, what with the nine word post that has three mistakes in it.

Re:That's not a small computer, THIS is a small...

[crackshoe]

little did you know that that is, in fact, a giant cat of death. they just pu a fake nanode case around a minivan.

*yawn*

[Lane.exe]

When he packs a Mac into an apple, let me know.

Re:*Waits in the shadows*

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but does it run linux?

(Did I say that outloud?)

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad the guys with Jolt, anime, and useless PC mods are the ones powering the next generation.

Although they like to think so, this isn't true.

The ones whacking off to anime porn and making PC case mods aren't doing anything much other than fooling around. The ones truly powering the next generation are those who are fucking their wives and pitching to CEOs.

Re:Hmmm

[Cruciform]

If they keep whacking off in the basement to anime, the next generation isn't going to be around to power anything! :)

Re:*Waits in the shadows*

[simcop2387]

who cares about linux? does it run *BSD?

Suggestion for use of this mod

[Joey Patterson]

Use a box [funkyfresh.com] to build yourself a new box [slashdot.org] so you can run Box [sf.net] inside of Bochs [sf.net] on your box!

Re:Hmmm

[glwtta]

The ones truly powering the next generation are those who are fucking their wives and pitching to CEOs.

Actually, its the ones pitching to CEOs and fucking their wives.

Re:What about...

[wintermute1974]

What if you put either box on it's side?

You get Lindows [lindows.com].

Re:What's next?

[ultramk]

What's next? Putting it in a carboard cut out of britney spears?

I guess the sad thing here is that this sounds really cool to me.

m-

Re:Hmmm

[ScottSpeaks!]

Personally I'd rather fuck the CEOs and get them to pitch their wives.

That's not all!

[One Louder]

If you put in a box labeled "Duke Nukem Forever" it travels to the distant future and surprises some eloi and morlocks.

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think of it as "who is powering which generation," but rather, "Who is doing all the hard work, and who is gathering the spoils?" So, all of the people who exert their brains and think hard and try to make some big accomplishment, hoping that recognition and fame and achievement will get them laid, well, the fact that they're trying so hard is pretty consistent with the fact that they aren't getting laid. Because if they were rich and powerful, and getting laid all the time, they wouldn't be trying so hard. It's like how when men get married, their creativity and drive and stuff dies. Almost as if their nuts have been ripped off, because that's often what marriage is, basically. So, in the end, let them have their deluded fantasies about going to college and studying hard, and being intellectually useful, and let them get their intellectual jobs where they're constantly trying to proove their worth, all the while making their 5-figure salary. Every so often, one of them comes up with something useful, and maybe gets rich off it. But for the other 99.5% (pulled from my posterior orifice), well, they just end up posting bitter resentful things on /. about how great they really are, if only people would notice, and consequently have sex with them.

Take it from me. I have a mathematics degree.

Yeah. It's sort of like how a certain percentage of the population of bees are just drones. They aren't there to reproduce, or anything. They're just there to work and do stuff for the queen or something (IANAB). And then they die, and the queen eats them, or something. And they never got to have sex. I don't even know if they have sex organs. Well, I think that techies and geeks and nerds and the guy whining about how great his contributions to society are like the drone bee. Except they happen to have sex organs as well (Maybe they're more productive that way).

So, let them have their "glory." Let them create fun little electronic gadgets for everyone to play with. We'll play with them, but we won't bother our heads with how they work, and all that. I'd rather just play with the electronic toys and fcuk hot chicks all the time. Wouldn't you?

Re:in other news...

[Dirtside]

seriously, wouldn't time be better spent on other, more worthwhile projects than building a computer in a box?

...said the guy posting on Slashdot.

Re:Way too much time on their hands...

[NanoGator]

"Is it just me, or do these guys have way too much time on their hands? I mean... what in the world do they hope to accomplish besides a (+5, HOLYSHIT) moderation?"

Is it just me, or do these guys have way too much time on their hands? I mean.. what in the world do they hope to accomplish besidse a (+5, Whoopdedoo_You_Pointed_Out_It_Isn't_A_BFD) moderation?

Re:Monopoly

[GigsVT]

Heh, they're already beta testing that, it's called the "Xbox" project.

Re:FedEx box

[tverbeek]

Duh. That's what I get for ./ing a work. I need to do it when I'm fully awake.

Re:*yawn*

[Kiryat Malachi]

No.

A Mac inside an apple. You know. The fruit?

Re:Now...

[Brandybuck]

I wish I still had mine. Unlike WinXP and Redhat boxes, OS/2 boxes were made with sturdy carboard, and not just a cardboard insert.

What scares me most

[JudgeFurious]

...is that computers are getting small enough for that goatse guy to do his own personal "case mod" and it's only a matter of time before we have the link.

Re:Wow!

[niktesla]

That reminds me of the OEM version of XP that I saw for sell in the Philippines. It was just a bag with the CD's and a "computer" consisting of one little screw.

He's got it backwards!

[unixdad]

From page 4 of the article: The problem now was that I ran the risk of accidentally booting Linux from the "Windows XP Box" or even worse, booting Windows from the "Linux Box". That would not be good. It needed to be fool proof.

He should have it set up so that it boots XP when the guts are in the Linux box, and boots Linux when it's in the XP box. That way he can wave his hand at the computer and say "That's my XP box that runs Linux", or "That's XP running in my Linux box" and confuse any local annoying computer know-it-alls (that don't).

So good...

[inertia187]

I like how the web designer changed the title from:

windows xp box

to:

windows xp box.. so good they slashdotted it twice...

Re:That's not a small computer, THIS is a small...

[Mateito]

> Take a look at this picture and the cat.

I was most disappointed to follow the link and discover that this guy hadn't actually managed to cram a working PC into a cat.