PC In An XP Box 296
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."
PC Mods.... (Score:1, Interesting)
Next on Slashdot, a PC mounted in Sun External CD-ROM?
That's not a small computer, THIS is a small... (Score:5, Interesting)
Take a look at this picture [mini-itx.com] and the cat. Now look at your desktop PC and imagine a cat standing next to it. The nanode really is that small.
I want one.
The site with the rest of the info is here [mini-itx.com].
D.
FedEx box (Score:5, Interesting)
One substantial difference is that I used only the cardboard box itself as a mounting infrastructure; I didn't build a little case and then wrap the Windows or Linux box around it, like this does.
"Too many users" (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Wow! (Score:1, Interesting)
Even all of the companies I have worked for kept real copies in the tape safe with the lost PFY trainee, and use burned stuff.
Hot Rodding continued (Score:4, Interesting)
Some are interested purely in performance.
Of those, there are the straight line speed freaks, tight cornering freaks, altogethering racing freaks...etc.
Some are interested only the aesthetics of the car. Neon, bouncing and turning the trunk into a giant subwoofer.
Off in another corner, you've got those who are cooking food ontop of their engines, putting real aviation wings (to fly), turning the car into an amphibious vehicle, sitcking incredibly weird looking chasis on a vehicle frame.
With someone sticking a computer inside a software box, it certainly looks like computers have made it to the same level that automobiles have in the minds of people.
Recursive PC boxen (Score:1, Interesting)
All the working bits are crammed into the PSU, the rest of the case just has a disco ball in it. Pretty neat case to have sitting on the desk with the side panel off.
Re:And the point of this is? (Score:3, Interesting)
Now that is an intuitive bootloader "menu."
If you built one of these into a cube, you could colour the sides differently and boot a different OS depending on which side of the cube is facing the top!
*tilt* Windows *tilt* Linux *tilt* BSD... now if only you could do that at runtime as well. :-)
Re:Get the legal unboxed OEM version (Score:4, Interesting)
Even if you can't find the OEMs who will sell it with "any hardware", considering that the OEM price of XP home is in the $80 range, if you did have to buy it with a CPU or Hard drive, you could still buy am OEM version with low end hardware for a lot less than you would have to pay for the retail box version of XP home with no hardware (not that Bill is over charging or anything). Given the option, I would take a "free" CPU or hard drive to save some money.
However, you have pointed out one cookie-cutter license posted by Microsoft. It's well known that they write individual OEM aggrements with many if not most resellers, and the terms of these licenses are generally not made public. Since the terms of private agreements between Microsoft and their OEM are not public, I can not know them and I cartainly cannot be held to terms kept secret from me. So if I buy an OEM product from a Microsoft reseller in good faith, I certainly have every right to use it. And I have to believe that Microsoft is condoning the selling of such products that they supply, even if they hold other vendors to different standards. As you say, The "nonperipheral computer hardware component" is a bit vague, but Microsoft is the one who wrote it and made it vague. You know it's happening (you say as much), and Microsoft knows it's happening. In any case, the end user is in the clear, so paying a lot more for the retail box of XP is a move that only puts more money in the Microsoft war chest.
Re:My first thought from reading the headline: Huh (Score:5, Interesting)
Of course, literate geeks should know that paper ignites at Fahrenheit 451 [gradesaver.com], (233 C).
Re:My first thought from reading the headline: Huh (Score:3, Interesting)
You should definately be modded up for that.. I totally forgot about that book.
I believe my motherboard is set to shutdown if it reaches 110C... so I'd have no problem making an origami computer case.