Borg Cube Case 325
Steelduck writes "A person nick-named Xor'Arch at the CaseJunkies forums has made an uber-cool case mod. A Borg cube based on a Via EPIA-M platform. The project took them 9 months, in which they spent 250 hours of their spare time. In total, they used about 60 meters of steel wire, and 1,5 m2 cardboard.The Borg Cube is presented at Casejunkies website.
http://www.casejunkies.com/index.php?upn=010001&hl _id=1873"
Photos are Archived Here (Score:5, Informative)
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" Op het moment wordt er aan onze database onderhoud gepleegd! Onze excuses voor het ongemak."
Wow, borg speak really does sound swedish!!
Re:Photos are Archived Here (Score:5, Informative)
That's Dutch.
At the moment our database is undergoing maintainance. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
JP
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"Om ett ogonblick kommer ni att integreras i vart kollektiv. Motstand ar meningslost."
Apologies ahead of time for lack of swedish ring- and umlaut characters.
Re:Photos are Archived Here (Score:2, Funny)
Damn those "Premium" subscribers, slashdotting a site before us masses can even get to it.
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Sweat side? (Score:5, Funny)
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And it'd wipe out any army in minutes!
Re:How to Defeat the Borg! (Score:3, Funny)
Better idea:
Someone will root them, install a warez/mp3 server and we send the RIAA after them.
I think Jeff Goldblum knows something about interstellar virus writing.
Residence is futile (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Residence is futile (Score:5, Funny)
Someone has to say it... (Score:4, Funny)
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Whoah! (Score:5, Funny)
Pretty neat. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Pretty neat. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pretty neat. (Score:3, Informative)
I can't find a site for him, but I bet there's one out there. Anyway, that kid does absolutely incredible stuff with paint and metal.
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lds
YES..... American Chopper (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pretty neat. (Score:2)
This one looks awesome though. I don't think I'd want one in my house but kudos to the creators!
Re:Pretty neat. (Score:3, Funny)
Leave. You do not belong here.
Just irresponsible... (Score:5, Insightful)
Not that anyone cares, though.
Re:Just irresponsible... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just irresponsible... (Score:5, Interesting)
Technically, all slashdottings are instances of a flash mob (or flash crowd).
flash crowd
Larry Niven's 1973 SF short story Flash Crowd predicted that one consequence of cheap teleportation would be huge crowds materializing almost instantly at the sites of interesting news stories. Twenty years later the term passed into common use on the Internet to describe exponential spikes in website or server usage when one passes a certain threshold of popular interest (what this does to the server may also be called slashdot effect). It has been pointed out that the effect was anticipated years earlier in Alfred Bester's 1956 The Stars My Destination.
Source: The Jargon File: flash crowd [catb.org]
In this case, /.ers are a flash mob and a swarm of Species 8472
Re:Just irresponsible... (Score:5, Informative)
Introduction
A couple of months ago, Xor'Arch posted some pictures of his new project on our forum. These first pictures created such a huge anxiety and hunger for more that we contacted Xor'Arch, and decided to keep the project a little bit secret. This way we could prepare ourselves for a worthy Caseview that this case absolutely deserves.
CaseJunkies proudly presents: Xor'Arch's Borg Cube.
We asked Xor'Arch how he came up with the whole idea. He explained that his Router had some problems with his ISP's Cable internet connection. He needed another way to provide his network with an internet connection. The only possible way was to implement an extra computer to share the internet connection, so the router would be unnecessary. Read on, and see how the project went from idea to reality.
[Inline picture] [casejunkies.com] [Mirror] [biggestpos.com]
Why Borg?
The plans for an extra PC, functioning as a router, firewall and download-machine were made long before I got the idea to make the Borg Cube. I first intended to use a small midi case (A-Open H340B) with a Via EPIA-M 933Mhz chipset and 256MB RAM memory. After having put it all together, I was not really satisfied with the way it looked. It looked kinda boring to me, and that's when I got the idea to build a case myself. Here's why I chose Borg to be the design's theme:
* To Route: Collective - A central point where everything comes together and gets sent out to multiple computers.
* Act as Firewall: To prevent hostile attempts to penetrate the system, and neutralize them.
* To Download: All your bytes will be assimilated...
* And, the Borg are just cool.....
Since I wanted the project to be 100% original, I searched the internet for similar projects. Fortunately none of them came close to what I planned to make. After having collected as many pictures and information as possible, which was harder than I first thought, I started the construction of the Borg Cube.
Re:Just irresponsible... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Safe Harbors for System Caching
A third safe harbor in the Act limits an OSP's liability for system caching, in which an OSP makes a temporary copy of popular Internet material requested by a User so that the OSP can deliver that copy to subsequent Users, which can be done more quickly and efficiently than obtaining the original material for each subsequent User.
This exemption appl
Re:Just irresponsible... (Score:5, Funny)
We have anaylzed your bandwidth and computing capabilities as being unable to withstand our attack. We will add your website to our growing list of sites that have been slashdotted. Resistence is futile.
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ports? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:ports? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ports? (Score:5, Funny)
It uses a new wireless technology: Borgtooth.
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Re:ports? (Score:4, Funny)
they used about 60 meters of steel wire
The last thing I'd call that case is 'wireless'!
Re:ports? (Score:5, Informative)
They're here. [biggestpos.com]
Impressive (Score:5, Funny)
Now only if I could hook up a Transwarp conduit for an Internet connection....
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The site is irrelivent (Score:5, Funny)
Should I be worried?
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I wish I knew (Score:5, Funny)
e.
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Careful, I think a more accurate button would be "Epia VIA motherboard users have smaller hardware than usual"
A lot of spare time (Score:4, Funny)
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Huey, Dewey, and Louie. No Google used. What do I win? =)
BTW, Silent Running is a seriously cool movie. They'd play it every so often on the Big Chuck and Little John show when I was a kid. As for Big Chuck and Little John...well, it's a Cleveland thing.
Bonus points to any Clevelanders out there as old or older than I who can name Big Chuck's previous guest host.
Re: A lot of spare time (Score:3, Insightful)
Which do you think is worse?
Re: A lot of spare time (Score:3, Funny)
We can't tell the guy to get a hobby, and we already know he doesn't have a life...
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Well, this guy does have spare time, and he's doing something he enjoys.
Why do we have to read this "this guy doesn't enjoy the same hobbies I do, so therefore he is wasting his time" nonsense every time anyone does anything? Get over yourself. Not everyone is interested in the same things you are.
You know... (Score:5, Funny)
You will be assimilated! (Score:5, Funny)
Trapper Keeper mod? (Score:4, Funny)
I'd be worried if someone made a Dawsons Creek Trapper Keeper mod :-)
Here's a link for you non South Park people. [tvtome.com]
You will (Score:5, Funny)
Holy smokes, that rocks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Holy smokes, that rocks (Score:5, Funny)
yes i really could -- there would be enough heat generated to cause Noah to build another ark.
in 250 hours you could have... (Score:5, Insightful)
- Seen 166 movies (at 90 minutes each)
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- driven from NY,NY to LA 5 times
- listened to 1/35064 of "Longplayer"
- watched 500 episodes of the simpsons, ~750 if you skipped the commercials.
- earned $1287.50 flipping burgers for minimum wage
Re:in 250 hours you could have... (Score:5, Funny)
Only obvious.... (Score:5, Funny)
We are the Borg! (Score:5, Funny)
Resistance is futile.
Are you Corn Fed? [ebay.com]
It's a dupe! (Score:2, Funny)
Options (Score:3, Funny)
Can you get this with the optional Temporal Vortex technology? You know, for restoring your system when you do an accidental rm -rf *?
How Picard could have taken out the Borg (Score:5, Funny)
Here's a Suggestion (Score:5, Interesting)
Better yet (Score:4, Interesting)
But even better, if he had run tubing all around the case, he could water cool it. The outer surface would make a great radiator even without a fan. Nice and silent.
Wonder how long... (Score:5, Funny)
Server is down? (Score:5, Funny)
Slash (and burn) dot! (Score:5, Funny)
Great! We've only just gotten through bringing the iPod story's server [ipodlounge.com] to its knees, and now we've trashed this site as well.
I just knew when I read the word, "Borg," that this would be the case. We geeks are too predictable.
All we need now is a "Natalie Portman enrolls in the CS department at Harvard" story, and the whole east coast will go black once again!
Re:Slash (and burn) dot! (Score:3, Funny)
that is just wrong!
Note to self... (Score:4, Funny)
Note to others: Upgrade the pipes and hardware. If you are paying $5.99 a year to your provider or hosting your cool stuff on your cable modem.
Anybody have any idea what the basic "sweet spot" is to hardware/softwatre/bandwidth needs in order to laugh back at the
Also -- I know this is off-subject, however since I can't seem to get to the actual content, I figured it was no big deal to venture off the path.
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Anybody have any idea what the basic "sweet spot" is to hardware/softwatre/bandwidth needs in order to laugh back at the /. effect -- and say keep bringin it boys.
I run our company's website [rlx.com] that has been linked to on slashdot a handful of times, and survived without any problems. The key was bandwidth--not hardware.
The web site is hosted on three Transmeta 633Mhz Server Blades [rlx.com] with 512MB RAM, and a 30GB laptop drive. These are connected through a firewall doing a custom load balancing scheme using iptables. Uplink from the firewall is to Level(3)'s network.
We pay for an average usage of 3Mbps but can burst to 100Mbps. The increase in bandwidth was short-lived enough that it only raised our bill slightly (less than $800--well worth the coverage!!).
So...in short, bandwidth is what matters. The hardware is nothing spectacular resource-wise.
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The machine is a 900Mhz Duron with 512MB RAM Running RHL. Nothing fancy, in fact most people have better desktops now.
The key seems to be a carefully configured Apache using in-memory caching where possible, generous "Expires" headers for caches, long keepalives, and having the server thrash as little as possible starting and stopping children. Even under the most extreme load the box tends to be responsive, and has impressed the hell out of me for doing so.
With cory moving from SSI-based pages to the DB-driven MT, it will be interesting to see exactly what happens to performance as his next /.-ing :)
The next big market? (Score:3, Interesting)
I want one!
Hopefully less than 200$ though...
Think about it, if he was able to use this case as the master, he could make tons of 'em without much additional effort... Maybe the fab costs would be high, but I bet he could pitch something this cool with such an intrinsic following to a corporate exec!
Well, this probably displays my ignorance of manufacturing... I have no idea if such an idea would be feasible. It looks like he put so much detail on the sides of the case, that it would be pretty hard to do that in a manufacturing process... I don't know though, anyone else familiar with this?
I don't get it (Score:5, Interesting)
But I don't understand spending all that time and attention to a really cool case, just to put a gutless MiniITX board in it..
I mean, for the space, you could easily put even a lower-end athlon or P4, 2 ghz or so.. They don't get unreasonably hot, and are easy enough to cool..
I just picture showing off my really cool case, and then my audience looking at the screen and seeing the latest Star Trek game at 640x480 running at about 2 fps..
It's kind of like spending a year making a totally sweet hot rod chassis, then sticking the engine from a pontiac firefly in it.
I just dont get it.
Re:I don't get it (Score:3, Informative)
The purpose of the box is to be a router/firewall. He doesn't need a a Athlon or P4 for that.
my question... (Score:4, Funny)
Why a cube? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why a cube? (Score:3, Funny)
Borg hive:
We are the borg, prepare to be assimi - whu?
Hey, somebody stop the sphere from rolling away!
As I was saying: prepare to be assimi - hey?
46 of 100! Stop the sphere from rolling.
46 of 100:
[unintelligible]
Borg hive:
No, we dont care. Get someone else to stand on the other side of the sphere!
And so on.
Not as impressive.
Again, it cannot be helped... (Score:5, Funny)
1) Web Server of Borg, prepare to be assimilated
2) Borg Cube? After a slashdotting, it's a Bork Cube
3) Hmmm, might as well be a gamecube now.
4) If a Borg Cube server runs WebSphere, what is the volume of the resulting geometry?
5) Ice Cube and Dre are suing for copyright infringements.
6) If it runs linux, will the admin be known as Cube Root?
Borg (Score:3, Funny)
at Wolf 359 they lost many ships, when in reality all the had to do is utilize the slashdot factor
I wonder if he has sound files... (Score:4, Funny)
Nothing but Love... (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, nice bit of model making and 15 minutes. (Score:3, Insightful)
That's a true bit of artistry. Kudos. As for a waste of time, what constructive thing have those stating it's a waste of time done with their last spare 250 hours? This guy at least has created something he likes, and gotten a good number of people to view and speak about.
He might even get more than his 15 minutes of pseudo fame out of it. Not shabby for a spare 250 hours of effort.
Appropriately Enough.. (Score:4, Funny)
250 hours... a perspective (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh, but we're all too cultured and intelligent to watch TV, right? My ass. There's too much pop culture knowledge represented here for me to believe that.
Okay, a few of us really don't watch TV. Okay, but 250 hours / 9 months is still less than an hour per day. How many of us can say we wasted less than an hour per day in this and other stupid forums? Is slashdot really more useful than doing creative projects?
I was on the receiving end of the "doesn't have a life" comments when my LEGO project was slashdotted. The most flippant of the comments came from those with 2900 posts showing in their user profiles on various forums. Wanna know what that looks like outside the cyberdork universe?
Amy
Size comparisons: (Score:5, Funny)
WARNINGS:
Slight spoilers for various sci-fi and skiffy series.
Bandwidth intensive graphics.
High geek level.
Link (Score:5, Informative)
Bah! (Score:3, Interesting)
Hmmm...mysql errors... (Score:3, Funny)
I knew the borg would get slashdot eventually. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I knew the borg would get slashdot eventually. (Score:2, Funny)
No one can resist a slasdotting, it is pointless indeed. Hand over all your servers to us.
Re:It's wasted! (Score:3, Funny)
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!!!
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