I have absolutely no useful pictures. The PC case mod worked out well, and the new owner of the case and its goods has had the goods for over a month. I am terrible at updating this page.
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I came across Cleverbot.com, a site that lets you have a conversation with a computer. Here’s my transcript. Have a chat and let me know how it goes.
I’ve been “modding” computer cases for a bit, and this is a simple one. It’s for a good friend, so I’m trying to do a pretty good job given that I have to cut and paint outside. The case started off being a plain, beige case. One cool thing I noticed is that it has four green LEDs which light up both a circle around the power button and a circle around the reset button. I used automotive tail light tint to darken those to be nearly black, and I painted the area around it black as well. The façade is red and black, and the rest of the case is clear coated truck bed liner.
I am going to build a file server to hold a large database for tens of thousands of customers. It won’t be accessed often, so it doesn’t need much power. However, it does need a lot of space for tens of thousands of scanned forms that need to be attached to customer entries and available for faxing at any time.
To make a cardboard box PC is tough. With a “regular” computer case you can get off a store shelf, there’s not much but assembly of other components inside the case. When the opportunity comes around to tear apart an extremely undersized mATX HP computer case with a removable motherboard tray, it may strike you that you’ve found a standard mATX motherboard tray that can fit anywhere.
It’s true. I can’t imagine why I’d particularly like a broken bookshelf.
I used to have Drupal, but it crashed. There was a database error, and I thought I’d start over really fresh with WordPress. I’ll now catch up on a lot of the posts I had, but I really wish I had backed up the most recent iteration of TheRadomir.com. I have another backup, but it’s just not the same. It feels good to start from scratch every now and then.