Thursday, September 14, 2006

Linux Podcast

I've been busy latley, with school and trying to set up a work area to tinker in; but i did manage to find a new podcast this morning. Linux reality is a podcast designed for new users. I'm listening to get some insight, the last time I tried to install linux was gentoo (power user, sure!) and it took me 3 days, I still couldn't figure out some things and couldn't do it again without the walkthrough! So this will help me find the right distro and get some use out of it.

Saturday, August 05, 2006

My first case mod

Putting this 120mm fan in and cleaning up the tangled mess of wires was a snap; except for my drill. I was a crappy one and I ended up having to finish the hole with sheet metal cutters :P. Oh well, I plan on adding a window there someday.
Tangled mess of wiresDust covered fan
Clean and tidy wiresFinished product
Close up of fan
Posted by Picasa and manual table editing by me. No, I'm not bitter.

HP case mod

This was the painting process, I set up 2 120 mm fans on the side, I may instal an outlet on the other side by the HDD one I get an enclosure for them.
Original frontOriginal side; I love the way this case opensThe guts!Spraypaint! top and right side
Misc front piecesLong shot ;)DVD drive faceFront bottom
Painting stripeBack of caseFront stripeHandle
DoorSlot covers
Painting the stripe clean wasa a pain in the ass. I eventually bought model paint and did it by hand.