Icy-Flo - The solution to this summer's heat

Steve Kerrison writes "Desperate times call for desperate measures, but I'd like to think of this as more of an exercise in cunning. It's hot, but I'm not, thanks to an Icy-Box and a Panaflo. This was nearly categorised as hardware hacking, but then the only 'hacking' required was the removal of four thumb-screws."

Go To Hell...

[jkrise]

That's a better solution to this summer's heat... with Vista and DNF REALLY REALLY likely to get shipped soon, it should be quite cool in Hell.

Impressive

[digitalhermit]

Wow.. He took a case fan and powered it from a, uh, power supply. But that's not all that impressive. One time, at band camp, I attached a CD-ROM drive and used power from *ANOTHER* power supply sitting in a *DIFFERENT* machine. And once, at a hacker convention (well, at my friend's house really), we super-hacked a a PS2 mouse to work with a USB interface by using an adapter we rigged (well, it came with the mouse actually).

article dead already

[bobamu]

So I have to guess the other comments.

He attached a fan to an electrical supply?

All I can say is, as an article, that blows.

OMG Net Neutrality!

[Anonymous Coward]

Either we slashdotted the page or they didn't pay the ISPs premium-access fee.

Real Men...

[Curious Yellow 82]

...would use a superfluid [wikipedia.org] to keep themselves cool. They would also draw upon inspiration to explain the birth of the universe [slashdot.org] from it.

Alternatively, I could say, "on another hot summer's day where there was absolutely nothing newsworthy, /. decides to publish something that was born of a jobless geek's attempt to soothe his fevered brow while entertaining himself watching pornography."

/. effect

[Presidential]

Okay, here we see uncontested evidence that the /. effect overheats computers. Er, it overheats computers whose fans have been removed by their owners to cool their own paltry 98.6F down a degree or two, completely ignoring the smoking machine whose processor just jumped to that magical 170F.

I can't even RTFA on this one.

Should have saved the fan

[advocate_one]

for that poor little server...

This reminds me

[iogan]

of this [bbspot.com] fine article..

Re:OMG Net Neutrality!

[GuidoJ]

Or we just found where he took the fan from ...

PS:

[I Like Pudding]

I tagged this one "pseudozonk"

Refresh?

[Vo0k]

The hack seems really simple:
"Please try again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser."

I did, but I don't feel more refreshed really. What am I doing wrong?

Re:IDGI

[I Like Pudding]

Take it at face value folks

So, retarded then?

Simplicity of design...

[gedeco]

...is a trademark of real genius.

This guy has made a trademark violation.

Blows? Maybe...

[demongeek]

But if he connected the fan to a power inverter, would that make the article suck?

Re:And the news drought continues....

[harrkev]

Tomorrow's news: A guy figures out how to use a wall-wart power supply, thereby avoiding spinning a hard drive and decreasing the heat in the room even more.

In next week's news: A guy puts a cup of ice in front of the fan for even more X-treme cooling. You have to use the "X-treme" because it points out how really radical this idea is.

Ok, /.. You just took five minutes of my life. I want it back! I even had to go to Mirrordot to see this bit of moronic stupidity.

Re:Should have saved the fan

[Jac_no_k]

and the e-mail server. "An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem persists." I wonder if every failure has sent off a message.

Re:news? WTF?

[Dugsmyname]

The point... There is no point... Next.

Stupidest Article I've read on Slashdot yet

[noc007]

Granted, there are some stupid articles that make their way through the approval process, but this one takes the cake. Many people before this guy, including myself, have done something similar to get some air moving with parts laying around and not have to make a trip to WallyWorld (WalMart) to buy a fan. However up to this point, no one has had the audacity to post up something this stupid.

Damn it. I want my click back.

Re:IDGI

[flumps]

There seems to have been a problem with the database.
Please try again by clicking the Refresh [slashdot.org] button in your web browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff [mailto], whom you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Oops does that mean when I pushed refresh 1000 times they'll get 1000 emails?

Heheheh.

*clickclickclickclick*

Dumbest. Story. Ever.

[smithmc]

In other news, man quenches thirst by filling cup with water, then pouring water into mouth.