Been a while…
It’s been a while since I updated this page, as I’ve been too busy playing with my new toy Earthquake. I got the trim for the last mod (heh!) to this machine, some fan duct trim from CaseEtc. Tonight I’m going to cut…
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Headcrash Weekend Update
I tore apart Headcrash over the weekend because I was sick of Windows NT and was looking for something new to do. Since I’m planning on getting my Win2k MSCE I decided to make it a Windows 2000 Server. After fighting with…
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Current HX08 mods for Headcash
The mods on the Aopen HX08 are pretty standard, as this was my first case, and consist of the following: One 120mm chimney fan sucking air out of top. One 120mm ducted fan in bezel in lower front blowing air into the…
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Headcrash Background
I had a file server that had basically outgrown its case and was looking for a bigger, full tower case. I’d recently picked up the case modding bug and was looking for a good solid case with good cooling possibilities,…
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Earthquake Assembly
Set up Earthquake‘s hardware over the weekend, which included stealing components from Plague, my trusty PC for quite a while. Set up scratch installations of Win98 and Win2k Pro on the machine and ended up with a 1 frame-per-second difference using Quake3Arena’s…
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More parts and wiring modifications for Earthquake
My BayBus arrived today. I decided to order a BayBus from PCmods instead of building my own. After thinking about it for a bit, I realized that each DPDT switch cost 5 bucks and the BayBus cost 20 bucks with four switches. I save…
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More Earthquake case design
I’ve been working on the case this week. Working with fresh cut metal minus gloves equals tiny little slashes all over my fingertips. At any rate, I think I’m going to try a little experiment with my case. My current…
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Twilight 2000 to Aftermath conversion
For shitz and giggles we’ve switched game systems from Twilight 2000 to the Aftermath! set of rules by Fantasy Games Unlimited. I’ve always felt that Aftermath was one of the best skills-based RPGs out there and has a combat system that…
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Earthquake Gear Arrives
I’ve collected all my gear and it’s sitting in a juicy collection of boxes in my laundry room, waiting to be assembled. In going through the layout and setup it looks like the 90 degree 4″ elbow join that I…
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A PC named Earthquake
Earthquake is my principal tweak-toy, digital audio workstation and game player. I know that everyone at AudioForums would flame that you aren’t supposed to have anything but DAW stuff on a PC that will be recording audio, but oh well. I will be…
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