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Sorry its being so long, had lots of interview for industrial placemetns for my degree.

I have now started building a case for my miniPC out of an old biscuit tin!:D I'll take pictures when I can and link them from my website as before. Again thanks to all for the help and good work on DSL.

P.S.: Hows everyone elses mini-itx based machines going?

LATEST NEWS!:
I have managed to make the power supply emit smoke (despite it seeming to have enough insulation bettwen it and the case). SO I fear I may have blown up my miniPC! :( I will try to get another (normal) power supply to see if I haven't fried the motherboard as well!  ??? If the whole PC is fried then DSL will have to be moved to my old PII 400 MHZ system. (wish I had splashed out another +£100 on a new case)
Quote (libretto @ Mar. 31 2004,07:04)
P.S.: Hows everyone elses mini-itx based machines going?

Well, since you asked... Slowly. Still trying to come up with an actual use for the darned thing. So far, all I can come up with is to make a little file server for my home network.

Still tossing around case ideas. I'm half leaning towards something like this. The problem is (in the movie) that thing is over six feet tall, so it'd kind of be wrong for me to make a little bitty desktop one...

I've also learned (not to very much surprise) that the M10k sucks for Folding At Home. Slower than the 400MHz K6-2 it replaced...
PHEW! It was just the power supply that suffered damage. I have appeared to knock out the +5V power rail. So it may be repairable, otherwise the miniPC still lives! :)  It did make me think that I should have spent £120 on a proper case (:S)

Not sure what folding is (no doubt you let me know), but I find the M10k fast enough for everything else I want to do with it. Anyhow, I was thinking of making a small file server with it as well. May even have it as an media player for the hifi:;):

If you do your own case, make sure you have enough insulation to the bottom of all boards!
Check out http://folding.stanford.edu/ for more information on Folding. Kinda like SETI@Home only researching stuff for humans :)

Glad things are okay and your miniPC survived.
rotten timeouts and double posting. Sorry y'all
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