On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:00:49PM -0600, Bill Layer wrote: Send a mail to "Watchdog" at maximumpc. They do stories like "Consumer A bought thing b from company C and got screwed" then they do some poking around and make them look like fools in thier magazine. And since they hav e large readerbase it actually helps sometimes. Almost like "Fight Back" with David Horowitz from the 80's (kinda dating myself there huh) That show kicked ass, no surprise it didn't last though when you are hammering the very advertisers that pay your salary. >Arrgh! I picked up one of the translucent blue ATX cases (looks a little like >a MacG3) a few months back. It was missing the internal hardware, but I >figured it was no big deal - hardware is hardware. Here is a pic of the case: > >http://www.transnet-inc.com/CaseAquaBlue.html > >Well, it turns out that this case uses PROPRIETARY hardware, most annoyingly, >the mounting standoffs for the motherboard. Unless I can find a handful of >these 2-cent parts, this $100.00 case is going to be a doorstop (and I >already own plenty of those). I wrote the people at the above site, and they >responded with "Sorry, but we cannot sell them (the parts) to you". No >further explanation. > >Does anyone know where I can get enough of these standoffs to mount the >board? maybe from another builder that had extras? > >Or plan B - could someone suggest a good case from Tran / GNS that would be >suitable for a hardware hacker like me to build a Duron 700 system in? Will I >*need* a 300W supply? (I plan to u/g to a 1.2 or better T-bird in a year or >so...) > >P.S. Plan B sucks. > >-- >Bill Layer >Sales Technician ><b.layer at vikingelectronics.com> > >+----------------------------------+ > Viking Electronics, Inc. > 1531 Industrial St. > Hudson, WI. 54016 - U.S.A > 715.386.8861 ext. 210 > <http://www.vikingelectronics.com> >+----------------------------------+ > >"Telecom Solutions for the 21st Century" > Powered by Slackware Linux 7.1.0 > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.3951 Code Monkey Support (A.K.A. System Administrator) Key fingerprint = A69A 118D 710B 8EB0 DC3B D912 2F19 311A 02DD 1908 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20001207/60a459b4/attachment.pgp