Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I’m too freakin’ busy with school and work right now 
Hopefully, life will slow down soon.
Speaking of school, it’s going great: I just finished my first class and received a B (if you know anything about my high school days, that’s like 37 A’s)!! So far, classes have just been on theory, but I’m liking them a lot! Other then that, I feel like I’m drowning in my work load - between it being the “busy season” at work, homework from school and the life with the girls, I feel like I have zero free time (and sanity is quickly fleeting).
As some of you know, I have been using Linux lately - I started with Ubuntu and now I’m trying LinuxMint, it’s pretty cool but it might be “too Windows”…. We’ll see, Gutsy Gibbon just came out and I really want to try it so I might be reformatting that partition soon. Mean while, I haven’t booted Vista in over 3 months and I have to keep XP for work (I know I could run XP virtually, but who’s got time for that? 
). For those keeping count: I’m multi-booting 3 OS’s on my machine. Saman=Geek.
Mineral Oil Submerged Computer Construction Video
Anyway, lately I have been talking about building a Mineral Oil Submerged Computer. This isn’t me in this video, but the guys from Puget Custom Computers. They’re the inspiration behind all of this. I thought it would be a great pet project and now I’m thinking about building a Media Center PC since I stumbled onto LinuxMCE. After watching the great 25 minute demo video (below), I’m blown away!!
LinuxMCE 0704 Demo Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2176025602905109829
Now I haven’t mentioned any of this to my wife yet but I plan on starting this project around Christmas (and maybe, one day, I’ll get around to building my carputer). Just imagine: You walk into our house and see this great aquarium (rocks, scuba diver and all) and realize there is PC hardware where the should be fish! Not to mention that that computer can be controlled from my iPhone (which I don’t have yet, but I’m sure that one of you will be buying me before my upcoming birthday)!! So, if anyone has some spare computer parts that they’d like to donate, contact me and I’ll be more then happy to spread some Page Rank 5 love your way!
So that’s all for now, I need to get back to my research paper but rest assured that I’m just as geeky as always (and maybe more so). I realize that this was more of me rambling then an actual post and I apologize if I jumped around a bit (welcome to life in my head)….
I would help you, but sending you the computer parts would be too expensive!
I’m guessing w’ere on the same boat right now
I’ve posted like twice in the last month because of school :S and plenty of midterms are coming up too… lol.
Interesting computer…what would be the purpose of it? Good luck with your clasees!
For this computer, it would be a media center pc (DVR, DVD, TV, Home Automation, etc) and the whole aquarium thing would just be to see if I could pull it off - and as a pet project/hobbie/conversation starter.
Oh ok…sounds cool. Good luck with your project.
Hi Saman, I read your article about speedlinking where you mentioned that youare looking for people to get involved with your site. I could offer you a google hack that finds music online through the indexes. I don’t know if you can post a google hack, if it’s legal, if it’s dangerous, etc. It’s just a tool that I use to find music online.
Danatello
Thanks for the offer, but I’d rather not post anything illegal!
cool I just noticed the linux paragraph
I’ve actually started to try linux too, just recently. I tried before but gave up. I guess I didn’t really see a point in it. But now I’m determined to stick with it since I’ll probably need it in the future at some point, or at least it will be useful 
Installed Gutsy Gibbon but i had so many problems installing (which may just have been bad luck) that I just went with OpenSUSE 10.3. Both ubuntu and opensuse I heard are good for beginners… as well as fedora i think.
Problems, really? I’ve installed LinuxMint (an Ubuntu derivative) and Gutsy without issues…. Weird!
yeah… first i think some sectors in my hard drive are corrupt, so i couldn’t resize. then boot loader didn’t install (i tried installing it into a seperate /boot partition), then it installed but ubuntu wouldn’t load (i think this was a problem with boot file in windows), then i re-installed again and ubuntu loaded but turned into a black screen (this turns out to be an unsupported video card driver problem). And also using the live cd my wireless wouldn’t work (unsupported wireless card driver problem)
so really none of them are ubuntu’s fault
I eventually forced partitioned, installed OpenSUSE 10.3 which installed the boot loader properly and both the problematic drivers are supported… so yeah.
i’m getting a new laptop though so i’m planning on triple booting this one to ubuntu, xp, and gentoo, and double-booting the new one with vista and OpenSUSE
That’s is a pretty hard core plan - that’s a lot of OS’s to be multi-booting!! More power to you though, learn as much as you can about each one!
Good to see you posting about Linux. I have been waiting for you to test and write, so I can see what you are up to doing. Make an ongoing series for your Linux experience.
PS - The bubble are the best part of the Puget video. Too bad you can’t have fish.
Sounds great! will keep an eye on your updates on this post!
Are these oil submerged computers safe? What’s the idea behind it? What do they achieve by doing it? Just being geeky, Samanthon?
The idea is heat dissipation, so you can over clock - and it looks cool!
that mineral oil computer is pretty sweet, huh
i dont know about the linuxMCE
i guess its just not for me 
If you haven’t already joined, there is a place for us Geeks/Nerds, geeks.pirillo.com , which is an actual community of like-minded nerds/geex. We kind of compete for points,(which, like in the TV show Who’s line is it anyway, don’t matter) and we share what geeky things we encounter. I’ve already posted a link to some of your stuff, but I think you’d really like the site and it doesn’t take up much time. It’s a great place to meet people of all ages and mindsets, without encountering the ‘fringe element’.