The Timeka Box

In an earnest effort to support the pissed off pussy and FM/2 Publications I built a computer for a really great person. We went to Fry’s and picked up a Taiwanese chassis with front-panel connections for audio, FireWire and USB:

I quickly discovered that my old-ass ABIT KT7A RAID motherboard, similar to the one recommended by the blokes at arstechnica.com (c. 2001) would not support these connectors without a fight. You see me here, with my pinky finger in a bandage holding the dual USB connector for the front panel:

And here we have a lovely floral arrangement of dual FireWire connections sprouting from the system unit:

So it appears that the experiment is to use cables from FRONTX.com to bypass the shortcomings designed into the motherboard. I have not yet tried this experiment and am concerned that any wrong move on my part could smoke the computer and inconvenience a really, really great asset of humanity. The cable shipments have arrived and the boxes are just sitting there… waiting…

So there is guy named Gabriel Torres and his article “Installing Frontal USB Ports” keeps provoking me to go for it. But you have no idea what it is like when the pissed off pussy is disappointed… so I hold back… waiting… (Insert famous Jaws theme music here.)

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