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My laptop fell off the table and the screen cracked. It still works, so I am still using it. I just disabled the touchscreen feature (not sure why a laptop needs it).
Oops.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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These make perfect home servers. I have such a laptop running Exchange at home handling all the family's email accounts. A bit underpowered for a server maybe, but they're quiet, small and even have a built in UPS in the event of a power cut.
And I just remote onto it when needed, because the screen is proper trashed.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I was soo close to setting mine up as a home server, but got distracted by having to complete paying dev work on it, using a standalone monitor. Then I eventually ended up giving it to a local barman when I bought a new one.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Brady Kelly wrote: giving it to a local barman
Went to a good cause then...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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What? Forgot to bring a coat?
Don't let that stop you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I had the same exact thought when I read the title.
Jeremy Falcon
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~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Depending on how new it is there are companys out there that sell new screens, but most people don't want to pay what it would cost for a new one.
Other option is to hook it up to a external monitor if it is broken bad enough.
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I've become the family 'laptop screen replacement expert'...
It's usually a fairly simple job, hardest bit is finding the correct replacement screen.
But in this case I think he's cracked the touchscreen digitizer glass, not the screen itself.
Not had to deal with one of them, yet.
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I haven't either.
No one wants to let you tear down their laptop just to see how it it put together 
Go figure.
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Most of the cracking is in the top left corner (and only goes about .25 inch onto the actual screen area. There are a few longer cracks, but they aren't really visible at most angles I view at, so it is fine. The cracks are barely visible anyways.
This happened when I was working on an assignment with my dad (as he knew what to do) and he decided that I wasn't working fast enough, and SCREAMED 'WORK FASTER' right in my ear, scaring me and causing me to jump up. The computer was just hanging over the edge of the table, and flipped right off. My mom was pissed, and ordered him to get it fixed. He replied 'Do it yourself, [EXTREME EXPLICITIVES DELETED]!'
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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I replaced a screen on an old Dell D610, a while back. There's just about every screen you could need on ebay -- I only paid a tenner.
But one of the joys of laptops is that you don't have to piss about with cards if you want to plug in an external monitor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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balanced by the fact they are absolute swine to work on at board level.
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I can't remember the last time I tried to actually fix a PC at board level either: too complex, especially without a diagram. Last I can remember was changing the keyboard fuse...remember, the one they used to fit that looked like a resistor and was soldered in?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I agreed to have a look at friends Sony (I was drunk at the time) found the dead thing a burn mark on the PCB gave it away, but in de-soldering it I caused the PCB delaminate....
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Don't you just love multilayer pcbs? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They are a wonder  absolutely needed in the modern electronics field. The work of Santa (or some one else) if you have to try to repairer them (drilling out via's collapsed via's and the like!)
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Oh I agree - the best / worst I've had to work with was 5 layer, which was a PITA to check against the diagram - they are great when they work, but when they fail...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Laptops? Too easy!
I dropped my tablet a few weeks ago, which resulted in it crashing several times a day, so I took it apart -- but soon decided that I didn't want to spend the time required to train bacteria how to get in there and fix it.
I was actually quite chuffed at that, and started looking for a new one
But then I flashed it with a new ROM (one that's rootable; the pre-installed one wasn't), to see if I could get it to limp along well enough to give to the school -- and the damned thing worked perfectly, afterward, so no new one!
It must have just been files damaged by a power surge 
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That happened to mine once.
Screen cracked, all seemed OK, then the data started to become corrupted.
The hard drive had broken too, managed to get quite a bit off but lost about a years worth of photos, wasn't backing it up back then.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Are there any other Cpians going to this event on Monday or will I have to carry the can and report back to the other 10,994,087 members?
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You're going to need a big can...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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