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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? 
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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...
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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 
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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...
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Can I make it a can of Special Brew? It gives me super powers something like Popeye with Spinach but more wobbly
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I thought SB only had that effect on Scots and the homeless?
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No its pretty universal as far as I can tell.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft's future is Excel?
Quite right, too. It's by far the best IDE.
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I find CTRL+; very handy, I must admit!
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I'd prefer one that entered a date of before or after I worked for the company.
Let someone else take the blame for my c**k-ups.
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I'm sure it will be super interesting. [Liberal sarcasm].
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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There is a threat of some previews of current MS development projects that are dev centric rather than a lot of the vapid end-user 'oh look shiny' ballacks.
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bring back t-shirts for us, all 10M of us.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'll ask 
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Hurry up,
in the meantime someone heard about the gadgets and joined us
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Hi there,
Long time reader, first time poster.
I was wondering what people here think about the various paths we humble developers can/should take. The old stay technical or not debate I guess.
My situation is that I've been a .Net developer for around 7 years and I've now been in my current role for 18 months. During that time I've been responsible for less and less .Net code and instead been given more team and project management responsibilities.
There are various analysis and design elements to my job and the team and project management parts are certainly new skills which I'm finding interesting, but I'm still unsure if this is a good route to go down or if I should keep myself more technical?
I'm interested in any thoughts on these paths, and whether there is a difference in their value at different ages/stages of career?
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Go with the role that makes you happy. I tried being a manager once and hated every moment of it. Once I got back into a technical role my job satisfaction rose exponentially. But I know managers who relished every aspect of their job. It's horses for courses.
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