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Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen?
DefenseSupportParty writes "I recently traveled via an unnamed airline, and stupidly checked my laptop. Unfortunately, the screen broke in transit and they refuse to take responsibility for it, claiming that it could have been broken before the flight. I'm not really in the mood to replace the screen if I have to pay for it, as I have other laptops that I can use. At the same time, I don't want to waste computing power that could be put to good use. I've thought about the common stuff: file server, SETI@Home, but I'd like to do something a little more creative. Does anyone have good ideas for a relatively powerful laptop without a display?"
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How about you take a few more flights and then set up a beowulf cluster?
Run 10,000 instances of progress quest.
How about setting it up a a monument to your carefree lifestyle? I mean, really, who on earth checks laptops?
I don't feel like waiting ten years for the results of my calculations, so your ten-year-old beige box won't really work for me.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg
That's what you get for traveling on an unnamed airline.
Or more interesting, perhaps... use the wifi remotes along with some kind of home automation software. Then all you have to do is hook up your house and that computer could control all of your house :)
Where does one find this mythical 'house-plug'? Is it USB? Serial? Some kind of ATA?
Tard.
Regular flier?
-1 not first post
If you don't have the imagination to figure this one out, send it to me and I'll do the thinking.
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Will it blend?
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
You must be really, really clumsy.
*Whoosh*
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Oh what's that? This has already been suggested six hundred and seventy four times, basically at a frequency of every 5th post?
Oh.
Well I don't care I'm posting it anyways, what good is the internet if I can't chime in about something?
I don't know a single lawyer who has ever managed to pass a bar.
Why do I M2 everything negatively?
Rip the key board out mount the key board in some sort tin contraption. Now mount the keyboard and laptop in the tin contraption on the wall outside of the house/unit/apt/country lane.
Then put up a sign.
"Please enter the 64char apt code then hit enter. To gain entry or ring tenant".
Now load the laptop up with every annoying you got the answer wrong game show sound. Just randomly play one of the files, when ever someone hits a key other than say "+". Where "+" actually rings you and lets you know someone is at the door. :)
I don't know a single lawyer who has ever managed to pass a bar.
I've met a few clever ones who thought to pass it lengthwise.
Had you read the last 10 years of Slashdot comments, you would realise that the correct expression is: "You must be new here".
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Buy a cheap external monitor.
Make it a small one and a few rolls of duct tape later you have your laptop back! At least as long as their is a plug nearby....
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
I'm flying with *, and you?
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
"You must be really, really clumsy."
No, they aren't sealed and I spend lots of time on Usenet.
Perhaps an upside-down sneeze guard is in order.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Why run Methlab when you can run Octomom?
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
"It was probably broke before you checked it," is not a valid excuse for an airline to refuse baggage insurance (or any other company for that matter).
A man sues his neighbor because, he says, he loaned the neighbor a pot, and the neighbor returned the pot with a hole in it.
The neighbor says:
First, I never borrowed the pot.
Second, it had a hole in it when I got it.
Third, I returned it in perfect condition.