I give up

[elfs]

So, after having the laptop for exactly a week, it dies again. I can still get to it, but the screen is once again broken. This time, it appears to be the inverter card. The light comes on, briefly, on startup, and it's brilliant, and then it dies. This is not like the fluorescence failure; this is full-blown inverter card death.

And I can't remove the inverter card. One of the dumbshit things that happened the last time I worked on it is I stripped the screws that hold the inverter card in place.

Now what am I gonna do?

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I've no idea how much or how little you'll appreciate this.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Ages back, in fact years, I asked for the source code to the Java applet you were using to display the Pendorian time on your Journal Entries web-page.

Well, earlier I bought a paid account here on LiveJournal, which meant I could make Styles, including 'S2' ones, which include some simple processing abilities.

As a first exercise, I figured out how to get all the dates and times on the entries in my journal to appear in Pendorian. And, for no particular reason, I thought I'd mention it to you, in case you cared or were interested in what I'd done with the applet you had been nice enough to let me have a copy of the source code too.

If you're interested in seeing it, my friends page is the easiest place to spot it. The code is rather ugly, as I'm still learning how the style system works, but it seems to generate correct times.

As for your laptop... unfortunately what most folks here have said is true. Many laptops, especially older ones, are far too cost-prohibitive for repairs, which is unfortunate since the actual damage is often not that great, but any one component failing brings the whole laptop down.