Posts by davekra

1) Prefer to build my own 2) 18 months – 2 years 3) Extremely important 4) Is this a slight against Canada not being able to do math?

Well, I feel the fool. Here I am installing a 12Tb SAN at our downtown office and another 30Tb SAN in my data center and I'm tripped up by my laptops cover switch! You know that little thing sticking up by the on/off switch! I was...

Thanks, Yeah, the adapter is there. I don't recall the driver version right now but it looks like it's working. IIRC there should be a listing for the display that shows whose display it is. The monitor lists four "default...

son of a ...I opened my Inspiron 8600 and the display was blank. It goes into sleep mode when the display is closed like always but this time when I opened it, nothing! I can hook an external monitor and it works fine. It won't...

If done right a coat of wax is only a few molicules thick. You could use black shoe polish IF the surface your putting it on is NOT porous. After buffing there would be no color left. I doubt it's going to change the screen much,...

I suppose you’re right as things get older they get less stiff. ;-( There was plenty of grease in the hinge so more lubricant would not have changed the stiffness (unlike some things) and WD40 would not be the recommended lubricant. ...

Since I got mine I thought the cover hinge was to stiff. I felt this would be putting to much stress on the plastic holding the hinge on the bottom part of the case and would eventualy lead to cracking. Not being one who would let a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Chaosratt Any photos of this thing you did to the soldering iron? No, I threw it away, but I made up some pics of what it was. First you need some sheet copper, like they’re using...

Modding the LED’s isn’t hard but it does take some skill with the soldering iron. First thing you need to do is scour ebay for a replacement cover so as to not void your warrantee. I got mine for 5 bucks + shipping. Put your original...