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Friday, March 19, 2004

This problem could turn out to be something quite bizzare:

I know this sounds strange but I read in another thread that pushing down on the keyboard or twisting the unit slightly will get it to boot. I had the same frustrating systems. After disassembling the unit, reseating the CPU and reassembling. Nothing worked. Read about 'pushing and 'twisting and it worked! At this point give it a try, after all the machine is dead, can't hurt it! It must be sound strange quirk in the Latitude!

//Rick

posted by Jesse at 9:12 PM #




Nope, it was vain. Further investigation has revealed that mine uses old, hard to find, and relatively costly EDO SODIMMS, not the common SDRAM SODIMMS. Which means it wouldn't work in most computer's I cared to try it in. So I'm back to square one.

I have no choice but to dig into that unseemly pile.
posted by Jesse at 5:26 PM #




You wouldnn't think it possible, but a broken memory module both dampened and made my day. I turned on my laptop this morning only to discover that it wouldn't turn on. I performed some exploratory surgery on it this afternoon in the hopes that the cause might have been some immediately accessible loose component.....without success. Not wanting to dismantle it further(servicing a laptop is cumbersome, and not fun at all) I put it aside to wait for an opportunity to test its one and only memory module, in the vain hope that it was really as simple as a brokem piece of RAM. I hauled it over to Benjamin's place and tested my RAM in his laptop. To my delight, my RAM turned out to be faulty. So my vain hope really wasn't so vain. The computer's as good as fixed, and I didn't have to deal with an unseemly pile of laptop parts.
posted by Jesse at 1:01 AM #


Friday, March 05, 2004

Stuff to do:

• Finish testing Web Edit. Yes, its in testing, but it's only a perl module at the moment, so its only exciting if you want to write some perl


• slap together a quick UI for web edit....to get the ball rolling.


• Think of a better name for Web Edit(maybe this should be at the top of the list). I probably won't end up doing this.


• Reblogger 3? 2 is working like a charm, but it lacks features others have, the default template leaves something to be desired, and the design(under the hood) can certainly be improved upon. Also, support for some kind of standard comment archive format would be nice.

posted by Jesse at 5:33 PM #