A Completely Unrelated Series of Thoughts... Part 7

[OatBob]

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Hey gents!

I did a big upgrade to my awoken warlock costume from Destiny.  New makeup, additional armor, vinyl pants, and new gauntlets really made a big difference in the overall look.  Now, if only the EL component would stop failing I would have an illuminated bond.  My hunter buddy is on the second build of his hunter, and it's amazeballs!  He's even collaborating with another artist for 3D printed weapons.

http://facebook.com/Glasshound

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Immediately noticed the vinyl pants - that definitely cleaned up the look for me.
What kind of EL wire kit are you using? Those things tend to be fairly stable.

[OatBob]

There is a fine wire poking out of the "rope" part, and all I need to do is solder it to the copper lead and it should be good again.

I dropped it and it completely separated.  It was wonky before.  My buddy was having some technical difficulties too.  His "Radiant Dance Machines" weren't illuminating either.

[OatBob]

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Otherwise, it's come a long ways since Halloween.

[mumboking]

This post marks my 1000th post on here!
I am now a Sega Master System!

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[Zagnorch]

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Otherwise, it's come a long ways since Halloween.

Oh... you're not cosplaying as Nightcrawler from X-Men? Color me disappointed.

Speaking of color: it looks like you got a deeper tan... or blue, whatever... in the interim. You must be getting outdoors more often, huh?

[OatBob]

I picked up a different type of face paint.  The light stuff was flaking off heavily after a couple hours.   I want to bring back the white wig, but I think it needs proper spikes to look good.

[mumboking]

Do you think it's worth spending ~£21 to repair a ripped-apart Toshiba Satellite L500-11V?
It was thrown out in the rain by a next-door neighbour (I think he said it's because it wasn't charging) either late last year or earlier this year.
After drying it, it didn't work at all. Not surprising.

Today, I decided to try turning it on again and somehow, amazingly, it booted right up into an Ubuntu Live CD I put in there.
It's even charging!

I'd need to replace the keyboard bezel/palmrest, trackpad, screws, speakers, RAM cover and HDD caddy. I've already got a spare 80GB (not huge, I know...) hard drive I could put in there.
There may be more to replace, but that's all I can see so far. One broken thing I can't replace is one ram clip, which limits me to 2GB RAM max.
It's still much better than the Compaq Presario 2500 (with a HP NX9010 motherboard and no WI-FI) I currently have.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

I think it's worth fixing any computer, as long as it can be used.

[techwizard]

not an amazing computer but if you can get it up and running for that little money then go for it, i don't see any downside.

[mumboking]

I might be SOL with this... Seems the keyboard connector may have lifted pads. Cheapest motherboard I found was ~£60, much more than I'm willing to spend.

EDIT: Crap... I was going to attempt gluing the connector back down in hopes it still made connection, but the whole connector fell off with some of the pads...

[techwizard]

damn that sucks man, it was worth a shot anyway.

[mumboking]

damn that sucks man, it was worth a shot anyway.

Yeah. I can still use it with a USB keyboard and mouse but that defeats the point of a laptop.
As for the trackpad, it's possible I might be able to repair it's connector... I might not even bother doing it now though.

[Izret101]

FS 20$ OBO
Broken laptop. I broke it worse.

[mumboking]

Nah, I'm keeping it. Actually, I've just installed XP on it for testing purposes.
I guess I could sell the parts separately, but I just can't be bothered.

EDIT: Hah, it hasn't installed network drivers! I guess it's time to grab a USB stick... after I finish my pizza, of course...