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Replaced the LCD in my son's Acer tablet that he dropped: everything looks like a photo negative now.
Tried to fix the 520ST: All I get is either A) green stripes, B) 20 Bombs, or C) nothing.
Tried to fix my son's Nintendo DSi, which he dropped in the toilet: broke a teeny tiny ribbon connector, so it won't even turn on anymore.
I give up.
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Regular listeners may remember how I tried to replace the pull cord in my bathroom light switch in January, it took me a week to get it fully working, with various intermediate states of working along the way.
Last week I had to have two goes at getting a new shelf to stay up in the kitchen.
So it really was highly optimistic of my wife to expect me to be able to wire in a new light fitting in the hallway in half an hour on Saturday evening, and she only has herself to blame that we had no lights downstairs for the rest of the night.
I got my DIY skills from my dad, and some day I hope to be wealthy enough to pay someone to do the simplest of tasks around the house just like he now does.
Sunday was a success though, I managed to get a new picture up on the wall with only the one nail hammered into the wrong place.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Measure twice, cut once?
NOPE. Measure 17 times, then have someone else double check it.
And 30% of the time, it will still be 1/8" too short.
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GenJerDan wrote: my son's Acer tablet that he dropped
GenJerDan wrote: fix my son's Nintendo DSi, which he dropped
I can see a pattern here!  
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Super Lloyd wrote: I can see a pattern here!
Drop it.
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Oh, yeah.
I'm hoping it clears up once they learn about gravity in school.
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It sounds like my son, a.k.a. Destructo-Boy!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hmm, here I though my son was a euphemism for my wife got mad and threw x at me. 
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How old is your son?
My son knows that I will not replace anything he owns, if he is constantly careless with it. He is currently saving up for his own x-box. 
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He'll be 7 in 3 weeks.
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Don't let him hold the Birthday Cake.
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I really understand this, especially after my episode with a hot water tank last week!
I'm sitting here now looking at my step-son's laptop which he asked me to look at...something wrong with the screen since he used the top of the screen like a handle to move it...of course he doesn't know where the adapter is. After a few weeks I finally find an adapter that will work with it and finally see that the display is completely whacked and appears to have cracks under the surface. And how do we punish reward him for his destructive behavior? The replacement was an iPad. In the meantime, I'm still working on a 6 year old laptop.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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All that, plus things are crappily made these days.
My laptop is a Toshiba from a dozen years ago. Works fine. Never a problem to be seen.
My wife is on her third laptop since 2007...they keep "dying". HP -> Dell -> Toshiba.
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You know what? I do have a brother in law and a motherboard that...
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GenJerDan wrote: Replaced the LCD in my son's Acer tablet that he dropped: everything looks like a photo negative now.
Reverse the polarity. 
I'm not joking either. LCD cables use differential signaling, connect them backwards and your 0's will become 1's and vice versa. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's connected with a ribbon cable. Not sure if the contacts are exposed on both sides, or if there's enough wiggle room to twist it around. 
But I'll check.
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hmmmm, misaligned in the connector and off by one? I'd've expected that to be a total not work though.
Tiny connectors are hell. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dunno. Misaligned shouldn't be able to happen, the way it is shaped.
It's probably something like a change between model builds. I'll have to try to find some pinouts for various editions and see if there was a change that could account for it.
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The link below is a 2 hour live class (CSCI-33 Programming Microsoft .NET) at Harvard Extension School. You can literally sit in on a Professor teaching a C# class at Harvard.
 And they wonder why no one majors in Computer Science. It's no mystery.
http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2015/01/14310/L01/index_H264SingleHighBandwidth-16x9.shtml[^]
The web technology related to the lecture is very cool. You can skip around to different sections of the lecture very easily. Check it out. Skip ahead to Hour 01:00:00 where he talks about actual code GetTime() method and see what you think.
I don't know. I guess the web has just jaded me, because the class feels soo slooooow.
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If learning a language had been this slow back in 1981 I'd probably be doing something else by now.
Whether or not that's a bad thing is a different question
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: If learning a language had been this slow back in 1981
It's just amazing that school moves this slowly. You can read an article on this an get much better, in depth information. Thanks for replying. I wonderd if others would feel the same way about the video / teaching method.
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newton.saber wrote: It's just amazing that school moves this slowly. You can read an article on this an get much better, in depth information.
Back in my day, we bought learn to program anything in 21 days books. So just think, that professor has to stretch out all that information into a full semester while not looking foolish.
I'm questioning whether I'll ever send my kids to college or not... seriously... for what I do, I don't think I need a degree (although the HR folks tend to think it is required).
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Pualee wrote: that professor has to stretch out all that information into a full semester while not looking foolish.
I think you've perfectly summarized the situation. You could almost go one level deeper and say,
"Parents send children to school to get educated, but public education has been so slow that now University has to go slow for the _average_ learner. Plus, parents would not pay all those 10s and 100s of thousands of dollars for University if you could get a degree in only 1 year. That'd feel like a rip-off. " 
And so -- the solution -- the professor drags on. 
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He's probably getting paid by the hour 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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When I worked at the University in Jordan, we had a white-hat hacker come in to give a lecture. He had an hour and spent the 30 mins just introducing himself and his list of qualifications. He still allowed himself 15 mins Q&A time. I've never seen a lecturer in the UK introduce himself in this way over and above his (and they were all "he"s) name and contact details. Perhaps this is a US thing - "here are my credentials and here is why you should listen to me" kind of thing??
Anyway, the actual content was 15 mins long, and this consisted of running a tool he'd downloaded. One of the most disappointing sessions I've ever attended.
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