Laptop Repair
Posted on May 24, 2007
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Check out this picture (apologies for quality… my cell camera isn’t all that great in dim light). It sums up my evening:
A neighbor (and father of one of my son’s best friends) brought over a laptop for me to look at. It didn’t take long to realize it was hosed up pretty bad by a virus.
What we have:
- Knoppix CD - I initially booted off the Knoppix CD to have a look around and see what I could recover.
- Drive - Initially, I was going to copy his My Docs on to a USB Key. Then I realized it was over 12GB… I opted, instead, to just pull his drive, attach my USB converter to it and copy it all over to my server (and AV scan it all too, of course).
- Precision screw driver set - When you don’t have a small enough torx driver to remove the laptop screws, a nice small standard driver will usually fit.
- The obligatory notepad and pen - I can’t function without ‘em.
See that “Teach Yourself Java” book in the background? It finally found a way to be useful — it keeps my LCD monitor an extra two inches off my desk. 
Tags: java, Knoppix, laptop, repair
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I love the fact that your Java book has a new use. I have the exact same book. A couple of weeks ago, I re-purposed mine into a yoga block
See? And I always thought Java books weren’t useful.
We’re doing some lanscaping out back this weekend. If I had about 100 more of these, I could do some nice decorative borders. Or use ‘em as pavers!