Knoppix

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Monday 28 March 2005 02:03 pm, Derek Martin wrote:
> Only tangientially related to this...
>
> While I was in Korea, my old Dell laptop experienced catastrophic
> failure (well, what REALLY happened was the power cable got caught on
> something, forcefully yanking it out of the power receptacle on the
> laptop, and breaking off the pins--making it impossible to power the
> machine or charge the battery)...

You hit a soft spot on me here... I'm a big fan of my old Dell laptops (I just 
swapped most my Inspiron 7000 parts for an Inspiron 7500 shell I acquired for 
free) and have risen more than a few pieces from the dead to make useful 
laptops for myself.  Anyway, my power connector on my last motherboard was 
screwed up just the same and I found a good cheap fix for it is the docking 
station.  I bought a docking station for the laptop for $9.11 on eBay 
including shipping and it made a great workaround for the broken power 
connector since the docking station had it's own.

Anyway, if you still have it and would rather do something useful with it, 
it's an idea.
-N