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My trusty laptop seems to have developed a problem with the battery--it only sporadically sees it. I'll have to wait till I get back to Madison to test whether this is the new battery I got recently is the culprit.
I just say, this makes its function as a portable computing device less than optimal. Especially when its power cable connection is flaky too--that means that the laptop will just suddenly die every so often.
Time to see if I can save up for a laptop. Refurb 1.5 GHz powerbooks go for $1400 at the Apple store (given a 667MHz goes for almost $1000 on Ebay, there's no reason not to get a better one)...maybe I can swing it by the end of the summer--though there's lots of travel coming up: Chicago this week, Usenix at the end of May, Origins at the end of June, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alibee's wedding in August. I'll get reimbursed by work for the first two, but combined with Newton's vet bills, it's a bad time for a dead laptop.
Edit: Some careful hacking may have provided a temporary fix. I wedged a folded up piece of paper in the battery compartment, and that *seems* to have nudged the battery into contact with the er, contacts. We'll see.
I just say, this makes its function as a portable computing device less than optimal. Especially when its power cable connection is flaky too--that means that the laptop will just suddenly die every so often.
Time to see if I can save up for a laptop. Refurb 1.5 GHz powerbooks go for $1400 at the Apple store (given a 667MHz goes for almost $1000 on Ebay, there's no reason not to get a better one)...maybe I can swing it by the end of the summer--though there's lots of travel coming up: Chicago this week, Usenix at the end of May, Origins at the end of June, and
alibee's wedding in August. I'll get reimbursed by work for the first two, but combined with Newton's vet bills, it's a bad time for a dead laptop.Edit: Some careful hacking may have provided a temporary fix. I wedged a folded up piece of paper in the battery compartment, and that *seems* to have nudged the battery into contact with the er, contacts. We'll see.
