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Geoffrey | 1 Feb 2005 01:05

OT: laptop flat conductor

I've got an older laptop I'm trying to repair.  It has one of those flat 
ribbon like cables that has about 6 conductors in it.  The ribbon is 
torn in two.  Anyone ever tried to repair one of these things?  It's 
about 1/4" wide, so the conductors are real close.  I can't imagine 
purchasing a new keyboard for this laptop for this purpose.

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Until later, Geoffrey
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joh6nn | 1 Feb 2005 01:15

Re: OT: laptop flat conductor

Geoffrey wrote:
> I can't imagine purchasing a new keyboard for this laptop for this purpose.

you may want to give it some more thought; i haven't ever tried it 
myself, but i've seen the results of other people's attempts to fix 
those.  you might also see if someone's selling just the cable, though i 
expect if they are, it'll cost about the same as the whole keyboard.
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Jay Loden | 1 Feb 2005 01:29

Re: C++ "not all control paths return a value"

Sorry, I was looking at other code at the same time, and I meant to say 
"return name" not return true....go me!

-Jay

On Monday 31 January 2005 03:24 pm, Warren Myers wrote:
> Umm.. returning true in a string functgion, should make the compiler
> barf. Unless you mean you're just returning an empty string, which
> would be done with 'return new string;'
>
> WMM
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:18:18 -0500, Jay Loden <jloden@...> wrote:
> > Yeah, it's the only thing that's kept me on Windows at all, because I
> > need Visual Studio to compile the stupid thing.  I thought it'd be a one
> > time thing but here we are over 18 months later and I'm still updating it
> > weekly to remove new virus variants.
> >
> > Thanks to everyone that replied, all I had to do was remove the else at
> > the end and just put "return true" - one of those things where looking
> > back at code from a year ago I realize that I've learned a little since
> > then ;)
> >
> > -Jay
> >
> > On Friday 28 January 2005 06:39 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 18:14 -0500, Jay Loden wrote:
> > > > If it helps, it's a virus removal that has resulted in me being able
> > > > to bring about five or six people into the Linux flock ;)
> > >
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Geoffrey | 1 Feb 2005 01:32

Re: Hello!

David Fitzhenry wrote:
> Just wanted to extend a 'hello'!  I'm a Woodstock resident, and have
> been a Linux geek for about two years now, give or take.

Welcome, and you're a prime candidate for the NW meetings at KSU.  Hope 
to see you there.  I'll be updating the page with the presentation info 
soon, so keep checking there for more info.

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Until later, Geoffrey
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Geoffrey | 1 Feb 2005 01:34

Re: OT: laptop flat conductor

joh6nn wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>> I can't imagine purchasing a new keyboard for this laptop for this 
>> purpose.
> 
> 
> you may want to give it some more thought; i haven't ever tried it 
> myself, but i've seen the results of other people's attempts to fix 
> those.

Can't hurt it, it's in two pieces right now. :)

> you might also see if someone's selling just the cable, though i 
> expect if they are, it'll cost about the same as the whole keyboard.

One end is soldered to the keyboard, so I'd have to get the keyboard as 
well anyway.

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Until later, Geoffrey
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Paul Boren | 1 Feb 2005 05:11

RE: Book Review - Understanding Open Source & Free Software, Licensing (Barry Hawkins)

Barry Hawkins wrote:

>Licensing is not exactly the sort of topic where people slide forward in
>their seats and ask to be told more. Such is the appeal of software
>licensing; however, the importance of understanding licensing,
>particularly within the context of open source development, cannot be
>overstated.
>
You know it wasn't a slow day on /. either and there it is...

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/31/2010211&from=rss

I think a lot of people are wising up.
Some of them will pick up the book.
Great review, Barry.

-- Paul Boren
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joh6nn | 1 Feb 2005 07:01

Re: gaim perl plugins

just for the sake of posterity, perl plugins have been disabled by 
default, as perl support is apparently flaky somehow (details were 
scarce).  i knew that they couldn't be enabled through the Gui, but it 
took a bit of reading to figure out just how to get them turned on.  the 
answer is to roll your own gaim build with --enable-perl as an option 
for the configure script, and be damn sure you pay attention to STDERR, 
'cause i guarantee you're not get all the way through without a problem.

--joh6nn
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James P. Kinney III | 1 Feb 2005 13:51

Re: OT: laptop flat conductor

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 19:34 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> joh6nn wrote:
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >> I can't imagine purchasing a new keyboard for this laptop for this 
> >> purpose.
> > 
> > 
> > you may want to give it some more thought; i haven't ever tried it 
> > myself, but i've seen the results of other people's attempts to fix 
> > those.
> 
> Can't hurt it, it's in two pieces right now. :)
> 
> > you might also see if someone's selling just the cable, though i 
> > expect if they are, it'll cost about the same as the whole keyboard.
> 
> One end is soldered to the keyboard, so I'd have to get the keyboard as 
> well anyway.

_very_ carefully seperate the leads of each end of the break with a
razor (bright lights help this and a magnifier). get some 32 guage
enameled wire, gently sand the ends of both the bare broken and splice
wire, give a half-twist to the pair at the overlap (not much more than
1/8") and solder them. Use a piece of electrical tape across the width
of the ribbon to seperate the new splices and put the top tape on and
make sure there is sealed tape between each joint.

The big headache with this is stuffing it all back into the laptop. The
most common place for the ribbon to fail as at the bend. The new splices
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Geoffrey | 1 Feb 2005 14:32

Re: OT: laptop flat conductor

James P. Kinney III wrote:

> _very_ carefully seperate the leads of each end of the break with a
> razor (bright lights help this and a magnifier). get some 32 guage
> enameled wire, gently sand the ends of both the bare broken and splice
> wire, give a half-twist to the pair at the overlap (not much more than
> 1/8") and solder them. Use a piece of electrical tape across the width
> of the ribbon to seperate the new splices and put the top tape on and
> make sure there is sealed tape between each joint.

That's kinda along the lines I was thinking.  Tedious work that's going 
to take a long time because of the size of the effort.  Combine that 
with 48 year old eyes. :(

> The big headache with this is stuffing it all back into the laptop. The
> most common place for the ribbon to fail as at the bend.

Fortunately, it does ot bend, it lays pretty much flat.  That being 
said, I'm not sure how much clearance there is available for my repair. 
   It's hard to determine how flush this thing sits.

The new splices
> will make that bend impossible. It may be needed to cut out a section of
> ribbon to have just the splice wire across the bend.
>
> Method 2. Ebay for a new keyboard :)

I'm currently watching two. :)

Or, an external mouse.
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Keith R. Watson | 1 Feb 2005 14:41
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Re: OT: laptop flat conductor

Here's a source for ribbon cable

http://www.digikey.com/scripts/dksearch/dksus.dll?KeyWordSearch?KeyWords=ribbon+cable&site=us

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