From: Alex Stockwell (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2006 - 10:35:46 PDT
if it's a hard drive issue putting it in the freezer actually does help:
http://www.meetmyattorney.com/slink/mt-archives/000275.html
Captain P.J. wrote:
>Once you pull it out of the freezer, try to crack the inner screen without letting the liquid crystals leak out. It's really pretty cool looking- you get wicked fractals and metallic rainbow bubbles (that is, if the display still works and you are absolutely sure you can't salvage the rest). I filmed such an "accident" once. And because everything is broken, you don't have to worry about refresh/frame rates! :-)
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>~Courtney
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>On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:00 , Courtney <email suppressed> sent:
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>>owen <email suppressed> wrote: Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:01:27 -0400
>>From: owen <email suppressed>
>>Subject: Re: disaster!
>>To: email suppressed
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>>put the laptop in the freezer for two hours.
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>>On Oct 5, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Jack Sargeant wrote:
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>>>ok, apologies to people who don't know me...
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>>>my lap top just decided to self destruct... in a wimper not a bang...
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>>>it means i've lost my address book (tho i am fighting to retrieve
>>>it) and
>>>i've lost email addresses for everybody i know.... so if anybody
>>>(Noel,
>>>Ed, Bryan, Mark, Danni, Jay etc etc) wants to send me their contact
>>>emails
>>>to:
>>>
>>>email suppressed
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>>>it'd make my life a little easier...
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>>>
>>thanks
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>>>jack
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>>>
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