So the page up and page down keys on my laptop (see my review on the T430s) are next to the directional arrows. This was driving me insane, as I would accidentally hit them and then my view would jump to kingdom come. Thankfully you can remap keys in Linux, and I found autohotkey for Windows. Such a lifesaver. I remapped pgup/pgdn to home and end. That's when I discovered...
How did I not know about HOME and END until now!?!?!
These are fantastic keys, especially since I'm so used to vi/m in Linux, and jumping to the beginning / end of lines to do inserts. It is super-useful to have these keys in Windows. I absolutely love the keyboard layout with the remapping now.
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T60 Screen Power Inverter Replacement
Sometimes you fix things, and they don't turn out fixed. This is one of those stories.
I have this old Thinkpad T60 (circa 2004 - they built these things well), where windows finally gave up the ghost on this fellow, so I put on Ubuntu, but it consistently had issues with the screen - after a few minutes of operation the backlight would go out. I thought that the screen power inverter might be the problem.
It wasn't, but it was still a fun replacement, so I thought I would share:
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Equipment :
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| Screw locations - four on the front and a few on the sides. They're hidden behind small black covers, you can use a flat screwdriver to pry them off. |
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| Here we are with the screws removed, you can pull up on the screen-front to reveal the power inverter - the green and white strip at the bottom. |
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| It pulls right out and you can swap it with the new one. One side connects with the screen, and the other with the chassis Reverse steps to get back to working laptop. |
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