Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen?

DefenseSupportParty writes "I recently traveled via an unnamed airline, and stupidly checked my laptop. Unfortunately, the screen broke in transit and they refuse to take responsibility for it, claiming that it could have been broken before the flight. I'm not really in the mood to replace the screen if I have to pay for it, as I have other laptops that I can use. At the same time, I don't want to waste computing power that could be put to good use. I've thought about the common stuff: file server, SETI@Home, but I'd like to do something a little more creative. Does anyone have good ideas for a relatively powerful laptop without a display?"

Braille Quake

[Anonymous Coward]

Braille Quake is available for Windows & Linux.

Oblig.

[Jamamala]

How about you take a few more flights and then set up a beowulf cluster?

PQ

[Brian Gordon]

Run 10,000 instances of progress quest [progressquest.com].

Checked it?

[Anonymous Coward]

How about setting it up a a monument to your carefree lifestyle? I mean, really, who on earth checks laptops?

Re:How powerful exactly?

[palegray.net]

I don't feel like waiting ten years for the results of my calculations, so your ten-year-old beige box won't really work for me.

Re:First post

[Anonymous Coward]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg [wikipedia.org]

Re:Oblig.

[n0dna]

I wish I had mod points, I literally laughed out loud.

Well played. :)

That's what you get...

[Jawbreaker4Fs]

That's what you get for traveling on an unnamed airline.

Re:Media Center?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or more interesting, perhaps... use the wifi remotes along with some kind of home automation software. Then all you have to do is hook up your house and that computer could control all of your house :)

Where does one find this mythical 'house-plug'? Is it USB? Serial? Some kind of ATA?

Tard.

Re:Donate it?

[youthoftoday]

Regular flier?

Tell you what

[Legion303]

If you don't have the imagination to figure this one out, send it to me and I'll do the thinking.

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Re:Oblig.

[noidentity]

Yeah, but how will he be able to fly the airline again, considering it has no name?

Answer a centuries old question . . .

[UnknowingFool]

Will it blend?

Re:Donate it?

[Anonymous Coward]

You must be really, really clumsy.

Re:Oblig.

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't get it.

Re:Oblig. ^2

[suso]

*Whoosh*

For more information, read the last 10 years of Slashdot comments.

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Re:That's what you get...

[pavera]

its not all white, its got a red stripe too...

Re:Sue them?

[Tink2000]

I don't know a single lawyer who has ever managed to pass a bar.

Worlds most ridiculous door bell.

[upuv]

Rip the key board out mount the key board in some sort tin contraption. Now mount the keyboard and laptop in the tin contraption on the wall outside of the house/unit/apt/country lane.

Then put up a sign.
"Please enter the 64char apt code then hit enter. To gain entry or ring tenant".

Now load the laptop up with every annoying you got the answer wrong game show sound. Just randomly play one of the files, when ever someone hits a key other than say "+". Where "+" actually rings you and lets you know someone is at the door. :)

Hmm

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know a single lawyer who has ever managed to pass a bar.

I've met a few clever ones who thought to pass it lengthwise.

Re:Oblig. ^2

[lewko]

Had you read the last 10 years of Slashdot comments, you would realise that the correct expression is: "You must be new here".

Re:You can

[nizo]

Buy a cheap external monitor.

Make it a small one and a few rolls of duct tape later you have your laptop back! At least as long as their is a plug nearby....

Re:Worlds most ridiculous door bell.

[Voyager529]

The only people who will successfully ring the bell with the + sign will be the RIAA. They will discover that it is the + sign key by pressing every button on the apparatus and make a note of each sound used, suing him for $150,000 in damages per sound used.

Search the airline by using the asterix ?

[freaker_TuC]

I'm flying with *, and you?

Re:Donate it?

[couchslug]

"You must be really, really clumsy."

No, they aren't sealed and I spend lots of time on Usenet.
Perhaps an upside-down sneeze guard is in order.

Re:How powerful exactly?

[iamhassi]

Why run Methlab when you can run Octomom?

Re:Oblig.

[Chabo]

Can you be my facebook friend? Can I follow your twitter feed?

You must be new here.

The correct way to say it is: "Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter."

Re:NO. Sue them.

[nbauman]

"It was probably broke before you checked it," is not a valid excuse for an airline to refuse baggage insurance (or any other company for that matter).

A man sues his neighbor because, he says, he loaned the neighbor a pot, and the neighbor returned the pot with a hole in it.

The neighbor says:

First, I never borrowed the pot.

Second, it had a hole in it when I got it.

Third, I returned it in perfect condition.