NYCPHP Meetup

[Daniel Convissor]

Hey Folks:

I bought an IBM 41p laptop last year.  As mentioned the other day, I 
recently installed FreeBSD, Apache and PHP on it.  This is in preparation 
of preparing a talk I'll be giving a week from today at the International 
PHP Conference.  Well, my laptop's sytem board is now having intermittent 
problems.

I called IBM support and they're not allowed to send me the system board.  
The only way to get such a board is to send them the machine.  Well, 
that's not gonna work timing wise.  First, I need the machine to finish 
testing my stuff before I go.  Second, I'm leaving on Sunday.

So, I'm hoping that some of the good people here have some connections, 
please.  Some semi-plausible thoughts that are running through my head, of 
which one should suffice:

* Someone (who knows someone) who's an IBM technician obtain the part for 
me.  The original part number is 93P3313, but that's not available any 
more.  The substitute part is 39T5495.

* Someone has a similar IBM laptop which I can borrow for two weeks, 
allowing me to pull my hard drive out of this laptop and into yours.  I 
must compliment IBM for the elegant design they employ that allows the 
hard drive to be slid out w/o opening up the machine at all.

Crossing my toes,

--Dan

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