The new heat sink arrived last night.
Less than a hour later I had the laptop’s motherboard swapped out. I made quick work of that, huh?
Seems I can almost take this laptop apart in my sleep now. The difference in performance for gfx operations (watching processor load while doing graphics things) is amazing. This is [...]

Regarding my post about subversion 1.6.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 being broken….
There, I fixed it for you.

The cable connecting the trackpad to the motherboard was pinched and shorting.
The LVDS cable I got off ebay isn’t the right cable for the resolution of my screen. So thankfully that wasn’t the problem.
The new motherboard (with discreet nvidia graphics) is here, but I don’t -dare- try to use it without a new heat-sink that’ll [...]

So here I am at work, merging svn trees for a milestone release of a project…
When suddenly, a
svn merge –dry-run
fails with tree conflicts, but
svn merge
without –dry-run succeeds, followed by a failing commit. Ack!
I’m on Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala… the latest stable release. Surely it’s not the packaged subversion release?

$ svn –version
svn, version 1.6.5 [...]