[ajutla]

yeah, this happened to me with my old laptop - the vertical lines shit. if i sort of massaged the back of the screen the right way it got back to normal, though. i think this happens because of something in the way the screen is held together coming loose. i am mostly pulling this out of my ass.

that laptop still works, though, as far as i know. i just don't use it because, you know, it's a 120mhz pentium. 16 megabytes of ram.

my current laptop has a much more annoying problem - the fucking usb ports don't really work. i have to keep jiggering the cord and repositioning the laptop and all kinds of bullshit if i want to do something simple like plug my ipod in. it's bullshit.