Bike computer back online

Needs a new battery though, the display is pretty weak.
The new mounting brackets are sized for 31.8mm handlebars, with thick rubber tape to size them back down to smaller bars. I had to use all the tape they gave me AND 6 or 8 layers of electrical tape to get it on there right.

Also the computer didn't make electrical contact with the bracket at first. I'll have to play with it later to make sure it's reliable.

New computer at work

I've turned down 5 upgrades to date, I've been running on the same single-core 2GHz box since Feb 2004. Honestly, even now it's still 100% adequate for what I do.

Finally though the mainboard flaked and they had to dig in a closet to find a machine to steal one from, so when the upgrade wave came through again, I let them put a new box on my desk.

It's a Core 2 Duo 3.16 GHz machine with 3.25GB of RAM (weird, huh?). Honestly as much as anything else I just decided to take it so I could climb up the World Community Grid ratings a bit. I still don't have any good reason to upgrade other than lack of replacement parts in case the old box croaks again.

I'm keeping the old box as a testing machine, and to run Ubuntu. It'll be weird having Ubuntu running on a relatively capable machine.

Anyway, there goes the rest of this afternoon and probably several hours next week until all the software is installed and everything's up to date.