New computer at work
Jul. 31st, 2009 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyI'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.
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.
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Date: 2009-08-01 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-01 01:22 pm (UTC)Unfortunately they did install Office 2007. That ribbon is a horror. And I don't think there's any way to get rid of it, so all the standard keystrokes (Alt-E/c to copy) don't work anymore.
I only use Outlook out of all the Office suite anyway; for everything else there's OpenOffice, which does still follow standards.