Hardware Upgrades
Today I installed a new computer to house the Vancouver Weather Observations weather software. The previous computer was in service 24 X 7 from January 2002 until today which adds up to 8 years and a couple of months. Not too shabby for a computer that was on constantly eh? What prompted me to replace it is that it had started to develop some noises that made me think a fan or disk drive bearing was about to fail. There were also other random issues which would make Virtual Weather Station stop updating the website. After 8 years of faithful service it was time for replacement.
The new computer is a Dell Studio desktop running Windows 7. Virtual Weather Station still reads the weather data and updates the website like before. I considered changing software because at the time I planned this upgrade VWS was not yet Windows 7 compatible but Ambient came through with an update in the nick of time. Ambient has been slow to add features and update this software so there may be a software change in the future. For now though it is a reliable product that I’m familiar with so it will continue to be used.
I’m looking forward to having a quieter, more reliable computer to manage my weather hobby!
the weather these days is hotter than the previous decades, i guess it is the effect of global warming,,*