[Vimoutliner] gpg + vimoutliner

[Peter Princz]

Hello Steve,

2008/7/26 Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>:
> On Friday 25 July 2008 19:20, Peter Princz wrote:
>> Hello world,
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>
> Peter -- when you ride your bicycle with your laptop, how do you carry the
> laptop? How long have you been doing this? Has anything shaken loose in the
> laptop, or has it exhibited intermittent symptoms?
>
> I'd love to ride my bicycle around with my laptop. but am afriad the banging
> and jarring will harm the laptop.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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I'm riding all year, have a "winter" bike (MTB, wide tyres) and a
"normal" (road) bike.
Haven't had a fall off-winter yet with the laptop, but had a few
during winter. Was gliding on ice on my back/bottom, backpack brushing
the asphalt.
(Will make my own studded tyres for this next winter.)

The laptop is a Thinkpad T60 with IBM's (Lenovo's) standard laptop
backpack. (Haven't had a choice, this is the corporate standard.) I
believe the frame is enforced with Magnesium as with Samsonite cases,
not pure plastic. Don't know if this is standard at other
manufacturers or not.

The bag is very well padded, no damage to the computer up to now,
screen is like new, not even the finishing peeling off. The only
complaint I got from PC helpdesk is that the keyboard is much more
dusty than others's keyboards, but they know I'm riding and brush or
vacuum-clean it for me once in a year.
The only problem is it lets the rain in at the zip but will not let
water out, so I have the laptop (and everything else, like paper-based
Filofaxes) in separate plastic bags inside the backpack.

I did 2500 km so far with this laptop on my back, not terrain but
rough asphalt with potholes and pavé between a small town and a small
village, no problems.
I'm bunnyhoping the bigger ones, have clipless pedals, have rigid
steel forks in both bikes, no spring or oil to dampen the shocks.
I never let run the computer while riding, putting to standby is the
minimum, the HDD not to spin during riding. (It would halt anyway, it
has a shock detection feature that would stop and park the HDD at the
smallest move.)

Hope this helps, let me know if further elaboration is needed.

Have a nice day,
  Peter