[conspire] Barbarians advance! (CABAL time)

[Paul Zander]

Mignon,
First suggestion: Bring note paper and pen/pencil.
If you are a member of Costco, one strategy is to buy a computer that approximates your needs.  Install your choice of Linux. Install your choice of programs and any external devices you might want.
IMHO, Dell has a tendency to use various pieces of hardware based on their costs/availability.  Their choices sometimes aren't the most compatible with uses other than "normal" software on Windows.
If it all works, smile and enjoy.

If you encounter problems that appear to be hardware that don't seem to be sported by the software, you can return it to Costco.  Just make sure you to know the last date you can make the return.

Paul
      From: Mignon Belongie <mignon.belongie at gmail.com>
 To: conspire at linuxmafia.com 
 Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 8:44 PM
 Subject: Re: [conspire] Barbarians advance! (CABAL time)
   
I'm planning to come and hoping to get some advice on buying a laptop to run Linux on.  I've more or less decided on a Dell Precision 3520 with Ubuntu 16.04 pre-installed (a new addition to Dell's Project Sputnik line), but I'm open to other ideas, and even if I go with the 3520, I still have questions about some of the configuration options.  So, I'm hoping to discuss this with some of you tomorrow. 
I'll try to bring something sort of healthy to eat.
Mignon
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

So, since it's 13 degrees C at 5pm today and probably will be the same
tomorrow, and y'all are not Innuit, Saturday's CABAL gathering will
likely be inside again.  Forecast for Northern California is clear and a
bit chilly after more overnight rain, with a 20% chance of falling
hillsides.

Chez Moen, there will be Linux.  There will also be yet another homemade
pizza on a fresh pesto sauce base.  I got a bunch of the ingredients
this afternoon, and will be doing the crust tonight.  Crust is courtesy
of the highly useful Web page on the subject by BSD and security guy
Marcus J. Ranum:
http://www.ranum.com/fun/ recipes/pizza.html

I am also making more sourdough bread, so as to be able to offer garlic
bread in strict accordance to the original Norwegian Recipe.

Be there, or be somewhere else in the universe with an undetermined
combination of location and velocity.

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