<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11489">Mignon,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11580"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11763">First suggestion: Bring note paper and pen/pencil.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11764"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11630" dir="ltr">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.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11890"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11891"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11892"></span></div>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.<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11883" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11632" dir="ltr">If it all works, smile and enjoy.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11682" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11680" dir="ltr">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.<br></div><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11488" class="qtdSeparateBR">Paul<br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11705" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11704" style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11703" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11702" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11766" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11765" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mignon Belongie <mignon.belongie@gmail.com><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11925"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11924" style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> conspire@linuxmafia.com <br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11927"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11926" style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 10, 2017 8:44 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11929"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11928" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [conspire] Barbarians advance! (CABAL time)<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11713" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv7884382106"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11712"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11711" dir="ltr">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. <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486794058355_11715"><br clear="none"></div><div>I'll try to bring something sort of healthy to eat.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Mignon</div></div><div class="yiv7884382106yqt4789714758" id="yiv7884382106yqt50427"><div class="yiv7884382106gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7884382106gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Rick Moen <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv7884382106gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">So, since it's 13 degrees C at 5pm today and probably will be the same<br clear="none">
tomorrow, and y'all are not Innuit, Saturday's CABAL gathering will<br clear="none">
likely be inside again. Forecast for Northern California is clear and a<br clear="none">
bit chilly after more overnight rain, with a 20% chance of falling<br clear="none">
hillsides.<br clear="none">
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Chez Moen, there will be Linux. There will also be yet another homemade<br clear="none">
pizza on a fresh pesto sauce base. I got a bunch of the ingredients<br clear="none">
this afternoon, and will be doing the crust tonight. Crust is courtesy<br clear="none">
of the highly useful Web page on the subject by BSD and security guy<br clear="none">
Marcus J. Ranum:<br clear="none">
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.ranum.com/fun/recipes/pizza.html">http://www.ranum.com/fun/ recipes/pizza.html</a><br clear="none">
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I am also making more sourdough bread, so as to be able to offer garlic<br clear="none">
bread in strict accordance to the original Norwegian Recipe.<br clear="none">
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Be there, or be somewhere else in the universe with an undetermined<br clear="none">
combination of location and velocity.<br clear="none">
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