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--- tutorial_items [2017/12/04 15:54] – created jcnash
+++ tutorial_items [2019/06/04 12:14] – [Choosing a new computer] jcnash
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 ===== Tutorials and Help Materials =====
-  * **Help with GNU/Linux**
+{{page>:other_years}}
+====   Help with GNU/Linux ====
     * **[[:GettingStarted|Getting Started]]** - Check this page first!
     * [[:Howtos|Help on this website]]
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     * [[:Win2Lin]] - Windows to Linux transitioning
-  * **Slides from meeting presentations**
+====  Choosing a new computer ====
+Obviously, this is a constantly evolving topic, and one that is critically related to
+personal and institutional needs. Given this site, the OS will be **Linux**!
+==== 2019: Specs for a desktop/tower computer ====
+-6-4: My (John Nash) current primary "working" machine, called J6, is a Sept 2011 tower,
+which has served me well and is still a useful and well-balanced computer for
+my needs. These are:
+  * a lot of management of files, since I have a goodly collection of computer archives, having been involved with building and using computers since 1961, and I have managed to preserve many of the files, as well as materials from my academic career, my creative writing, folk dance, and personal and family history material.
+  * some computation (i.e., scientific computing), as well as specialized text processing, which can be intensive but is NOT gaming; I also do some scripting as well as programming for math/stat.
+  * much communication activity (web, email, video chat, ftp/ssh)
+  * some investigation of other distros (even --horrors-- non-Linux) using VMs under VirtualBox
+  * some photo, audio and video editing, but mainly of the snip-and-glue variety
+I like a fairly big screen. At one time J6 had two monitors, a 24" HDMI and a 20" VGA, but I've found just the 24" is fine. Smaller screens (as on my laptops) are not as helpful for writing and programming. I use headphones for audio -- no fancy speakers.
+J6 has the following setup:
+==== Slides from meeting presentations ====
+    * [[:MeetingPresentations2019|2019]]
+    * [[:MeetingPresentations2018|2018]]
     * [[:MeetingPresentations2017|2017]]
     * [[:MeetingPresentations2016|2016]]
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     * [[:MeetingPresentations2008|2008]]
-  * **Wiki help**
+==== Wiki help ====
     * [[:HowtoCreateANewWikiPage|Howto create a new wiki page]]
     * [[:HowtoSetAccessControl|Howto set access control]]
-  * **Reviews etc**
+==== Reviews etc ====
     * [[:BookReviews|Book Reviews]]
-  * **Carleton University VPN notes**
+==== Connectivity Note ====
+Carleton University VPN notes
     * [[:OneGuysExperienceWithCarletonUniversityVNP2011|Carleton U. VPN Notes]]
-[[Old Items|Old Items]]
+uOttawa connectivity with Linux
+    * 2018 uOttawa changed from local WPA setup to **eduroam** (??link). Some notes on this would be helpful
+    * 2017 notes on uOttawa vpn??