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--- tutorial_items [2019/06/04 16:22] – [2019: Specs for a desktop/tower computer] jcnash
+++ tutorial_items [2025/05/02 00:18] (current) – [Slides from meeting presentations] jcnash
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 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**!
+personal and institutional needs. Given this site, the OS will be **Linux**! We can,
+of course, get a small war going with distro choice discussions.
-==== 2019: Specs for a new desktop/tower computer ====
+== 2019: Specs for a new desktop/tower computer ==
-As a concrete example for discussion, see
+As a concrete example for discussion, see [[2019NewTowerComputer|2019: New 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 very edited setup:
-  * Motherboard  GA-890GPA-UD3H
-  * AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor
-  * 16GiB System Memory (4*4Gib DIMM 1600 MHz (0.6 ns))
-  * display     RS880 [Radeon HD 4290]
-  * multimedia  RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series]
-  * RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
-  * 2 * 1TB WDC WD1002FAEX-0 in RAID (mirrored) -- used as data storage
-  * 500GB ST3500630AS used for OS and home directory
-  * 250GB ST3250820A used for holding VM images and similar material
-  * BD-RE  WH16NS40 optical drive (CD, DVD, BlueRay)
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 ==== Slides from meeting presentations ====
+    * [[:MeetingPresentations2025|2025]]
+    * [[:MeetingPresentations2024|2024]]
+    * [[:MeetingPresentations2023|2023]]
+    * [[:MeetingPresentations2022|2022]]
+    * [[:MeetingPresentations2021|2021]]
+    * [[:MeetingPresentations2020|2020]]
     * [[:MeetingPresentations2019|2019]]
     * [[:MeetingPresentations2018|2018]]