BerkeleyLUG's Virtual Meetup this Sunday 2021-01-24

[goossbears]

Timely reminder here of the second BerkeleyLUG meetup (virtual) of the month as listed at https://berkeleylug.com/ and as per the schedule https://berkeleylug.com/meetings/

Virtual meetup starts at 11:00 am this Sunday, January 24th, and goes to 2:00 pm or however late people want to participate.

https://meet.jit.si/BerkeleyLUG

Dial-in: +1.512.647.1431 PIN: 1036 1972 20#

Hope that everyone's staying safe! :-)

[tom r lopes]

Yes, see you guys Sunday.  

I have another give away:  A Lenovo desktop.  Belonged to an old 

friend of mine who passed away last year.  Nonsmoker no pets, so 

no ick in this at all.  I will erase the drives before handing it over.  

Core I5, 1TB hard drive, ram ? (I don't remember but I'd guess 4GB) 

I upgraded with 128GB SSD.  And wired keyboard and mouse if you 

want (and 19" wide LCD VGA input)  

Some news in Linux-land:  

Linux ported to the new Apple silicon (Apples Arm M1 chip)  

https://corellium.com/blog/linux-m1

I said somewhere "good luck getting Linux on that"  Ok I was way wrong!

From the Pi foundation: New $4 microcontroller called the Pico Pi 

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-pico/

It features a Pi Foundation designed Arm chip (the RP2040) 

which is also for sale.  Arduino, Adafruit and Sparkfun have 

already announced boards using it.  

Look for more about this in Pi.Berkeley email  

Thomas

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[goossbears]

On Friday, January 22, 2021 at 2:16:01 AM UTC-8 trl wrote:

Yes, see you guys Sunday.  

I have another give away:  A Lenovo desktop.  Belonged to an old 

friend of mine who passed away last year.  Nonsmoker no pets, so 

no ick in this at all.  I will erase the drives before handing it over.  

Core I5, 1TB hard drive, ram ? (I don't remember but I'd guess 4GB) 

I upgraded with 128GB SSD.  And wired keyboard and mouse if you 

want (and 19" wide LCD VGA input)

Don't know if anyone has claimed that Lenovo desktop yet, but John S.

of the SF-LUG mailing-list is apparently seeking a laptop for a friend.

Quoting John's 'Looking for a laptop' posting earlier today from

http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2021q1/015144.html :

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John Strazzarino jstrazza at yahoo.com
A friend is looking for a laptop. Needs a webcam built in. 4 gb of ram and 250 go hard drive. He has a limited budget (surprise).
Thanks
John

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[goossbears]

Previously wrote ....

Quoting John's 'Looking for a laptop' posting earlier today from

http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2021q1/015144.html :

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John Strazzarino jstrazza at yahoo.com
A friend is looking for a laptop. Needs a webcam built in. 4 gb of ram and 250 go hard drive. He has a limited budget (surprise).
Thanks
John

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While the Lenovo that Tom is giving away is a desktop PC, perhaps John S's friend could

possibly accept and use this instead of a laptop PC?

-A

[tom r lopes]

Or I could just give them a laptop.  

Thomas

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[tom r lopes]

So to update the Lenovo is an H50 and I'm off a little on the specs 

Core I3  4160 at 3.6 Ghz  Dual core with hyperthreading 

8GB ram with an extra slot (16GB max) 

128GB SSD and 1TB HDD

DVDRW 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/VwkSZayisXkaatTJ8  

Thomas

[Rick Moen]

Aaron quoted John Strazzarino (from elselist):

> A friend is looking for a laptop. Needs a webcam built in. 4 gb of ram and
> 250 go hard drive. He has a limited budget (surprise).

I keep hoping that John will eventually introduce me to his _other_
friends, the ones with unlimited budgets. No luck so far.

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