Winter break get together to finish HammerSMS, website, and create promo videos for #Hack4HamOnt

[Joey Coleman]

Hey everyone,

How's Tuesday the 27th of December for a daytime meetup?

- Joey

[Brian Graham]

This should work for me, unless we've moved to Jan 5th.

[Joey Coleman]

Hey guys,

Anyone have a preference of time/times for Tuesday?

- Joey

[Gavin Schulz]

I'm fine any time on Tuesday.

[Brian Graham]

Just curious if we have a time for the meeting or we're postponing
this for a few days. I suspect holiday events with family/friends/jobs
are taking more time from everyone than we anticipated.

On Dec 23, 8:30 pm, Joey Coleman <j...@thinkhaus.org> wrote:

[Peter Santos]

Hey guys,

Sorry I didn't respond sooner, but I've been sick for the past few
days. I should be okay by Thursday and onwards. Just let me know what
times you have in mind.

[Ryan McGreal, Raise the Hammer]

Hi All,

I'm looking to buy a new desktop computer and install Ubuntu on it, and I
would appreciate any suggestions or advice on what processors/graphics
cards etc play nice.

I've been running Ubuntu on a cheapo Canada Computers box for the past few
years (I started with 8.04 and migrated through a combination of upgrades
and fresh installs to 11.10), and the graphics have never worked
especially well. I've tried out a few other distros on virtualbox, but I
find Ubuntu sits nicely in the sweet spot of out-of-the-box functionality
and customization.

Now my sad sack of hardware is dying and it's time for a new one. I mainly
use it for software development, and ideally, I'd like to run dual
widescreen monitors for maximum screen real estate.

Anyway, I'll greatly appreciate any recommendations you can share.

Kind Regards,
Ryan McGreal

[Scott Elcomb]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Ryan McGreal, Raise the Hammer
<edi...@raisethehammer.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking to buy a new desktop computer and install Ubuntu on it, and I
> would appreciate any suggestions or advice on what processors/graphics
> cards etc play nice.

1st recommendation: don't buy a computer; build it. You'll get far
more bang for your buck. I can offer additional help if you want to go
this route.

> I've been running Ubuntu on a cheapo Canada Computers box for the past few
> years (I started with 8.04 and migrated through a combination of upgrades
> and fresh installs to 11.10), and the graphics have never worked
> especially well. I've tried out a few other distros on virtualbox, but I
> find Ubuntu sits nicely in the sweet spot of out-of-the-box functionality
> and customization.
>
> Now my sad sack of hardware is dying and it's time for a new one. I mainly
> use it for software development, and ideally, I'd like to run dual
> widescreen monitors for maximum screen real estate.

If you don't mind using proprietary drivers, I'll recommend nvidia for
graphics. Although I much prefer FOSS, in this case I go with what
works and use the nvidia drivers & cards on all my linux boxen. I
have no problems with 3D rendering, including WebGL.

At work I run dual monitors with an nvidia geforce card on
debian-based systems - which should prove little different from an
ubuntu setup.

Do you intend to push the box, computationally speaking? (Ie. games,
virtual machines?) If so, you may want to go with a fast multi-core
64-bit CPU. I've an AMD64 quad at home that I built last year (about
$1200, fully loaded); I don't think it's ever broken a sweat despite
pushing it hard. It runs several linux virtual machines
simultaneously under Windows 7, happily compiling and serving even
while games are being played. Never had an issue with it (that wasn't
Windows-related).

Best regards,
--
  Scott Elcomb
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