[ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

[Gareth France]

On 10/05/13 09:28, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Gareth France wrote:
>> Agreed, in principle. However there are issues which prevent me from
>> doing this. Not something I can go into and as I've said before the
>> backups I do have aren't made in such a way that they could be
>> useable as is if my laptop were unusable for some reason.
> This would seem to defy their point somewhat. I'm carefully not
> criticising you here, but I imagine that the whole list cringed on
> reading that :)
>
> If you can get a good internet connection and don't mind entrusting
> your data to a complete stranger on the Internet, I can probably give
> you at least half a TB on a server you can rsync stuff to.
>
Sorry? You don't seem to understand what I'm saying. No I don't trust my 
data with a stranger, that's one of the reasons I won't send the hard 
drive off. I already have a server to back up to, it's the good internet 
connection I lack. And why would anyone cringe reading that?