<div>Hmm, that hard disc idea sounds good in principal, but then you've got someone who is in the position of suddenly having to worry about DOA products etc etc - a complete headache waiting to happen :\</div> <div>Not that I'm nay-saying or anything, but in reality it sounds a bit like hard work to me</div> <div> </div> <div>Pete  </div> <div>On 26/07/07, <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk-request@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-uk-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to        <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com </a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit        <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to        <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> You can reach the person managing the list at        <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk-owner@lists.ubuntu.com </a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest..." Today's Topics:   1. Re:  Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... (Alec Wright)   2. Re:  Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... (Alan Pope)   3. Re:  Repos on a Disk (Alan Pope) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:10:03 +0100 From: Alec Wright <<a href="mailto:alecjw@gmail.com">alecjw@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... To: British Ubuntu Talk <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com </a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1185394203.13738.8.camel@alecomp.WRIGHT">1185394203.13738.8.camel@alecomp.WRIGHT</a>> Content-Type: text/plain On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:57 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > And of course the beauty of HDDs is that they're R/W, so you store the > up to date images on a server and when the HDDs go out you just copy > across the latest image. That just gave me an idea... (if you're sane you'll stop reading now) Canonical could sell external hard disks with version(s), architecture(s) and (what do you call those things which main, restricted, universe and multiverse are?)(s) which you choose on them. After you've chosen what you want (eg main and restricted for feisty and dapper), they recommend the right size hard drive for you. They put the repos on the hard drive and send it to you. Then perhaps you could send it back to them and them pay them a bit to update it... Except there'd probably not be much demand for this. It would only be useful in large businesses, which would almost undoubtedly have an internet connection. Oh well... My idea sucks... Live with it. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:18:58 +0100 From: Alan Pope <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... To: British Ubuntu Talk <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com </a>> Message-ID: <1185398338.26115.0.camel@mother> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Alec, On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 21:10 +0100, Alec Wright wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:57 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > > > And of course the beauty of HDDs is that they're R/W, so you store the > > up to date images on a server and when the HDDs go out you just copy > > across the latest image. > > That just gave me an idea... (if you're sane you'll stop reading now) > Canonical could sell external hard disks with version(s), > architecture(s) and (what do you call those things which main, > restricted, universe and multiverse are?)(s) which you choose on them. > After you've chosen what you want (eg main and restricted for feisty and > dapper), they recommend the right size hard drive for you. They put the > repos on the hard drive and send it to you. > Then perhaps you could send it back to them and them pay them a bit to > update it... > Except there'd probably not be much demand for this. It would only be > useful in large businesses, which would almost undoubtedly have an > internet connection. Oh well... My idea sucks... Live with it. > > Er, that's exactly what I proposed when I first brought this up, only not Canonical specifically doing it. :) Cheersm Al. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I have it on my to-do list along with a zillion other things :) > Just to bring to everyones attention that the apt-get series of commands > appears to have been enhanced to do exactly this apt-get mirror for example. apt-mirror is the command I was using, it's been around for some time, and whilst there are a few bugs, it's pretty good at doing what I planned. When I brought it up there was some negative comments, so I kinda went a bit cold on the idea. The were suggestions that it wouldn't be _that_ useful, but I'd be happy to talk about it again and iron out the issues. Cheers, Al. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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