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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Good ideas guys, but consider that
conventional drives get damaged if they are thrown around and they
will be with the mail and couriers. <br>
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Flashdrives are essentially new technology solid state which will
probably stand up better against abuse but in those sizes they are
still expensive...<br>
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Jan<br>
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style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thank
you Celeste!</span><br
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I
forgot to mention that I am donating my 500GB drive for
this. D'oh! But how about we use both if you'd still like to
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Karl,
we need at least 200GB. I'm not sure about cheaper, but
certainly smaller and lighter! I'd like to find out more of
how much the larger ones cost, but right now I can't really
spend much which is why I'm donating what I already have.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Karl
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<div>Why not use a flash drive? It's cheaper, smaller and
lighter - therefore easier to send - and less prone to
failure from bumps etc.<br>
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<p>I think that is a great idea I will gladly
donate a drive 500GB.... I
like the idea of sender pays and so on ..... I
do think that a week should
surfice rather than 2 ??? Maybeee ... <br>
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I have loads of free software and will gladly
post discs to those who
require urgent patches etc .... <br>
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Celeste<br>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello
all,</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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William, this is related to you asking
donating hdd's in DBNLUG for
Ubuntu and repos. I have an idea and
am posting it here to reach a more
country-wide group. This is the
proposal, I'd like to see what
interest
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif"># The
drive share project</font></div>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">It's
not easy to
get new Operating Systems or
software Repositories on _limited
bandwidth_.
There are many of us in beautiful
South Africa who would love to
receive a
disk filled with Free Software, I
certainly would!</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">I have
the idea to
donate a HDD to be carted around
the country in the spirit of
spreading
more Free stuff. Everyone likes
free stuff! This is version 1 of
the idea,
right now I don't know how well
this will work so please give your
input.</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">The
base of the disk
contents will be GNU / Linux
distributions. There will be a
designated
directory for user contributed
content too.</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">##
Disk</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">One 500
GB SATA drive, formatted as UDF,
with a
directory structure organized for
OS's and software.</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">Why
UDF? Even though it is widely used
by CD/DVD
media the specification allows for
HDD's.</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">*
Because it was designed for
information exchange.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">*
Because it is an
open standard.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">*
Because of
64-bit file size.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">*
Because of unicode file
names.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">I'd
love to hear
criticism of my fs choice, and am
open to all suggestions and
alternatives.<br>
</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">I think
it would be
nice if we can get an enclosure
for the disk, it would certainly
help
connecting it up to your PC's.</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">##
Transport</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">Logistics
would be the hardest part to
coordinate and fund. If I was a
millionaire... I'd buy everyone
DSL
instead ;)</font></div>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">A courier will
cost
some monies, and I am uncertain
how to spread these costs. It does
come to
mind the person receiving pays
COD, and if there is a group of
you in a
region, split the delivery cost
and then shift the disk between
each other.
How does this sound?</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">A quick
search shows
postnet-to-postnet costs R99 for
the first 2kg, there is the
packaging
detail too (air tight required?).
Thus if its pay-before-post it
works out
each person pays for the next
delivery. That means I get to pay
the first
delivery :)</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">##
Schedule</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">We
need to draw up a list of people
who would like the disk, together
with a
loose timeline to keep a decent
schedule. Is 2 weeks per person
enough
time? Listing the schedule to an
optimized path is a heck of a good
idea
too in reducing transport costs.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">That's
the basic idea, loves? flames?
that
is all.</font></div>
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