Hi,
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 18:40 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi-de-hi
>
Ho-de-ho.
> Popey floated an idea a little while back about putting the entire Ubuntu
> Repository onto a portable HD for use by those who don't have the ability
> to connect to the Internet or only over dial-up.
>
That's i
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.
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)
Can
Popey replied, when I asked about the size of the repos, that they were
about 30 Gb for 7.0.4, so 170 Gb for all flavours seems quite reasonable.
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
l
It creates an APT repository on a CD/DVD. You are able to select which
packages you want to add to the disc. It's a great way to distribute
updates, etc. to PCs with no internet access.
See the site here: http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/
I filed an issue on Launchpad, since it pops up a dialog wh
I don't know enough about this, but what does aptonCD do?
Andy Loughran
www.zrmt.com
m: 07921076319
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From: "alan c" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "British Ubuntu Talk"
Sent: 25 July 2007 19:04:18 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubun
Matthew Wild wrote:
> On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> The 'Repo on external drives' idea is superb, i often want to install
>> things at work, which is a secure network and hence we cant have internet
>> access to not secured machines, would also be better for big sit
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:15 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote:
> On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anybody know the kind of sizes the repos are?
>
> About 30GB, or so I was told...
I dunno about individual versions and architectures, but its about 170GB
for all curren
On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The 'Repo on external drives' idea is superb, i often want to install
things at work, which is a secure network and hence we cant have internet
access to not secured machines, would also be better for big sites IE
schools/businesses who do
From 'comments' to an interview, (edited for readability), someone asked :
> 'Why don't any of the OSes sandbox everything by now better
protecting users from themselves?'
To which someone else replied:
'So in short nobody's sandboxing a PC any time soon except for running
Windows in a VM, w
The 'Repo on external drives' idea is superb, i often want to install
things at work, which is a secure network and hence we cant have internet
access to not secured machines, would also be better for big sites IE
schools/businesses who dont want to have their proxys loaded with small
.debs (think
Q: Had you considered the possibility that we might actually prefer
Windows, or even think it's better?
A: No, but in all fairness, neither had I considered the possibility
that you might be afflicted with rabies or suffering from fetal alcohol
syndrome.
Just Some Guy on /. (with minor edits
Ah - the joys of contextual advertising - sorry about that.
OK, how about this one:
"It said 'requires Windows 2000 or better' on the box, so I
installed Ubuntu"
Mark
Josh Blacker wrote:
> Great - now I have a bunch of adverts about powerpoint in my gmail!
>
> My personal favourite, on a
* Josh Blacker:
> My personal favourite, on a bookmark trying to be witty:
> "Never try to replace windows on your computer"
Not specifically Windows related, and only vaguely on topic, but by one
of the photocopiers at work we have a sign like this:
http://www.hilarious-pictures.com/content/30
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