Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-15 Thread Sean Miller
On 15 April 2011 10:29, James Tait wrote: > Some time, somewhere, someone has a spark of an idea. It might seem > ridiculous at the time, but things change, and the simple act of sharing > the idea and getting other minds thinking about it can be enough to make > it happen. > I suppose so... bu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-15 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/04/11 21:52, Sean Miller wrote: [snip!] > Why are we even having this discussion? Because 20 years ago, the idea that billions of people around the world would be connected by a robust, resilient network was unimaginable. 15 years ago, the ver

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Andres
All I can say is if you ever need to do magnetic force microscopy on one of those hard drives i might be able to help put toguether some bits... -- Sent from my Nokia N900 - Original message - > On 14 April 2011 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote: > > Hiya Everyone, > > > > I was wondering if mi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Sean Miller
This is all very well and good, but how many people in this country have greater than 1mbps upload speed on their broadband connections? I would suggest it's a single figure in terms of percentages... So, assuming you can get a high proportion of these people, there might be some hope BUT let's l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Bill Cumming
to the client or take a small diagnostic fee in > > advance and log what fee came from who/what job number. > > > > Could anyone reccomend a plugin or perhaps share how they conduct such > > transactions? > > > > Thanks - And as I say, Apologies in advance for be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Dave Hanson
the person managing the list at > > ubuntu-uk-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest..." > > > > > -- > Andr?s Mu?iz-Piniella > > > > ---

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Rob Beard
On 14/04/11 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote: I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - Obviosly not every job would involve huge amoun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Rowson
> Hiya Everyone, > > I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that > there are many people on this list who may do something similar? > > I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my > degree (Computer Forensics Bsc), My plan is to promote my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Kris Douglas
On 14 April 2011 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote: > Hiya Everyone, > > I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that > there are many people on this list who may do something similar? > > I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my > degree (Compu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Wilson
If it was me, I wouldn't attempt to do these things using my own hosted services for fear that something would go wrong due to my inexperience, tarnishing my reputation with the clients. Instead, I would use Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com/) for accepting the disk image. AWS is a company

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 14 April 2011 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote: > Hiya Everyone, > > I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that > there are many people on this list who may do something similar? > > I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my > degree (Comp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:28 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: >> I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow >> clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking >> GB's) and take payment from them for re

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:28 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: > I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow > clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking > GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - > Obviosly not every job

[ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Dave Hanson
Hiya Everyone, I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that there are many people on this list who may do something similar? I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my degree (Computer Forensics Bsc), My plan is to promote myself thr