On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:10, Nick Rout wrote: > I am pretty sure the adhoc system thats already in place works. > > its kinda like bittorrent, one person downloads cd1, another downloads > cd2 then you swap via cd's > > besides a dual cpu machine is a bit wasted on cd burning, Yes I agree, but it's there for free. By all means think of a better use, and we'll set it up. A club mailserver is another possibility. Would folks like addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? A bit-torrent host for members with NZ ip addresses is also possible.
Any other ideas people? > and 4G will not get you many iso's There is a CD reader on it already, so something like cat /dev/<cdreader> | cdrecord dev 1,0,0 -d - or whatever it actually is, would do the trick nicely. The 4 Gigs, could be supplemented as needed. I could possibly make another SCSI available if necessary, and I suspect others would emerge from the woodwork if asked for. > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:08:14 +1300 > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:54, Robert Fisher wrote: > > > We have just upgraded our server at home and our old one is surplus to > > > requirements. > > > > > > I would like to give it to CLUG if someone can come up with a use for > > > it (for CLUG - maybe similar to Craig's horse offering) > > > > A possible CLUG community use is for it to be used as a CD-ROM production > > machine. The member housing the machine could download isos from ftp > > archives located within NZ, linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz for example. Other > > members could obtain CDs as required on meeting evenings, or as needed by > > post. I'd be happy to house it for that purpose. I'd expect to be paid > > for, or to be given the necessary CDs. For D/Ls from within NZ I'd be > > happy for the traffic to be gratis. I'm not in a position to give > > electricity 24/7 gratis, so please don't expect another online server > > from my place. > > > > Would members find that to be useful? > > > > --
