Well the winner is (drum roll)....... Nick, do you want to pick the box up (and check out the venue for the Gentoo Installfest - and have a glass of Marlborough's best) or would you rather have me bring it to work?
Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 14 March 2005 10:37 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Free to good home Having made a number of negative comments about the idea of putting a server online for unknown people with unknown agendas and unknown abilities to play DNS/IRC/HTTP/SMTP meister with, I'd like to say that I would really favour setting up (or extending an existing) wireless network, not necessarily with default connectivity to the outside world. It would be good to have local bittorrents for popular isos etc. There would obviously have to be some outside connectivity for people to get useful stuff onto the network. It seems to me that whenever a new distro comes out everyone starts downloading cd1 like mad. Eventually someone will get 5 or so CD's and then start writing them, and some of the others will give up once the isos are available for local burning. Unfortunately bandwidth is still expensive in NZ. This is pretty inefficient. A better situation would be some sort of bulletin board where you can list, say, the CD's in a release, and as someone starts downloading cd1, the next person does CD 2 etc. Much faster. Then those who have them downloaded feed them into the wireless network where (because there is no connectivity to the larger internet) bandwidth is effectively free [1]. They are then available to the whole LUG through, say, bittorrent. IIRC yobbo have a setup, ie effectively free local access. One would want to ensure that it didn't just become a trader point for copyright breaches and pr0n. I don't want to be arrested for inadvertently setting up illegal activity. [1] of course there are infrastructure, equipment and maintenance costs. A decent aerial is not cheap, although asian food warehouses often have good facsimiles of decent aerials. http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/ http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/g.mckenzie/Radio%20Dish/Radio%20aerial.htm On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:43:41 +1300 Andy George wrote: > Mail server - to keep our own mailing list. Nothing wrong with the one we > have already, but "it.canterbury.ac.nz" is more to do with a polytech or > university than a Linux Group. > > DNS Server - to keep and maintain our own domain name for the above (and > anything else we wanna throw in there... like a... > > IRCD - cause we have, in the past, gone banging on about #CLUG channels on > this and that IRCD... when irc.our.own.dns.here can sit quietly in a corner > and look after itself... > > PHP platform - for those forums or CLUG wiki (or personal web projects) we > need our own apache server (and DNS thingy) for... > > HTTPD - Hey! It's there, we dont have one of our own, it's free... Why not... > > FTPD - See HTTPD and think File sharing... maybe parking that example.conf > file for later retrieval (you all remember me harping on about THIS one, dont > ya)... > > If you put your mind to it, there's gotta be 101 uses for server of our own. > We have volunteer with Cable to run beasty... TWO offers for adequate > machinery... HUNDREDS of CLUG users who are Itching to try their hand > (supervised, of course) at making something go... > > Whats left? What else do we need? > > > -- > Andy George > Webmaster, Canterbury Rover Car Club > http://www.roverclubcanterbury.org.nz -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
