On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:14 +1100, Dave Hall wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:46 +1100, Sebastian wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I thought about this a bit and while I wanted to give my mum the > > latest bling of jaunty I honestly don't think she will care that much. > > > > So 8.10 it will be - at some stage she will need to upgrade to a new > > release... maybe to 9.10? > > If you want to give her something solid and won't require upgrading so > regularly, throw hardy (8.04LTS) at her. LTS releases are supported for > 3 years and have longer release cycles. Wait for the .1LTS release to > dodge the nasty bugs that seem to creep in at the end of an ubuntu > release cycle. >
Indeed, thats what I thought as well after I wrote the last post :-) > > I will make sure here home is on a separate partition and I set up > > some backup routine for her... maybe simply a dropbox 'mirror'. > > Given what has happened recently with ma.gnolia and some blog platform, > I wouldn't trust cloud solutions as your only backup option. If they go > under or stuff something up, she doesn't know about and then something > happens, she is left with nothing. I would suggest having some > redundancy of providers if you wish to go down this road. > I know that you should not rely on the free services as they can stop their service any time without reason. So I though I get her a (cheap) 4 gig usb dongle which will go on the back of her computer. Then I set up sbackup which I quite like to backup ~ /etc and ? on a regular basis. sbackup comes with automatic deletion of old backups and given the fact that she wont store much music or pictures the backups could go back a long time b4 they are deleted. On top of this I can still setup dropbox. What do you think? > > Regarding the ISP, yes I'd agree that the free quota for the updates > > is very cool. But last time I checked Internode or iinet where either > > pricey to change to or not available where I live (the exchanges > > around me have all already the faster DSL only Narrabeen not...) > > Internode have the largest number of ADSL2+ dslams of any ISP. I don't > know about your mum's situation, but most of my family is more than > happy with 512/128 from internode for $40 per month. I can't see that > being considered pricey when you look at what you get for your money. > With ISPs I have found it is a case of cheap, reliable, good customer > service - pick 2. > As replied to Barry I will look into this again. Last time I checked the cost for me to switch was quite high Cheers, Seb > Cheers > > Dave
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