This is surely a great idea, but this can be accomplished using tools
that are in the default installation.

Instead of creating a new daemon to sit there idle for 1-2 months at a
time and using memory when it's not needed (even if it's very small), we
can setup a 'root' cron job to run a simple script that would make a
dump of "lshw" "lspci -v" and "lsusb -v". These utilities do have to be
run as root for all low level results.

I could probably write a simple shell script that can run each of the
commands, but I will need some help for doing an HTTP upload to an
anonymous Launchpad dumping ground. I'm sure that can be done with a
simple Python script, or using wget to do an HTTP POST to a certain URL.

Any help or thoughts would be appreciated.

Find attached to this comment the output of 'lshw' 'lspci -v' and 'lsusb
-v' on my desktop box for an example.

** Attachment added: "hwout.txt"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16684461/hwout.txt

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