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[Baker, George]

Hi
I noticed there were no complaints when someone was offering work.

Time to drop the subject I think its becoming like work
George

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The other thing I hate on mailing lists.

[Colin Johnston]

I was wondering if this is feasible and a useful idea

As we all know there are a wide range of active wireless lans avail in the
local area.
Technology should be used to better the community.

Idea is to setup a private ip space secondary ip network with a server with
the latest OS patches for various archs.
In this way we can say to people even if you don¹t have internet access it
is no excuse since you can use this wireless security network to update your
pc/mac etc.

Colin Johnston

[Joel Merrick]

Post by Colin Johnston
I was wondering if this is feasible and a useful idea
As we all know there are a wide range of active wireless lans avail in the
local area.
Technology should be used to better the community.
Idea is to setup a private ip space secondary ip network with a server with
the latest OS patches for various archs.
In this way we can say to people even if you don¹t have internet access it
is no excuse since you can use this wireless security network to update your
pc/mac etc.

Don't think that's *such* a good idea to be honest mate.. Interesting
though and has some scope.

For starters you'd have to keep patches for a hell of a lot of distro's
and OS's.. plus how exactly would you distribute those. You'd have to
pull all of the patches etc.. down from their respective servers and
then they'd have to be pushed/pulled across the wireless net (which may
not have the capacity nor infrastructure). Someone would have to
maintain the server, disk space etc (maybe it could be done over a
D.F.S?)

Plus, from my perspective, I'd much rather pull the updates over rsync
from the main servers, the second they're available (although I do have
DSL, which kinda makes me exempt from this requirement!)

It is an interesting idea though, but I think it'd need a more
'closely-knit' mesh to be effective. However I'd be happy to mirror
Gentoo and Debian if it gets to that stage.

Post by Colin Johnston
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[Colin Johnston]

See
www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/wus/default.mspx
Recommended diskspace avail 6gb>30gb :)

We might do this at work but only since we have 100mb connection to janet :)

Colin

[Ged Haywood]

Hi there,

Post by Colin Johnston
Idea is to setup a private ip space secondary ip network with a
server with the latest OS patches for various archs. In this way we
can say to people even if you don=B9t have internet access it is no
excuse since you can use this wireless security network to update
your pc/mac etc.

I don't think M1cr0$0ft and Apple would like that very much, and it's
not really necessary for most of the others. If one has no Internet
access I wonder what security threats he's worried about? Perhaps a
floppy or a CD-borne virus, but I can't remember the last time I saw
one.

The idea of using a private network as a secure alternative to the
public network has to be worth some thought, however there are many
administration and performance considerations. Cost might become an
issue, it could use up an awful lot of time and no little hardware.

73,
Ged.