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Re: WOS FTP mirror?

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From Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net>
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Subject Re: WOS FTP mirror?
Date Sat, 15 Jul 2017 23:09:01 +0100
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On 15 Jul 2017 13:12:09 +0100
"Chris" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 17:03:30 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were
> rappin' to MC Duncan Snowden:
> 
 
> > How about setting up a spare machine with a minimal Linux distro
> > that boots to the commandline without starting too much irrelevant
> > crap (Arch or Void would be my picks), give it a few hundred Gb of
> > swap space, and leave it to chew on it for a few days?  
> 
> Or... I could just keep it as-is safe in the knowledge that I have a
> copy should I ever need it, and never actually use it.

Well... yeah, you *could*. But where's the fun in that?

I'm not entirely sure where the fun is in leaving a computer churning
away in the corner for a few days either, but still... it's the
principle of the thing. Or something. Probably.

> Sort of like those people that buy two copies of everything just in
> case one breaks, which it never does (there are people like that,
> aren't there?).

What, with more money than sense?

(But yes, I did say that's the important thing.)

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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