[vox] Wildfire Idea to Help Katrina Victims

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i would be willing to help seed a Bittorrent of the kiosk .iso if that 
might help.

Joshua



Steve Hargadon wrote:

>Bill:
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>How hard is it to get an .iso file put up on some kind of mirrored
>sites?  Can you point me toward some resource in this area.  I'm
>afraid if we post the kiosk .iso we'll be unprepared for the
>onslaught.
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>Steve
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>On 8/31/05, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
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>>On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:53:33PM -0700, Steve Hargadon wrote:
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>>>I can set up a website that gives instructions to turn an old P2
>>>computer, 128mb of ram, a nic card, and a working CD into a Firefox
>>>browser kiosk.  Only needs to have a network connection.  Runs like a
>>>champ.  No maintenance.  Nice and zippy.  No OS or licensing issues.
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>>At the very least, I saw do the website, and see if you can poke the LUGs
>>(or other ORGs/NPOs in that area) to see if they have the time/energy to
>>actually gather the hardware and do it.
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>>>We could have instructions, downloadable files, and everything set up
>>>in less than a day.  Then we just have to get the word out.
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>>Slashdot.org's pretty popular.  :^)  It's worthwhile, geeky and Linuxy,
>>so a short blurb about it has a good chance of being accepted.
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>>Smaller sites to hit include DesktopLinux.com, OSDir.com, Linux Weekly News,
>>and probably some other non-Linux sites that I'm not familiar with.
>>
>>Good luck!!!
>>
>>-bill!
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