[Liverpool] Report from the Liverpool Social Centre meeting

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:29:16 +0100, Bob Ham wrote:

>  Considering that there will be some data that potentially needs
> keeping, 
> > possibly the need for some automatic backups, and the need to share
> > the printers - has there been any mention of possibly turning one of
> > the computers into a server - so that things can be kept a bit more
> > centralised?  
> 
> No talk of that, no.  There are problems with a server.  Firstly,
> running a server requires more electricity which is ecologically unsound
> and an unnecessary expense if the same functionality can be provided
> without a server.  (To be honest, I can't imagine they would be happy
> with this.)

If the data is not too large, and not too sensitive, there are plenty of
cloud based services that give basic storage for free.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

BASIC: (n.) a computer one-word oxymoron.
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