Thanks for the tips everyone. I think I need to have a serious sit down and plan exactly how I'm going to go about it.
Best Regards Dave Hanson > From: ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 20 > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:47:19 +0000 > > Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ubuntu-uk-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Please help with research ... (Andr?s Mu?iz Piniella) > 2. Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance. (Dave Hanson) > 3. Re: Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance. (Tyler J. Wagner) > 4. Re: Please help with research ... (Barry Drake) > 5. Re: Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance. (Philip Newborough) > 6. Re: Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance. (Simon Greenwood) > 7. Re: Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance. (Chris Wilson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:36:38 +0100 > From: Andr?s Mu?iz Piniella <andre...@gmail.com> > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Please help with research ... > Message-ID: <BANLkTi=gkv4xt-hz7wteb+6rfe_xey5...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > One more question: > > Should they use wubi, live cd or request install (backup, defrag)... > > On 4/13/11, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > <ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com> wrote: > > Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > ubuntu-uk-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest..." > > > > > -- > Andr?s Mu?iz-Piniella > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:28:42 +0100 > From: Dave Hanson <d.han...@hotmail.co.uk> > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance. > Message-ID: <blu0-smtp49f9090c673b71c472a29ccd...@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > Hiya Everyone, > > I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume > that there are many people on this list who may do something similar? > > I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my > degree (Computer Forensics Bsc), My plan is to promote myself through my > Wordpress powered blog (shameless plug: hansonforensics.co.uk). - It is > on an Ubuntu Server! ;) > > I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow > clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking > GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - > Obviosly not every job would involve huge amounts of data, but some may. > > The main problem is that I would prefer to take either the expected > amount in full and reserve it until the job is completed, with the > option of returning it to the client or take a small diagnostic fee in > advance and log what fee came from who/what job number. > > Could anyone reccomend a plugin or perhaps share how they conduct such > transactions? > > Thanks - And as I say, Apologies in advance for being off topic. > > Dave > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: smime.p7s > Type: application/pkcs7-signature > Size: 2022 bytes > Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature > URL: > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20110414/3a3ba677/attachment-0001.bin> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:45:34 +0100 > From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <ty...@tolaris.com> > To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance. > Message-ID: <1302792334.2730.30.camel@baal> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:28 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: > > I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow > > clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking > > GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - > > Obviosly not every job would involve huge amounts of data, but some may. > > I don't think you'll be able to accept such large files. Is the PHP > upload size limited by available RAM? Even if not, even a typical disk > image is 250 GB these days, and the smallest harddrives people still > regularly use are 40 GB. > > As for the money, it sounds like you want something like Ubercart + > Drupal, not Wordpress. > > Regards, > Tyler > > -- > "Offending fundamentalists isn't my goal ? but if it is an inevitable > side-effect of defending human rights, so be it." > -- Johann Hari > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:57:57 +0100 > From: Barry Drake <bdr...@crosswire.org> > To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Please help with research ... > Message-ID: <1302793077.2232.3.camel@pcspecialist> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 13:36 +0100, Andr?s Mu?iz Piniella wrote: > > Should they use wubi, live cd or request install (backup, defrag)... > > I've asked my volunteers to run the LiveCD .... that way, I can offer > help by running a liveCD on my box while I talk to them. I can't use > wubi as I don't have a computer with Windows these days. > > Regards, Barry. > -- > Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. > http://ubuntuadverts.org/ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:03:33 +0100 > From: Philip Newborough <corenomi...@corenominal.org> > To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance. > Message-ID: <BANLkTinSRmG017UfVSXCnW=yzmmqjzr...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:28 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: > >> I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow > >> clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking > >> GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - > >> Obviosly not every job would involve huge amounts of data, but some may. > > > > I don't think you'll be able to accept such large files. Is the PHP > > upload size limited by available RAM? Even if not, even a typical disk > > image is 250 GB these days, and the smallest harddrives people still > > regularly use are 40 GB. > > > > It is probably doable, but probably not practical, at those sizes it > would be quicker to use snail mail. Also, I am not sure what volume of > business you will be doing, but snail mail would probably be much > cheaper too. > > If I was going to provide this service online, my main concern, after > setting up the hosting provisions, would be the client's connection, > as it would be an unknown entity. I would hate to have spent time and > money setting it up, only for it to be useless for the majority of > clients. :( > > I hope this has not put too much of a downer on your idea. Providing a > data recovery service is cool, I am just not sure about the need to > make it more complicated than need be. > > Good luck with it! :) > > -- Philip > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:32:37 +0100 > From: Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> > To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance. > Message-ID: <BANLkTimZ=nj+5vdq38vb4dqgbmsutfy...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On 14 April 2011 15:28, Dave Hanson <d.han...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > > Hiya Everyone, > > > > I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that > > there are many people on this list who may do something similar? > > > > I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my > > degree (Computer Forensics Bsc), My plan is to promote myself through my > > Wordpress powered blog (shameless plug: hansonforensics.co.uk). - It is on > > an Ubuntu Server! ;) > > > > I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow > > clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking GB's) > > and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - Obviosly > > not every job would involve huge amounts of data, but some may. > > > > The main problem is that I would prefer to take either the expected amount > > in full and reserve it until the job is completed, with the option of > > returning it to the client or take a small diagnostic fee in advance and log > > what fee came from who/what job number. > > > > Could anyone reccomend a plugin or perhaps share how they conduct such > > transactions? > > > > Thanks - And as I say, Apologies in advance for being off topic. > > > > I'd also concur that it's not a good idea. Among other things you can't > guarantee the veracity of the file that you receive - that's why you have > MD5 hashes and suchlike. > > At a pinch you could offer a secure FTP/SFTP server but you'd still need to > be able to prove that what arrived at the server was the same as what left > the client, which would seem to be a fundamental component of a computer > forensics service. > > s/ > > > > > -- > Twitter: @sfgreenwood > My CV: http://bit.ly/sfg <http://bit.ly/sfgreenwood_cv>_new_cv > "Is this your sanderling?" > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20110414/3cf5d392/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:46:47 +0100 > From: Chris Wilson <afrowi...@gmail.com> > To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance. > Message-ID: <BANLkTi=dpf8ukm5gmlcqkmae+v__sau...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > If it was me, I wouldn't attempt to do these things using my own hosted > services for fear that something would go wrong due to my inexperience, > tarnishing my reputation with the clients. Instead, I would use Amazon Web > Services (http://aws.amazon.com/) for accepting the disk image. AWS is a > company spun off from amazon.com for the purpose of commercialising the > technology the Amazon uses in it's own operations, and one of the > services available is S3 (Simple Storage Service http://aws.amazon.com/s3/). > You would simply send your client a link that would allow them to upload > their image and you would download it at your end. There's also a number of > consumer-oriented services that use S3 that you could look at ( > http://aws.amazon.com/customerapps/Amazon-S3/Consumers). > > As for payments, I've used PayPal for selling stuff on eBay, including > issuing refunds once of twice, and it exactly fits the specification you > described - money can be held in PayPal for some amount of time and parts of > it can be withdrawn to you bank account, or you can hit the 'Refund' button > to send it all back to the client. The connection to paypal.com is also > encrypted by default, which is one less (very expensive) thing you would > have to worry about yourself. There's also Google Checkout and Amazon have > their own checkout system. > > But this all depends on how much trust you're willing to place in > third-party hosted services. Personally, I've always found that using > someone else's tried and tested product/service, rather than building my > own, is always far easier than trying to reinvent the wheel. > > Hope that helps, > Chris > > On 14 April 2011 15:28, Dave Hanson <d.han...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > > Hiya Everyone, > > > > I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that > > there are many people on this list who may do something similar? > > > > I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my > > degree (Computer Forensics Bsc), My plan is to promote myself through my > > Wordpress powered blog (shameless plug: hansonforensics.co.uk). - It is on > > an Ubuntu Server! ;) > > > > I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow > > clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking GB's) > > and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - Obviosly > > not every job would involve huge amounts of data, but some may. > > > > The main problem is that I would prefer to take either the expected amount > > in full and reserve it until the job is completed, with the option of > > returning it to the client or take a small diagnostic fee in advance and log > > what fee came from who/what job number. > > > > Could anyone reccomend a plugin or perhaps share how they conduct such > > transactions? > > > > Thanks - And as I say, Apologies in advance for being off topic. > > > > Dave > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20110414/e04fcef9/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > -- > ubuntu-uk mailing list > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > > End of ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 20 > *****************************************
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