murphylawe
New Member
Please don't laugh. I know the folks in this group are gonna say "What's The Point?" or better yet, "Where's Your Tin-Foil Hat?"
That said, I have a puzzle for you... I have been writing and storing 'Survivalist' articles and manuals for some years. I have collected or created thousands of PDF documents covering everything from agriculture, construction, electronics, HAM radio operations, fuel re-processing, herbal medications, a PDR, you name it. It's nearly 2 GBs of files at this point and I have it stored many copies on multiple thumb-drives. I store them in Faraday bags stored in a Faraday cage, one of two insulated 30mm ammo cans. I even have a couple of cheap laptops and netbooks in the cage with them. I will be able to access the data no matter where I am.
Here is my quandary... how can I set up a way of quickly disseminating the information without the benefit of paper?
Many years ago I played with Linux, while working as a teacher. Put it this way, it was so long ago that Debian was new... anyway everything has changed so much. I am envisioning a way to load a simple Linux OS onto a thumb drive along with my PDF documents. I want to be able to hand someone a thumb drive and them have a chance to use the information.
There will be plenty of laptops and netbooks that won't be destroyed, or will be repairable. However, I am betting their OS's will be compromised. Have we advanced to the point where a simple Linux OS can be canned in a thumb drive and set up to automatically install the whole thing as a package onto a wide variety of computers? I remember loading Lucid Lynx on crappy laptops I would buy so my students would have computers.
Anyway, it is just an idea I have had... it would have to be 'Idiot-Proof'. Simple enough that anyone could plug the thumb drive into a USB slot on any laptop or netbook and have better than a 50-50 chance of being able to access the PDF documents. it doesn't have to print, email, access the internet, or anything else. Just open PDF documents, that's all...
Thanks ahead of time for the moment of time you considered it...
That said, I have a puzzle for you... I have been writing and storing 'Survivalist' articles and manuals for some years. I have collected or created thousands of PDF documents covering everything from agriculture, construction, electronics, HAM radio operations, fuel re-processing, herbal medications, a PDR, you name it. It's nearly 2 GBs of files at this point and I have it stored many copies on multiple thumb-drives. I store them in Faraday bags stored in a Faraday cage, one of two insulated 30mm ammo cans. I even have a couple of cheap laptops and netbooks in the cage with them. I will be able to access the data no matter where I am.
Here is my quandary... how can I set up a way of quickly disseminating the information without the benefit of paper?
Many years ago I played with Linux, while working as a teacher. Put it this way, it was so long ago that Debian was new... anyway everything has changed so much. I am envisioning a way to load a simple Linux OS onto a thumb drive along with my PDF documents. I want to be able to hand someone a thumb drive and them have a chance to use the information.
There will be plenty of laptops and netbooks that won't be destroyed, or will be repairable. However, I am betting their OS's will be compromised. Have we advanced to the point where a simple Linux OS can be canned in a thumb drive and set up to automatically install the whole thing as a package onto a wide variety of computers? I remember loading Lucid Lynx on crappy laptops I would buy so my students would have computers.
Anyway, it is just an idea I have had... it would have to be 'Idiot-Proof'. Simple enough that anyone could plug the thumb drive into a USB slot on any laptop or netbook and have better than a 50-50 chance of being able to access the PDF documents. it doesn't have to print, email, access the internet, or anything else. Just open PDF documents, that's all...
Thanks ahead of time for the moment of time you considered it...