Now if only we could mirror the entire repository infrastructure; i.e., all of maemo.org, as restoring applications from the backup list, or installing new applications in some cases, fails with connection errors to repository.maemo.org.

PS: With respect to Nokia, they probably *did* plan for this; they use a global content delivery provider (Akamai) which *should* mean that these sorts of issues aren't the common user experience, but clearly SNAFU is the current operating environment.