From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo"
 wrote:
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>Anyway, I then left it laying around the livingroom, when you boot it you
>get linux gui and it autoconfigures the internet connection. Anything else
>you would have to configure yourself, GAIM, email, whatever, each time you
>boot it. I never thought it would get any use except for quick internet
>browsning.

I believe that with some live CDs you can save the configuration settings
and any data files to a USB key. Each user can have their own key. From
another viewpoint, with a live CD and the USB key in your pocket you have
your own environment wherever you can borrow a computer.

>I'm sitting here thinking, it's got a browser, it's got telnet, it's got a
>news reader, there's even a CD bootable version that has all the security
>tools you could ever want.

Good definition of an "Internet appliance".

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