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echo: rberrypi
to: ADRIAN CASPERSZ
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2017-05-19 17:57:00
subject: Re: Thin Client replaceme

On 19/05/17 17:40, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> On 18/05/17 16:01, Robert Latest wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> we're looking to replace the expensive, virus-ridden, wall mounted "Thin
>> Client" Windows computers with something cheap and safe. The tasks are:
>>
>> - IP address over DHCP
>> - some terminal windows (to telnet into an ancient mainframe)
>> - web browser
>> - no network connections accepted from the outside
>>
>
> Me scratches head. How come the existing thin client machines got
> viruses? They should have no direct route themselves to the internet!
>

Maybe that's why the replacements are not going to.

> Android TV boxes are also cheap, and have fast GPUs....
>

Hardware aint the problem.

Its the software config




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