Kent Schumacher wrote:
Actually here in Norway home setups beats most of the office installs I work with. People have some real high-end things at home, and low-end at work. Parts of my city has got fiber straight to the house.If they have that sort of bandwidth coming into their homes you would think it would be a natural for someone to export a zero maintainance desktop via LTSP to peoples homes. I can't imagine how many people would jump on that opportunity...
Good idea actually. You could offer advanced printing services (color laser, plotting etc) in some central location, against a small fee. The connections I'm talking about are usually some 20Mbps SDSL connections, or much higher speeds talking the fiber homes. Should be plenty for office/mail stuff. And all backed up! I think I will try a setup. The only thing that strikes me as "difficult" would be the booting, as many of the homes have a router/firewall box with integrated DHCP server (=our enemy). But people would use PII's with a hard drive that could get some boot things written to it. Or some smart thin clients... I know many grandmothers that would be happy to keep in contact with the family, but with that MS box breaking down every second moment... Mail setup and locked down would do it. Someone with the available time should have a look, maybe they could earn a little money on this. Who knows. Arno
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