On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, der Mouse wrote:
> > A decent (though not terribly crafty) analogy is that the computer is
> > now like a pad of paper and a pen. You come in and use the paper
> > that you need, then rip those pages out and take them with you. The
> > pad is then made fresh for use for the next person.
>
> This would be good, if it were the way it worked.
>
> Places that do that (start clean for each new user) are notable by
> their rarity - and how many of them do you think went to the trouble of
> making sure their motherboards either didn't have flashable BIOS or had
> a hardware disable on it so that you can't reflash them without opening
> the case? I'd guess it didn't even cocur to most of them.
My idea was more akin to the hardware not having any OS to begin with. It
would be a diskless workstation basically, with your CD or keychain USB
hard drive supplying the OS and all your apps. You plug it in and boot;
your environment comes up, you do your business, then you unplug and move
on. Hardware is cheap, almost worthless these days. The software/data is
everything.
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Received on Thu Apr 22 2004 - 23:58:27 BST