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Efika 5200B Project
computer access from any hotel roomin category Operating Systems
proposed by unixbigot on 8th February 2006 (accepted on 10th February 2006)
Project Summary
You travel and have to lug around your laptop - because being out of touch is not an option for a technokrat. You have to lug your laptop everywhere you go; leave it lying around unattended for 10 minutes (or less) and you've lost it! :(So how about if the hotel you stay in lists an EFIKA as a standard room option - available as as reasonable addon to your hotel bill. You'd have the choice of being able to boot up your favorite OS - in my case that would be OpenSolaris. The hotel would guarantee that the "rented" EFIKA would be wiped clean when you leave the Hotel.
Most people just need email and a web browser. However, taking your data on a USB thumb drive would also be an option.
As a sweetner to the deal, the hotel could cache the popular Linux distributions and GNU tools (and, of course, OpenSolaris), so that if you needed to load up a popular tool, it would be loaded at 100mBits/Sec over the hotel LAN saving you a bunch of time and saving the hotel a bunch of Internet bandwidth.
Fast, Cheap, Convient - pick any three! :)
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