Re: Linux killer!

From: Philip Prindeville (philipp_subx_at_redfish-solutions.com)
Date: 10/29/05

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    Colin Paul Adams wrote:

    >>>>>>"Bill" == Bill Perkins <perk@iag.net> writes:
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>>
    >
    > Bill> Dual-boot? Lock down XP as much as possible to keep as
    > Bill> single-purpose as possible, and put all the good stuff on
    > Bill> Fedora?
    >
    >Yes. And make sure you have to be able to logon to XP.
    >And then when one of Malcolm's pupils wants to use the Windows Media
    >Player, or whatever, then all (s)he has to do is come to Malcolm and
    >ask for an id to logon to Windows.
    >Fair enough?
    >:-)
    >
    >

    Simpler than that. Convince Linksys, Netgear, or whomever made your
    firewall, to write a translating proxy that takes WMP content and converts
    it (on-the-fly) into MPEG (or Divix or AVC or ...). ;-)

    -Philip

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