Shrook for Mac OS X appears to do almost that, where a central server collects updates and has ONE randomly-chosen client check for updates as frequently as every five minutes, but all other clients just refer to the central server to see if feeds are updated.
"Home on iPod" was originally slated as a feature in Mac OS 10.2, but Apple pulled it at the last minute, and we haven't seen it since. From rumors and early developer information, it purported to do (almost) exactly what you're describing. Walk up to a machine, plug in your iPod, and you're running out of your pocket-sized home directory. There wasn't any kind of suspend/resume, but it was enough to keep your own settings/data/applications with you at whatever computer you happen to be using.
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Shrook for Mac OS X appears to do almost that, where a central server collects updates and has ONE randomly-chosen client check for updates as frequently as every five minutes, but all other clients just refer to the central server to see if feeds are updated.
"Home on iPod" was originally slated as a feature in Mac OS 10.2, but Apple pulled it at the last minute, and we haven't seen it since. From rumors and early developer information, it purported to do (almost) exactly what you're describing. Walk up to a machine, plug in your iPod, and you're running out of your pocket-sized home directory. There wasn't any kind of suspend/resume, but it was enough to keep your own settings/data/applications with you at whatever computer you happen to be using.
Most people switched to Tabbrowser Preferences over TBE when these problems arose.
Now, all we need are NOT gates
They have an inverter eBlock that does exactly that.