Agreed. You could get a diskless thin client running XPe (Windows XP Embedded), and set IE as the shell with a useful default homepage. We do similar things at my work.
I thought it was extremely silly that this showed up on Wired.
Now it's doubly silly that it's shown up on Slashdot.
I find it interesting that the articles which have responses along the lines of the above tend to generate the greatest number of intersting discussions and comments. If these articles generate the traffic and interaction between/. readers, then it is not silly for the Eds to post them.
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Agreed. You could get a diskless thin client running XPe (Windows XP Embedded), and set IE as the shell with a useful default homepage. We do similar things at my work.
I thought it was extremely silly that this showed up on Wired.
/. readers, then it is not silly for the Eds to post them.
Now it's doubly silly that it's shown up on Slashdot.
I find it interesting that the articles which have responses along the lines of the above tend to generate the greatest number of intersting discussions and comments. If these articles generate the traffic and interaction between