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Re: Re: Email Appliance - Simple Email for the non 'comp uter literate'



How about setting the machine to run a simple Live CD from this site?
http://tinyurl.com/23nmq

I've only had a quick browse, by chance I found the site through this
Guardian Online article earlier today. http://tinyurl.com/dzbak

Simon



Ward, David wrote:

> And if I can get a screensaver to cycle through preloaded pictures
and/or
> specific flikr content I could package it up in a nice frame like
Quinten.
> (The keyboard could prolly be repackaged or replaced with a small
external
> one)
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> It'd make a nice present and also a good excuse for fiddling with the
> laptop
> and Linux instead of the other jobs on the list....
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Lidstone [mailto:patrick@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 May 2005 13:49
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Email Appliance - Simple Email for the non 'comp
> uter
> literate'
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@s...>
wrote:
> > Interesting idea, particularly if I can lock it down so that I
don't get
> > panicy phone calls saying that email's gone away and it's broken.
> >
> > If it's running in ram disk and booting from a CD/HDD/CF card it
> should be
> > pretty robust
>
> Also forgot to add finishing touch: use kiosk mode on the browser...
>
> Patrick
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