drewy
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Hi,
Don't know if this is the best place to post, but here goes anyway....
I work for a large multinational and as such we support a great deal of users who have comapny laptops. Now these laptops are fairly well ties down and the users aren't allowed to install any software onto them
All network settings, web browers etc are configured to run through company proxy servers and firewalls.....
A large number of users would love to be able to use their laptops for ocassional web browsing from home (without having to connect to the company servers etc....). Since they can't install any software on the machine, they can't....
I was wondering whether this could present an oppourtunity for a switched on kind of isp. I can see a way around this problem. Some thing like a small bootable linux distro on a cd, with some thing like firefox as a browser. This cd could boot the laptop connect to the isp via the inbuilt modem and simply bill to the users phone account. This way they could have internet access without installing anything on the laptop, pay their own bills and not have to worry about the firewalls etc.
Any takers?
Don't know if this is the best place to post, but here goes anyway....
I work for a large multinational and as such we support a great deal of users who have comapny laptops. Now these laptops are fairly well ties down and the users aren't allowed to install any software onto them
All network settings, web browers etc are configured to run through company proxy servers and firewalls.....
A large number of users would love to be able to use their laptops for ocassional web browsing from home (without having to connect to the company servers etc....). Since they can't install any software on the machine, they can't....
I was wondering whether this could present an oppourtunity for a switched on kind of isp. I can see a way around this problem. Some thing like a small bootable linux distro on a cd, with some thing like firefox as a browser. This cd could boot the laptop connect to the isp via the inbuilt modem and simply bill to the users phone account. This way they could have internet access without installing anything on the laptop, pay their own bills and not have to worry about the firewalls etc.
Any takers?























