Linux killer!

[Philip Prindeville]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:

>>>>>>"Bill" == Bill Perkins <perk at iag.net> writes:
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>
>    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