Our home has an internet shop which in principle will allow us to generate a small income (this principle is constantly violated). The shop had some illegal software on the computers and was caught by the police. This sounds reasonable until you realize that in every shop around they sell any program you want for $2.50 all illegal of course. Either way, we were caught prior to my arrival and ordered to pay a fine and buy legal versions of Windows. This bastard who worked for the home got $750 to buy legal versions of Windows and bought illegal copies (for a total of $10). Now we have illegal software and risk being fined again. There is nothing we can do to him because he is Thai...we are stuck.
If anyone has a copy of windows XP, or Windows 2000 or knows where we can get legal copies of them I would greatly appreciate it.
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Remove Microsoft Windows and install Ubuntu Linux instead.
I seem to remember that you had specialist software installed on the machines so you could control how long people had access to the computers for - this might be a bit hard to replicate on Linux but it most certainly wouldn't be impossible.
I will have a look around to see if there is anything for Ubuntu that will do the trick.
If this seems like a viable option, don't hesitate to email me to ask any questions if you have any.
thewebmonster at gmail dot com
I was thinking of doing that (I actually brought a copy of that distro with me) but I was not sure about the networking aspect. Do you know much about it?
Networking is a breeze, if you have DHCP (such as a router with it built in) it should just be a case of installing Ubuntu on the computers and letting it do it's thing.
There is a new release out (Dapper Drake) which is worth a look.
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