On Tuesday 18 January 2005 21:41, Ashish Saboo wrote:

Glad some of you are thinking for Cyber cafe solution :)

anybody can change IP address, maybe a more tech savvy customer. Apart from policy issue, it has to be made tamper proof. Today the most contentious point of easy access to Internet access in public domain is that they cannot be traced back , the way a user can be if accessing from home /Office . Apart from the merits/demerits of the arguments. There are hardly viable solution available both cost or technically fit.

Heard of anonimizer.com or proxify.com. Check on the web. If our moral / mind checking police think they can trace teenagers adrenalin pumped porn surfing they need a little rethink.U can point this out to our cops the next time they think of legislation instead of investigation.t

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not my cybercafe - owner is computer illiterate and his staff are taking him for a ride

Most operators are computer illiterate, so what if some one claims them to be in the top 20% of Income bracket.

HA ha. We are still waiting for the cyber cafe's wish list. At least the ones in Mumbai must be too busy counting cash and pirating the next game / movie to worry about piddling legal niceites.

Think of the STD/ PCO booth . A simple box with a bill printing machine helped a rapid penetration of telephone service.

BTW the original billing m/c was mass produced by ex cricketer Brijesh Patel's company in B'lore and had a near monopoly at one time. It was designed by ITI mnakapur (AFAIR).

Sam Pitroda & co can take their credit but only the native vendors push with their crude but yet

What is crude about it?. The specs are simple and permits a simple design.

adaptible time keeping machine made the PCO booth business sell like hot cake ! Why can't this happen with Internet ?

My dear friend surfing the internet involves far too many complex technology bits too enumerate here. But if you scaled the cost of an ISD call (1200 bytes / s * Rs.0.33 * 60 sec = Rs.20) to that of an internet page (30Kbyte / 1200 * 0.33) you would be paying Rs.8.25 per page. So technology has simplified things to the point where costs and complexity (click to connect) have reduced to negligible levels. This arg is ofcourse a bit oversimplified but valid nonetheless. So please do read up a little before comparisons.

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• i (foolishly?) told him that linux will

liberate him

Have u specified the problem? (or rather i have not understood the problem although i am following this thread). dhcp (leases) + bootp + Remote desktop + diskless client - windoze + employee policy Basically redistribution of costs from individual machines to the server. GNU/Linux truly liberates.

rgds jtd