On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, der Mouse wrote:

>> The Sun shall act as a server, giving access to the internet for a
>> small home network.  It shall _not_ be up 24/7 but only when it's
>> needed.  The users of this home network don't know much about
>> computers, they can boot a windows pc and use it as a surf station,
>> but not more.  They can _not_ login via ssh to shut down the server -
>> which would also mean that if they forgot to shut down the server and
>> there was no other computer running, they would have to boot again
>> another computer, just to shut down the server.  In my eyes this is
>> no good solution.
>
> This sounds to me like a perfect situation for burning a custom boot CD
> and running with everything there (and, perforce, read-only).
>
> Alternatively, you could just not bother shutting it down and simply
> turn it off.  Unless you do stuff like async mounts, FFS is fairly
> robust in the face of such things - and it sounds as though it won't be
> doing much writing anyway.

 	Depending on the machine type you could also plug a type 5 or
 	later kerboard into the box and use the power of/on button on
 	the top right.
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