On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 6:18 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote: <snip>
I again offer you my "solution", which is to take with me "Live CDs" for CentOS 5.2 and Knoppix. I reboot the box in an Internet cafe, from a Live CD, do what I need/want to do, and when I am done, I remove the Live CD and reboot the public box again. I have not installed anything on their box and I am much safer, surfing, etc., on a public box.
i'm quite surprised many such internet cafes would let you run your own software on their hardware. many of the 'cafe' systems I've seen are booted off the network, or don't have CD drives, or could even be running Linux already, such as these http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/
I haven't done that often, but the few times I've done it, the boxes had a DVD or CD drive and I was able to boot off the Live CD. Now that I've read what you wrote, the next time I need to use a Public Box, I will try to look at it, first, before I pay, to be sure there's a DVD or CD drive to boot from! :-)