On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 6:18 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at 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! :-)