[Powerstation-discuss] Internet Kiosks For Occupy

[Corey McGuire]

So, I've been working on turning some old, 486 laptops in to xterms for
Occupy.  They are uniquely suited because they have detachable keyboards,
meaning the brains, peripherals, and cabling would all originate from the
"screen".  They also have two PS2 ports making for easy use with-in a kiosk.

I have X running on them, though there is a huge stack of optimizing I am
doing, and then I hope to have an application server they can use that will
do all the actual thinking, running on a 1.2GHz Via C7 ITX box.

The Via system runs <10 watts, the laptops have PSU's rated for 30 watts,
but without batteries (we wouldn't want batteries if we are running off of
battery power) I am fairly certain they would suck less than 15 watts and
probably even less than 10.

I see more work ahead outside of the terminal parts:

   - User experience
   - networking
   - installation
   - secutity

The user experience, I would like to limit to a single "tabbed" browser, or
more accurately, a non tabbed browser limited to one window.  Who has seen
this?  What can we do, here?

Networking...the eternal question.  I think wired locally so they are hard
to disrupt, but after that?  I don't know what you've got.

Installation...how and where?  I am thinking about getting a sheet of
steel, plasma cutting some bezels, bending it in to shape, and throwing a
pad lock on it.  But that's just one idea.

security, what unobvious things should we think about?

Thanks!

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