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I would think for a systems guy who has to manage a load of pcs this could be a sweet thing to keep around your neck. Just pop it in and refresh an infected OS
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Whereas my company has 300 machines of different models, even from the same make, it wouldn't work. On the other hand, we build one image for a particular model that might have 50-75 similar PCs, test the hell out of it with super users, then push the images onto the hard drives. Takes probably 20-40 minutes doing oddball stuff after the image is pushed down to the drive, which takes all of 5 minutes... Updating the various user groups in mass allows out image for that model to maintain a high amount of commonality. IF a machine suffers a drive failure it can be back in under an hour two... Coupled with miniscule server downtime - it's a pretty smoothe operation (Anyone Hiring
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Pushing your agrument a little further, with 512MB sticks of PC133 ram available for less than $40 each, why not run the OS in a ram drive and just output your data dump to your pen drive
or onto CDR...
I agree about the sensors feeding a small processor to do the work could easily be offloaded to CPU's instead. If you think about it, we're probably right around the corner from having these untis run an embedded Linux OS to do just that. Then it would be fairly easy to have all your sensors USB'd into a central CPU
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