A thin client is a computer in client-server architecture network which depends primarily on the central server for processing. ThinClients (last edited. Ok, I've got really a lot of computers standing around here but from time to time I just miss another machine. As I don't want to spend money for an energy wasting high end machine, just to do some minor jobs, surf the web or read my mails I thought of an alternative. So I was very happy when I got a box with a bunch of thinclients from a liquidation. First I wanted to run them with a terminal server, but as I had no free machine (.) I thought it would be great just to convert some of them to normal desktop machines. A thinclient is a normal computer, ok without a high end graphic card, it's got no DVD-/CD-ROM drive, but it's still a common computer. ![]() And a common computer has to boot an operating system to work, maybe via harddisk, maybe via floppy disk, cd drive, usb drive or whatever. Ok, as we see, there's no DVD/CD-ROM and I don't want to buy or use an external DVD/CD drive. No floppy disk drive (even if there would be one, it'd be hard to boot a complete operating system with a gui, browser, mail client, text processing software and other stuff from it. But it's got 4 USB ports. No, I don't want to boot from an external HDD or an USB pen drive. But this device has to boot from something, so it's able to connect to a terminal server. There must be something inside. According to one of my t-shirts with the slogan 'I void warranties', I've got no problem to open cases and devices.
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