No laptop? Try the virtual computer

“The idea is that no one needs to carry a laptop or pen drive around. You can upload any files to the website and access it from any corner of the world. What you need is just an interface to access the Internet”

KOZHIKODE, INDIA: K. Ansar and P.P. Ismail, final year computer science students at an engineering college in Vatakara, about 45 km from here, have set up www.bloxtr.com, the prototype of a virtual computer in ... via CIOL

[Amar Ahmed Abdulla]

Great , let them exploit and introduce the possibilities of the Open Source... Wish those students All the Best..

[P-S-S]

Amar Ahmed Abdulla wrote:

Great , let them exploit and introduce the possibilities of the Open Source... Wish those students All the Best..

Sorry but what is a virtual computer? Don't really understand how that might work?

[Paul in SC]

Sounds good to me. I used to use a web drive for backing up important files. Although I never fully used the web drive's possibilities, it could have stored all the stuff I might need for a business meeting, helping to relieve the fears of losing or having damaged disks or something happening to the the laptop right before a big meeting. Going one step further and being able to run software on a virtual computer would be neat, but wouldn't it require a really good Internet connection, something you're not guaranteed when you're on the road?