# IT/Programming Help **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 20, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-programming-help/242959 "2009-03-20T13:49:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Jimmerz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jimmerz/32/6370_2.png) [@Jimmerz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jimmerz)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-programming-help/242959/11 "2009-03-20T19:11:50Z")
> [@The perfect time-waster for work](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-perfect-time-waster-for-work/15881/5): > > Hey guys. I’m working on a project where I am trying to set up a remote controller using a linux program that will run behind the windows OS. > > Basically, here is the story. We give out a laptop. We want to be able to shut down the laptop in the event a customer falls behind on a payment. > > I am not looking for code as much as i’m looking for logic to start with. > > We would like to start out by having the PC check in with the host server. This is as far as I have got. I can easily track the laptop but im having trouble coming up with a way to control the features such as on/off since im working with Linux behind windows. I think this is where the problem is coming from. > > The only real idea I have jotted down so far is to look into the possibility of canceling the product code on the PC so that the OS stops working. Once the payment has been made I can go ahead and restart the product code. The only problem im thinking will happen is that Microsoft dosen’t like one product code being used to many times so I think i’ve already shut that idea down. Any help appreciated… well if its linux or unix behind windows then there has to be a unix or linux partition of some sort correct? if thats the case bypass win-blows all together and just code it to contact the server download a boot file to force it to bypass or overwrite windows boot.ini and just force it to loop or shut down or maybe boot linux or unix os that automatically scripted to log in by itself and connect to the server and once it finds a payment has been made another file is downloaded to reverse the boot options and presto win-blows now has control again? probly sounds easier then it is… if its even possible but i would think this day in age there has to be a way to do it. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-programming-help/242959)._