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Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Feb 20 10:35:55 2012
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:34:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120219032255.GA30213@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, John Osmon wrote:
> At my $JOB[-1] they laughed at me when I pulled a Wyse out of the
> trash bin and stuck it on a spare crash cart.
>
> Then I fixed something while they were still looking for USB-Serial,
> etc.
Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device
about the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless
machines in colos that would give you keyboard, video & mouse. i.e. a
folding netbook shaped VGA monitor with USB keyboard and touchpad. I know
there are folding rackmount versions of this (i.e. from Dell), but I want
something far more portable. Twice in the past month, I'd had to drive
100+ miles to a remote colo and took a full size flat panel monitor and
keyboard with me. Has anyone actually built this yet?
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