[150255] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: WW: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Pfankuch)
Mon Feb 20 11:43:00 2012
From: Blake Pfankuch <blake@pfankuch.me>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:41:40 +0000
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1202201028370.2201@soloth.lewis.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I too would be VERY interested in something like this. There are many time=
s when I am out on site with customers who don't have anything connected to=
it and you need to figure out what is up. Even a VGA input USB keyboard/m=
ouse and application to match it for an Android/iFail tablet would be AWESO=
ME. I'm sure our office would buy about 10 of them the first week they wer=
e out... I have USB inputs on my tablet that work for USB headphones and U=
SB keyboard so I would think it would just be driver and software fun....
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis@lewis.org]=20
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:35 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, John Osmon wrote:
> At my $JOB[-1] they laughed at me when I pulled a Wyse out of the=20
> trash bin and stuck it on a spare crash cart.
>
> Then I fixed something while they were still looking for USB-Serial,=20
> etc.
Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device abou=
t the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless machi=
nes in colos that would give you keyboard, video & mouse. i.e. a folding n=
etbook 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=20
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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