[150301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Feb 21 04:55:38 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1202201028370.2201@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:50:15 -0800
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:34 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, John Osmon wrote:
>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> Then I fixed something while they were still looking for USB-Serial,
>> etc.
>=20
> 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?
>=20
Actually, everything necessary to do that is present in the new Macbook =
Pros with Thunderbolt.
It would just take a dongle with the VGA input and the USB outputs and =
some minor changes to "Target Display Mode" Software.
Owen
