D'oh! moments

Anthony J. Gabrielson agabriel at home.tzo.org
Thu May 15 08:40:49 EDT 2003


On Thu, 15 May 2003, John Whitfield wrote:

>  > The machine in my basement has no head, and the 
>  > only monitor in the house is my flatscreen up in 
>  > the office. So doing stuff local on the server
>  > means having to take apart my Windows machine and 
>  > lug the monitor downstairs, possibly just to 
>  > issue a 3 second command.
> 
> As a low-tech solution, I always keep a cheap monitor in the basement.  It's an old 14" job and I wouldn't make it my main monitor, but it's enough to serve as a backup or for troubleshooting.

You could also prob put a console on the serial port and throw that over
an ethernet cable up to your computer.  That could potential avert 99% of
the lugging your doing.

Anthony




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