[clue-tech] Strange hardware thought

[Nate Duehr]

Bruce Ediger wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Chris Hirsch wrote:
> 
>> Is there a field unit that will do IP KVM? Several years ago I found a
>> unit for around $300 that would do exactly as David wanted. Basically
>> the ability to plug in the cables from a computer into a box and then
>> you plug that box into your laptop and viola you can see the screen.
> 
> What about PC Weasel?
> 
> http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html
> 
> I have no experience of it at all, it just seems really cool. I ran
> across the PC Weasel web page a few years ago, while trying to get
> a hand-me-down Gateway PC to boot headless.  No luck on the headless
> booting, and no money to buy a PC Weasel, either.

Nice idea, but it probably won't work in most of the 1RU servers out 
there these days...

The real answer is to put the technology in the laptop the tech is 
carrying to use the monitor and keyboard he's also already lugging 
around, as part of the laptop, to plug into OTHER machines.

Nate