Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:53:41 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com Cc: irwanhadi@iname.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, scrappy@hub.org Subject: Re: hotmail now running win2000 Message-ID: <XFMail.000809145341.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200008090517.BAA62285@entropy.tmok.com>
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<moved to -chat> On 09-Aug-00 Brian Hechinger wrote: > Daniel O'Connor drunkenly mumbled... > > Personally I would wire something up to the reset switch instead.. > > Much less potential for accidentally nuking your hardware if your script is > > broken and starts toggling machines on and off like mad.. > > (much less violent on disk etc too) > but how feasable is that for a large installation. would you like to pull > 2000 machines apart and make the needed modifications? the masterswitch > solutions is "plug 'n play" it just a powerstip as far as i''m concerned. Well, if you have a procedure for doing it when you build the machines, it probably wouldn't take much more effort.. The powerstrip is simpler though :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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