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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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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


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