From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 14:30:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1991B37B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 14:30:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@zaphod.realtime.co.uk) Received: from zaphod.realtime.co.uk ([194.205.134.208]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14xbWv-0008EB-01; Wed, 09 May 2001 22:29:57 +0100 Received: from waynep by zaphod.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14xbWv-00062U-00; Wed, 09 May 2001 22:29:57 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Walter Betancourt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keyboard & monitor plug in w/power on References: <4.2.2.20010509153755.00bb4100@pop3.palace.net> <4.2.2.20010509153755.00bb4100@pop3.palace.net> <4.2.2.20010509163956.00bba4c0@pop3.palace.net> Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 09 May 2001 22:29:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010509163956.00bba4c0@pop3.palace.net> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Walter Betancourt writes: > Wayne, > > that make's good sense, > > you would think some one would come up with an adapter/isolation device > > so there would'nt be a problem plugging/un-plugging. It wouldn't really appeal to me at all. I'd need one for each of my servers (22 at last count), and the cost of 22 devices would be far higher than a lifetime supply of keyboards for the network. Also, with USB keyboards becoming more common, the risk vanishes _entirely_ as USB is hot pluggable. -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message