From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 8 22:12:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from entropy.tmok.com (entropy.tmok.com [204.17.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC9537B9FA for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:12:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wonko@entropy.tmok.com) Received: (from wonko@localhost) by entropy.tmok.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA62285; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 01:17:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Hechinger Message-Id: <200008090517.BAA62285@entropy.tmok.com> Subject: Re: hotmail now running win2000 In-Reply-To: from "Daniel O'Connor" at "Aug 9, 2000 2:29:49 pm" To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 01:17:29 -0400 (EDT) Cc: scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, irwanhadi@iname.com Reply-To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com X-Useless-Header: why? because i can. X-Organization: The Ministry of Knowledge X-Dreams: an OpenWin that is based on current MIT X11 releases X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. just food for thought. -b To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message