From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 8 22:24: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929B837B9FA for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:23:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07429; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:53:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200008090517.BAA62285@entropy.tmok.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:53:41 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com Subject: Re: hotmail now running win2000 Cc: irwanhadi@iname.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, scrappy@hub.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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