Repair Culture

At 02:54 PM 9/23/2011, Al Kossow wrote: "Machine"? You mean VNC to an OS emulated in a VMware appliance, right? And there's room for all sorts of virtual plumbing weirdness to be made, too. You'll want to virtually mount a local floppy, USB device, hard drive, CD drive, etc., too, right, across the cloud? The weirdness is already here. The other day I was working in one VMware appliance and had to move a file to another VMware appliance that couldn't be on the same network, so I moved the file via a virtually mounted floppy on my local machine, first connecting it to one appliance, then to the other. Has anyone ever put VNC in hardware? I'd think someone must have done that for the remote server hosting market. I want a VNC box with an Ethernet jack for my connection, plus cables coming out of it for mouse, keyboard, and VGA, so I can VNC to a machine regardless of whether it's booting or running or not. Yes, there it is: a "dedicated KVM over IP" : ($399) http://www.adder.com/uk/products/IPEPS.aspx http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=15803 And it's even built-in on some new hardware? http://www.realvnc.com/products/viewerplus/index.html http://goo.gl/GtrlP I must've read about it and forgotten about it. - John