13 Jul
2001
13 Jul
'01
11:28 a.m.
On July 13, Tom Uban wrote:
I run a sparc IPX with NetBSD as my firewall. I use
the serial console
so that I don't have to have a big non-multisync monitor and/or extra
keyboard/mouse pair sitting on my desk. The box is plenty fast enough
for a firewall and it sits there running quitely month after month, quite
happy. It is on a UPS:-)
Ahh, sanity! Bravo! The idea that "every computer must have a
bitmapped display, a keyboard, and a mouse" that the PeeCee world has
infected us with is utterly ridiculous.
-Dave McGuire
13 Jul
13 Jul
11:53 a.m.
I run a sparc
IPX with NetBSD as my firewall. I use the serial console
so that I don't have to have a big non-multisync monitor and/or extra
keyboard/mouse pair sitting on my desk. The box is plenty fast enough
for a firewall and it sits there running quitely month after month, quite
happy. It is on a UPS:-)
Ahh, sanity! Bravo! The idea that "every computer must have a
bitmapped display, a keyboard, and a mouse" that the PeeCee world has
infected us with is utterly ridiculous. 
2:29 p.m.
You should run a serial terminal on your main Linux system too! 8-)
Peace... Sridhar
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:
Ahh, sanity!
Bravo! The idea that "every computer must have a
bitmapped display, a keyboard, and a mouse" that the PeeCee world has
infected us with is utterly ridiculous.
I think you'll find most people on this list have computers
with only a serial terminal. Other than my main Linux system
and my laptop (and excluding my wife's system and her laptop),
everything else is connected to a terminal server.
3:34 p.m.
You should run a serial terminal on your main Linux
system too! 8-)
Peace... Sridhar
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > Ahh, sanity! Bravo! The idea that "every computer must have a
> > bitmapped display, a keyboard, and a mouse" that the PeeCee world has
> > infected us with is utterly ridiculous.
>
> I think you'll find most people on this list have computers
> with only a serial terminal. Other than my main Linux system
> and my laptop (and excluding my wife's system and her laptop),
> everything else is connected to a terminal server.
I use the main Linux system as an X display server.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
12:25 p.m.
At 04:28 PM 7/13/01 -0400, you wrote:
On July 13, Tom Uban wrote:
Right! I have a 6-to-1 RS-232 switch with one vt320 on one side,
and on the other sides I have 1) hp380, 2) Decstation 5000/133,
3) Vaxstation 2000, 4) and 5) misc. 68hc11 boards...
Saves a lot of space :-) .
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
I run a sparc IPX with NetBSD as my firewall. I
use the serial console
so that I don't have to have a big non-multisync monitor and/or extra
keyboard/mouse pair sitting on my desk. The box is plenty fast enough
for a firewall and it sits there running quitely month after month, quite
happy. It is on a UPS:-)
Ahh, sanity! Bravo! The idea that "every computer must have a
bitmapped display, a keyboard, and a mouse" that the PeeCee world has
infected us with is utterly ridiculous.
-Dave McGuire
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