[geeks] NEEDED: terminal for my Suns...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 @ 23:34 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:01:16AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > That's besides the point though: what I mean is none of my equipment
> > uses RJ-45, it all uses DB-25 serial ports.
> 
> RJ45F to DB25M/F and DB9M/F adapters are around 36 cents each on
> monoprice.com - 

Yeah, I know they are cheap.

Didn't know about monoprice.com though. I need to get some other cables
too, so I might as well try them.

They are cheaper than some of the ebay sources.

I wish there were stores like this locally.

> Ordering more than i needed turned out to help, when we found a Cisco
> 2511RJ (has 16 RJ45 ports on the back instead of a hydra cable) in a
> junk pile and resurrected it to act as a console server for some "not
> quite as important" boxes in order to get rid of a lot of 21" CRTs and
> keyboards/mice in the datacenter.

Thing is... you probably save enough on power to buy a new one in many
cases.

-- 
shannon / There is a limit to how stupid people really are, just as there's
-------'  a limit to the amount of hydrogen in the Universe.  There's a lot, 
but there's a limit.  -- Dave C. Barber on a.f.c.