[rescue] Just a thought - what would be a good starter SPARC system these days?

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:56:02AM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> at half, when it got down to the nitty gritty, i was standing in front of the
> machines with a laptop and a serial cable.  so X would have been of no use to
> me whatsoever.  this is usually the case though, especially when your serial
> console servers DO work, you need console access a lot of times to take care
> of the "real" problems.  VNC isn't going to do it for you, you must use that
> serial port.  either with a laptop and serial line, or like bill here with an
> actual functioning terminal server (lucky bastard)

yes, its an actual functioning AURA console server (actually, a bunch of serial
ports and special software, hanging off an E250..) - BUT...

I was the poor schmuck who had to hand-wire *SIXTY* of the damn RJ45 to 
DB25 and DB9 adapters.  DCE.

Even now, almost a year later, its still a joke.. "Hey bill, wanna wire 
up some.." " No.  Not only no, but HELL NO.  Take your little blue 
adapters and SHOVE THEM UP YOUR ASS.." 8-)

> when the machines goes all wrong bill, will you be using that Veritas GUI to
> get the machine back up, or will you be using command line?

What the hell do *you* think?  8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX