[rescue] FDDI card

Amy scoobydoo at ohno.mrbill.net
Mon Feb 25 03:30:33 CST 2002


On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:08:07PM +1300, Kenneth Dunn wrote:
> >
> > > 3) That whole keyboard & monitor thing.  Sun/Alpha/SGI/etc machines all
> > > have BUILT-IN serial consoles.  The closest thing you can get to a true
> > > serial console on a PeeCee is the PC Weasel, but all that really does is
> > > emulate the monitor & keyboard...turns it into a serial stream.
> >
> > If you're not accustomed to serial consoles then it is a non-issue.
>
> actually, if someone thinks that GUI consoles are the best way to deal with
> SERVERS then it's obvious that not only are they not accustomed to serial
> consoles, they don't know any better.  GUI consoles are LUDICROUS.

why?

--a



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