3. VNC is utterly slow in comparison to console access 4. VNC won't work if the system/network is broken Carl, I know this is probably overkill and out of the price range, but an IP-KVM would work perfectly if you can't get long enough cables. -Andy On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < chrome at real-time.com> wrote: > On 03/04 08:51 , Justin Vogt wrote: > > Why not just use VNC? > > 1. Because that still requires a computer near me, with the attendant noise > and > cooling issues. (I'm hoping to put the computers in a cool room in the > basement to reduce my A/C requirements in the summertime). > > 2. Because it's cheaper to move the computers to another room and buy long > cables, than buy newer, quieter computers. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100304/c324a150/attachment-0001.htm