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                              We could use it …

I'm at the office today (which doesn't bother me, since I have to drive
further south to get to the weekly D&D (Dungeon and Dragon) game today
anyway) playing around with the MegaRAC® K1 [1] (which I played around with a
few months ago [2]). The intent is to hook the MegaRAC® K1 into the Beklin
OmniView™ PRO 16 port KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) switch [3] so we can view
the console of our servers remotely.

That's the theory anyway.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice,
there is.

And in this case, the MegaRAC® K1 doesn't quite play well with the Belkin
OmniView™ 16 port switch. It does work in that yes, I can see the console of
one of our servers remotely, but the second I attempt to switch to a
different server (there's a certain keyboard sequence that you need to hit)
the MegaRAC® K1 crashes. It doesn't crash on the keyboard sequence (that
works since the sequence ScrollLock ScrollLock Space will bring up the Belkin
menu allowing you to select the server to display) but the actual switching
that kills the MegaRAC&reg K1, which then requires a power cycle to fix.

I suppose I could plug the MegaRAC® K1 into the the managed power strips [4]
…

[1] http://www.ami.com/k1/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/01/04.3-05.1
[3] http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/f1d116-osd.html
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/05/30.1

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