Ive wished this for years. Seems like it could be easy to achieve in theory.
-Mario Eirea On Feb 20, 2012, at 11:55 AM, "Matthew Petach" <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> wrote: >> Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device about >> the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless machines >> in colos that would give you keyboard, video & mouse. i.e. a folding >> netbook shaped VGA monitor with USB keyboard and touchpad. I know there are >> folding rackmount versions of this (i.e. from Dell), but I want something >> far more portable. Twice in the past month, I'd had to drive 100+ miles to >> a remote colo and took a full size flat panel monitor and keyboard with me. >> Has anyone actually built this yet? > > Seeing as how most laptops have a VGA connector > and a keyboard/mouse connector on them, albeit > wired in the wrong direction (VGA connector feeds > video out from the video card, keyboard port takes > in input from external keyboard), the wiring and hard > parts are already mostly done; I'd *love* to have a > vendor release a laptop line that has a toggle switch > on it that a) only engages when the laptop is off, and > b) flips the logic--keyboard port gets connected to the > output of the laptop keyboard, and sends data out > rather than receives data, while the VGA port is > disconnected from the video card, and is instead > connected to the LCD panel of the laptop. If an > enterprise vendor added support for a toggle like > that, I'm sure there would be dozens of companies > that would order them in a heartbeat, to be able to > do away with the constant need for crash carts > rolling around the datacenter aisles. Heck, even > I'd order one--I could finally get rid of the old monitors > I keep around the house for debugging random > server problems in the rack upstairs. :/ > > Matt >
