On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:34 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, John Osmon wrote: > >> At my $JOB[-1] they laughed at me when I pulled a Wyse out of the >> trash bin and stuck it on a spare crash cart. >> >> Then I fixed something while they were still looking for USB-Serial, >> etc. > > 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? >
Actually, everything necessary to do that is present in the new Macbook Pros with Thunderbolt. It would just take a dongle with the VGA input and the USB outputs and some minor changes to "Target Display Mode" Software. Owen
