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Article #899Re: FD error on reboot?
From: Paul Leyland
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:42
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:42
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The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> writes: > Harold Stevens wrote: > > It was better to have a cheap monitor immediately available to walk someone > > through a repair reboot by phone, than buying same-day airfare for me to do > > it myself in person. > > > > Space..I haven't the space..when I reorganise my workshop though the > windoze may go in there, and the Linux become a desktop.. > > Right now I am developing server side PHP/SQL web code on it using the > Windoze to do the editing What I do is keep a spare long VGA cable lying around. I've always got a monitor somewhere in the room within a few metres of a normally headless system. Ok, so the ghosting can be ghastly but it can be endured in an emergency. Keyboards and mice are so cheap and so small that spares are invariably available for emergency use. Paul -- Paul Leyland <pcl23@gen.cam.ac.uk> | Hanging on in quiet desperation is Dept. of Genetics, Cambridge University | the English way. Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK | The time is gone, the song is over. Tel: +44-1223-333963 Fax: +44-1223-333992 | Thought I'd something more to say.
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