On Mar 5, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Elia Stupka wrote: >> As I said, I guess this depends on scale. I'm part of a team of four >> that run a cluster of over 1200 machines. They're physically >> located in a building 500 metres from my office - I really need to be >> able to do almost anything to them remotely, short of having to >> physically remove them to change parts, and without having to use a >> mouse. > > Hey Tim, talking about remote management, do you still have > management-via-PDA-linux-terminal, or was that a only James thing? ;) :-) Ah those were the days, using the Psion7, ssh, 802.11 and a window to reach all the consoles on the farm, while drinking coffee in the DiNA. True 'technobliss'. p.s. On the current CPU DSW, did some one mention IA64? oops. I think that was me... Ahem. :-) J. -- James Cuff, D. Phil. Informatics Systems Architect #2106, MIT CGR, 320 Charles Street, Cambridge, MA 02141-2023 Tel: 617-252-1925 Fax: 617-258-0903