On 6/20/06, Dave McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
*laugh* Interesting, I have remote console access for my unmanned sites, but you'd better believe the first person who takes the ASCII terminals out of those rooms will be looking for a job the next day.
I'm with you 100% on that one. At every large company I've worked, all Unix systems were accessible via terminal-servers. Some of the sites had terminals in the server room for local administration when you needed it (ie: replacing drives, upgrading RAM, server installations, etc.). I was amazed that some of the sites didn't have them... and required you use "hyperterminal" via a USB to serial adaptor. I can't imagine a more painful method of administering a Unix system. I felt bad for the windows admins... they outnumbered us Unix geeks by between 2:1 and 20:1 (depending on the site) even though the number of Unix servers was the same or greater... we always had time to do actual work while they were constantly having to run to the server room to reboot a windows "server" because they couldn't reach the GUI remotely.
My original point, however, is that servers in a datacenter are a very bad place for graphical consoles. Is my opinion on this matter commonly held? Nope. Do people laugh at me for it? Yes, on occasion. Do the companies I work for clamor all over themselves for the uptime stats that I deliver to their production groups? Yup.
I, personally, find a "server" that requires a GUI to be a bit more than a bit humorous. :) Whenever I see how horribly inefficient it is for my coworkers to administer their windows boxes click-wait-click-wait-click-try_and_find_the_next_place_to_click... ARG! Cygwin is the only thing that keeps me sane when using windows at work. What a coworker was doing that would have taken hours took me a few seconds with the bash shell on the same box. A GUI is _not_ efficient at all... it is just slightly easier to _learn_ because it is less intimidating. -Kevin _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
