All good stuff, but is " decreases the number of unlock patterns an attacker must try by 70 percent" right? If there are 12 options and I guessed randomly, I'd expect to have to try 6 before I got it. They reduced this to 3.6, which I make a 40% reduction - have I missed something?
We recently cycled to his home shaws corner and on display are the colour coded "FAQ" letters that his secretary would send back to questions about vegetarianism etc.
I take the fact that you've asked to be an indication that you have money to spend, so I assume you've got beyond the `replug it' level. You fail to mention whether you have more than 4 machines -- this seems to be the cut-off between a cheapo box and a serious bit of hardware. My suggestion would be to go for systems if you have the space -- one really good high res screen, decent keyboard and best mouse/trackball/pad/... you can find, and a cheapo, low-res set. The first you use with X, VNC or whatever for normal use, and the latter you put on a KVM switch for all those `occasional' uses (such as resetting the BIOS).
We use the Dakota vista (old and more expensive) and scout (new, cheap and chearful) for `individual' use up to 4 machines -- as I remember, around UKP 60. They work up to 1600x1289@80Hz, and have the basic facilities (switch using keyboard or pressing button on the box itself, auto scan and the like, and take PS/2 or serial mice).
For our processor farm, we tried a ComSwitch TeamServer QST2/8 but sent it back as it was impossible to select a new port if the current post `broke'. Instead we got a BlackBox ServSwitch. This allow multiple boxes, each with up to 16 ports, to be connected together on a `4 slot' bus which can have up to 4 controlling KVMs at a time. It has various artefacts at 1600x1200, but we bought it to sort out BIOS problems and the like.
Points to look for are
OSD Can it display the currently selected host, or do you have to poke around to work out which the current (broken) host is
control Can you regain control if the current host is bust, e.g. type blind `selct host foo' or at least `go to next port'.
stats If you have multiple KVMs, can you work out which one is using which port
locking If youy have multiple KVMs, can one lock out all other KVMs `by mistake'
fkipping I find I use the facility to go back to the previous host a lot
mice Can it cope with the mouse you want to use and the mouse connectors that the hosts have
resolution You get what you pay for.
bus If going for a multi-KVM system, check that any KVM can access any host, and that all KVMs can be used at the same time.
Don't buy it until you've tried it !
If managing a processor bank in a machine room, consider getting KVM extenders so that you can do it all from your office (we build a Reset Server so that we can reset any machine remotely, and a Console Server so that you can connect to the serial console line once it's got as far as the LILO prompt -- I can now try out iffy kernels from home, and recover if things go wrong!).
The Beeb broadcast Radio5 using RealAudio (except for most live sport coverage) and I've shown my kids some video snippets from an EXCELLENT series called Local Heros (a man on a bicyle's Scientific Heros by location) to explain things in more detail after the programme. Their transcripts are pretty good too...
pgp.net was set up for just this sort of thing. See pgp.net for background info and a list of morror sites (or lookup the TXT RR for www.pgp.net for mirrors -- see wwwkeys.pgp.net for WWW access to to the distributed key servers). Note that none of the keys are in any way checked -- it is up to *YOU* to check the signatures, etc.
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All good stuff, but is " decreases the number of unlock patterns an attacker must try by 70 percent" right?
If there are 12 options and I guessed randomly, I'd expect to have to try 6 before I got it.
They reduced this to 3.6, which I make a 40% reduction - have I missed something?
It says: "A few of the SSDs offer much better value than their solid-state competitors, too."
Is that meant to be "SSDs"?
We recently cycled to his home shaws corner and on display are the colour coded "FAQ" letters that his secretary would send back to questions about vegetarianism etc.
You fail to mention whether you have more than 4 machines -- this seems to be the cut-off between a cheapo box and a serious bit of hardware.
My suggestion would be to go for systems if you have the space -- one really good high res screen, decent keyboard and best mouse/trackball/pad/... you can find, and a cheapo, low-res set. The first you use with X, VNC or whatever for normal use, and the latter you put on a KVM switch for all those `occasional' uses (such as resetting the BIOS).
We use the Dakota vista (old and more expensive) and scout (new, cheap and chearful) for `individual' use up to 4 machines -- as I remember, around UKP 60. They work up to 1600x1289@80Hz, and have the basic facilities (switch using keyboard or pressing button on the box itself, auto scan and the like, and take PS/2 or serial mice).
For our processor farm, we tried a ComSwitch TeamServer QST2/8 but sent it back as it was impossible to select a new port if the current post `broke'. Instead we got a BlackBox ServSwitch. This allow multiple boxes, each with up to 16 ports, to be connected together on a `4 slot' bus which can have up to 4 controlling KVMs at a time. It has various artefacts at 1600x1200, but we bought it to sort out BIOS problems and the like.
Points to look for are
- OSD Can it display the currently selected host, or do you have to poke around to work out which the current (broken) host is
- control Can you regain control if the current host is bust, e.g. type blind `selct host foo' or at least `go to next port'.
- stats If you have multiple KVMs, can you work out which one is using which port
- locking If youy have multiple KVMs, can one lock out all other KVMs `by mistake'
- fkipping I find I use the facility to go back to the previous host a lot
- mice Can it cope with the mouse you want to use and the mouse connectors that the hosts have
- resolution You get what you pay for.
- bus If going for a multi-KVM system, check that any KVM can access any host, and that all KVMs can be used at the same time.
Don't buy it until you've tried it !If managing a processor bank in a machine room, consider getting KVM extenders so that you can do it all from your office (we build a Reset Server so that we can reset any machine remotely, and a Console Server so that you can connect to the serial console line once it's got as far as the LILO prompt -- I can now try out iffy kernels from home, and recover if things go wrong!).
The Beeb broadcast Radio5 using RealAudio (except for most live sport coverage) and I've shown my kids some video snippets from an EXCELLENT series called Local Heros (a man on a bicyle's Scientific Heros by location) to explain things in more detail after the programme. ...
Their transcripts are pretty good too
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pgp.net was set up for just this sort of thing.
...
See pgp.net for background info and a list of morror sites (or lookup the TXT RR for www.pgp.net for mirrors -- see wwwkeys.pgp.net for WWW access to to the distributed key servers).
Note that none of the keys are in any way checked -- it is up to *YOU* to check the signatures, etc.
On the other hand, "The Global Trust Register" does impart a warm glow