On 18/02/12 18:42, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 05:39:34PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
In such cases, I will occasionally stop by the colo without going home to retrieve the laptop. 90% of the time it works out OK. 10% of the time I end up leaving the colo, going home, retrieving the laptop and returning to the colo. Obviously, if there was a loaner laptop available for a $15 rental in the colo as described, it would probably be worth $15 to me and/or my organization to avoid the delay and bother of the round-trip between colo and home.
As previously advised, typing passwords/phrases into such devices is... not recommended. At $ORK, we've got DC tech laptops in each suite for just such occasions, preconfigured with everything you might need (bookmarks into all internal systems and likely wiki pages, a "DC tech" jabber account, etc). Works well, and I'm sure they've paid for themselves many times over.
The old colo at $JOB[-1] used to have an old Wyse 50 kicking around which I was happy enough to use (yes they can still be made to snarf credentials, but it's less likely) once or twice when I forgot my USB-Serial.