JESUIT - gadget@TTS -Ep20- Lantronix Spider ubergeek IP-KVM

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If you've ever tried to manage multiple computers, you know how quickly even a well-designed workspace can be overrun by keyboards, monitors and mice. This problem is normally solved using a KVM to manage all computers through one keyboard/video/mouse set, but once the Data Desk turns into a Data Closet and then into a Data Center, traditional KVM solutions are no longer an option because of the bulk of the cables, the limitations of cable lengths and the complexity of routing dozens of cords without impeding airflow and access. For these environments, the IP-KVM has given administrators the ability to aggregate control of multiple systems through an easy-to-use IP addressable interface, with a minimum of cable clutter and the added benefit of making the servers securely accessible from remote locations with nothing more than a web browser.

While such IP-KVM systems are wonderfully useful tools for anybody who has ever needed to administer a server farm or a remote node, the price and complexity of such tools have made most IP-KVM offerings either far too expensive for SMB users or too unreliable for anything more than a home office. Quite simply, most of us don't have $5-20k to drop on an enterprise-class IP-KVM solution, and the products that we can afford are nothing more than KVM "toys" with limited functionality and next to no scalability.

Lantronix has its sights set on changing the status quo by offering an IP-KVM that is affordable, simple enough to use in SMB environments, feature-rich, scalable for enterprise deployment, and designed to provide BIOS-level KVM functionality without demanding a a redesign of your network infrastructure.

Beleaguered admins and victims of "cable creep" --- Meet the Lantronix SecureLinx Spider: 1-port IP-KVM.

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• Spider
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• data
• center
• management
• network
• KVM
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• Securelinx
• SLC

[ki6eki]

ok explain the shirt.. please.

[gadgettts]

Binary is Base2 That means that you add together the bits that a marked as "1"

In other words, say that you have a Byte (8 bits) -- The individual positions are worth (128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1) -- if the binary value is 11111111, then the value is 256 (128+64+32+16+8+4+2+1) --- if the binary value is 00000010, then the value is 2 (0+0+0+0+0+0+2+0)

So, the shirt really reads "There are only two types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't."

[geeksmack]

Not buying a CD-Destroyer: Saving $30

Not paying shipping for sanitizing data: Save $5

Putting out your eye with a high-speed plastic fragment from a snapping CD: Priceless!

[geeksmack]

Soooooo... in other words, you couldn't understand it and it had to be explained to you, and now you feel lame?

[gadgettts]

@rlui123,

The only IP KVM that I've tested that could do that was an ATEN unit. -- I'm sure there are others, but I haven't played with them yet.

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Peace,

Fr. Robert

[rlui123]

@gadgettts can any kvm over ip show full screen video at 30 fps?

[MillBelater]

funny you should mention that, cuz that's what I was thinking. Does the spider do DOS 6.22 or win 98 in Dos mode? I have a mission critical box that has to run dos. Regards.

[PadreSJ]

@MillBelater,

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That sounds like one of those things that go along with those famous last words, "Hey guys... watch this!"

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Peace,

Fr. Robert

[MillBelater]

gasoline and a match will sanitize a cd for about 25 cents.

[superkikim]

this small IP KVM is exactly what I was looking for... But it's far too expensive :-(

[venik4]

The metallic coating does not hold the data. It's just a reflector for the laser beam. What holds the data is the internal side of the plastic that is adjacent to the metallic side. A much quicker and more secure way to destroy optical disks is the microwave. Energy reflects from the metallic coating and melts the adjacent plastic that contains the data. And it only takes two seconds and does not damage your microwave.

[gadgettts]

@Geeksmack: please don't start an insult war on this channel. I value his opinion as much as I value yours. He thinks the shirt was lame, that's cool - there are plenty of other shirts.

[ki6eki]

so basically the decimal value of 2 is 10 in binary.. lame...