Inexpensive remote KVM
Back when I was starting my first career (IT), we had a clunky first-generation remote keyboard/video/mouse system (I think it was a Cybex Key-View II , or maybe the XP4000 system ?, but I’m not 100% on that; I ran the UNIX® (later Linux) machines, and didn’t have to console in, like, ever ... especially compared to the Windows NT admin!). It did the job but it was creaky and slow and I don’t even want to think about how expensive it was. Yesterday, I hooked up a $75 GL.iNet Comet (GL-RM1) Remote KVM Over Internet device to my AI workstation . (I also got the $15 ATX add-on, but I haven’t hooked that up yet.) Remote KVM connected to workstation OMG, this thing is amazing. No proprietary software to load, I just pointed Chrome at a local URL (https://glkvm.local/) (with a bad certificate, but whatever), and boom, I had a console on the workstation in a browser on my laptop. I was able to use F12 to access the boot menu and direct it to an attached flash drive loaded with Ubun...