On 11/18/2016 02:17 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I need to have a look at second hand laptops. Sure, a minipc would do as well, but a laptop has a keyboard and screen. I'm not confident with a headless thing.
An old HP laptop sits under my desk to server as a MariaDB SQL server. It operates headless for two reasons. 1. Trying to crawl under my desk to tippy-tappy at the keyboard and peer at the screen I'm going to bask MY head in the underside and braces of my desk. 2. The screen is useless, something wrong with the hardware makes the screen a meaningless zig-zag of random colour. So I ssh and ssh -X to it. Its 10Mhz Ethernet port talks happily to my 100Mhz switch, so that's perfectly adequate, when I need it, which lets face it, isn't that often. What matters are some remote monitoring tools that tells me it's all OK and of course the connection to the database. I have FTP and NFS there (and proven they work) if needed but the very little file transfer I've found I need has been done adequately with ssh. That being said .... I have a friend who runs an older multibay chassis as his household NAS. Its a mixed environment, his kids use Windows on their laptops and he frets about PSUs, what RAID to use, ransomware and more. Nevertheless, the idea of a small box, one of the "Raspberry Pi/Arduno in a matchbox" devices http://www.pcworld.com/article/2911098/computers/mini-pc-invasion-10-radical... http://lifehacker.com/five-best-small-form-factor-pcs-1701619172 and large USB drives is appealing. Or perhaps a large SATA/SSD in the same box and USB for expansion, backup and off-lining. If it comes to that I might replace my Dell tower with something like that and free up some physical desktop space. Perhaps Santa will be generous :-) -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org