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BrentRadio:

I use this:

http://www.notestation.com/rs-212.htm

Just plug a 6 outlet power strip into each one, and there you go!

Brent

crzywolf:

Has anyone tried to use a power strip for servers ? I have seen a few on Ebay for about $45  that plugs in to the serial port of your computer and allows  you cut each outlet on/off . 

bleargh:


--- Quote from: crzywolf on June 22, 2007, 02:26:54 pm ---Has anyone tried to use a power strip for servers ? I have seen a few on Ebay for about $45  that plugs in to the serial port of your computer and allows  you cut each outlet on/off . 

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You mean like the ones from APC?  Geez... I wish I could find one for ~$45.

I've used the APC gear before at our colo and it was great.  Machine ever hang for some reason?  Just log into the power bar (we had the one with an Ethernet port) and tell it to cycle the power to the port for that machine.  :)

They work great, they're just expensive; last time I looked at any on eBay they were still ~$200 a pop.

SavannahLion:


--- Quote from: saint on June 19, 2007, 06:48:30 pm ---Swap file. Don't know if you can make a non-modifiable Windows system. Anyone done that?


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--- Quote from: Kaytrim on June 19, 2007, 04:09:45 pm ---The only issue with cutting power to a windows computer is that damage can be done to the hard drive. 
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Two words: read only.

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Yeah, it's called BartPE. Runs off of a CD (DVD?). Using your windows XP disc and a current installation, it creates, what is essentially, a self contained bootable copy of XP on disc. Generally it's used to recover from severe problems such as a corrupted HDD or used to recover data from same. I've heard of people using it to create non-alterable environments such as in a classroom.

Some noted caveats is it runs bog slow on some systems and can take a while to boot due to the hardware probes. You can tweak the boot time by running a helper application to remove unnecessary drivers before making the disc, probes, process and the like. This has a side effect of specializing the boot disc to specific hardware, but for an arcade machine, exactly what you want. The system speed, I'm not sure how to fix, I've thrown more RAM on some test systems and sometimes it speeds up and other times it doesn't do anything. Oh well, I just use it for system recovery, so speed isn't high on my priority list.

AFAIK, BartPE creates a swap file in RAM and uses that instead of the HDD.

SavannahLion:

If you feel you must, then take a que from the old Win98 days and that silly disk check utility thingie.  A lot of people wrote scripts to automatically delete the files.

With XP, I've never had the need for a script so I don't know what files one should look for.

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