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RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

  • From: Vivien M.
  • Date: Sun Mar 14 22:37:58 2004 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: March 14, 2004 10:16 PM
> To: Andrew Dorsett
> Cc: Vivien M.; 'North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes'
> Subject: Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
> 
> And what is wrong with setting up a hub or something in a 
> dormroom?  I 
> find it quite convenient to leave both my PC and a laptop 
> running on my 
> desk, for various reasons (too many open terminals and 
> windows is one of 
> them ...)

Nothing wrong with it as far as I'm concerned, but IT departments in
post-secondary institutions seem/seemed to have a problem with it, for some
reason. Perhaps they just figure that two machines means increased potential
for abuse (since presumably two people could use the port simultaneously)?

Vivien

P.S. I do the same thing you do...
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Vivien M.
[email protected]
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
http://www.dyndns.org/