Peppercorn

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From: Abigail
Subject: Peppercorn
Date: 22:14 on 26 May 2005
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I do a lot of development for a small box, which doesn't have
its own keyboard or monitor.=20

So I use a "management card" (whose vendor I shall not mention, because I
already did so in the Subject line) - which allows you to control the box
remotely. Using a web based interface, you can turn the box on and off,
reset it, and, using a Java applet, it gives you a remote console as well.
It gives you what's on the console, and allows you to use the keyboard
(and in theory the mouse as well).

Nice principle. But, it being software, there's hate.

I hated the old card because the applet allowed you to type all
characters, except the '-' and the '_'. To type a dash or an underscore,
you had to pull down a menu and select a "soft keyboard" in some
submenu. This popped up a small window consisting of a keyboard with
tiny keys. In this window, you could select the dash. Hate.

But now a days, I use a newer card. It doesn't have the problem I
mentioned above. It has its own hate. The box I work on, I reboot
a lot. And the bloody applet thinks "Hey, the box is booting, let's
grab the focus".  But don't think that grabbing the focus back is the
end of it, oh no.  Three seconds in the boot process, it grabs the
focus again. And a few seconds later, it grabs it a third time. Three
times. For each reboot.  Which I can easily do 30 times a day.

Hate. Hate. Hate.



Abigail

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