Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>  wrote:
 > Me too! It's a sloppy network we have, alright. We have 1800 cobalt 
 > servers, which means each rack has to have 2 switches, and each row of 
 > racks have a router at the end for all the switches, just for the 
 > network cabling. To do all of those to have serial as well would have a 
 > cost associated with it I don't think management wants to spring for. Oh 
 > well :)

That's just stupid management then.  So uptime isn't important? When
a machine dies every couple of days, what do you do? Replace it probably.
So the cost associated with that is higher than the cost of cabling up
the consoles.

 > I do feel a bit for the original patcher of this thread, who thought it 
 > be nice to offer his diffs, told to do something more "proper" then shot 
 > down because it's bloat. Not complaining or putting blame on anyone, it 
 > just puts people off contributing, I know it did for me.

So you would rather that every patch that was submitted get committed so
we don't discourage anyone from contributing?