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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] upgrade of abonded Devuan Jessie
Antony Stone said on Fri, 5 May 2023 14:57:35 +0100

>On Friday 05 May 2023 at 14:52:06, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> Bruce Perens via Dng said on Thu, 4 May 2023 10:48:46 -0700
>>
>> >I won't ask how you got into this situation :-)
>> >
>> >I have a remote site 5 hours drive from my home with no remote
>> >hands. I use PiKVM. See https://pikvm.org/
>>
>> I don't understand what I'm seeing on https://pikvm.org/ . What's it
>> supposed to do? Is it supposed to work in tandem with a more powerful
>> computer, or is it standalone?
>
>It is a network-connected Keyboard-Video-Mouse device, made with a
>Raspberry Pi.
>
>In other words, no matter what state some other computer is in (turned
>off, running fine, stuck at a Grub prompt, stuck in the Bios with
>"Keyboard error, press F1 to continue", or whatever), then if you have
>one of these connected to it, this thing has power and an Internet
>connection, you can then work on the other machine as though you were
>sitting in front of it with a keyboard and a screen.


Can it power off and power on the machine?

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt
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