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A Tale of Two LEDs
- mzs 7y agoanother similar post: http://dtrace.org/blogs/rm/2019/08/14/cpu-and-pch-temperature-sensors-in-illumos/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/rm/2019/08/14/cpu-and-pch-temperatur...
- salex89 7y agoI'm not sure how common it is, but I met a guy who uses a CD drive to identify the unit he is searching for. Pops them out remotely. Of course it is applicable only if your servers have CD drives, but it's hell of a lot easier than spotting LED patterns.
- quickthrower2 7y agohttps://thedailywtf.com/articles/ITAPPMONROBOT https://thedailywtf.com/articles/ITAPPMONROBOT
- klausjensen 7y agoWhat a great read, I enjoyed that.
- quickthrower2 7y agoThat's the 2007 internet :-). Mourning...
- nolok 7y agoAh, back in university early 2000s we used that to identify computers in the it rooms and their 50+ laptop next to each other’s.
- TrevorFSmith 7y agoI rarely comment about site design, but this is illegible on mobile screens and it's an interesting story so worth sharing. Just setting the width of the main content to ~65em would make it legible upon element zoom for a lot of devices.