[SGVLUG] SCALE5x Booth - Volunteers and Ideas: LinuxDoc and DumbTerminals

[Swantje]

On 1/5/07, juanslayton at dslextreme.com <juanslayton at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>

> At first I was amazed at this but then on further consideration didn't
> really believe it.  Then I searched the Internet and found that my doubts
> were partly correct.  The problem is that by design, the USB and monitor
> cables are for short distances only, like a few feet.  So that rules out
> connecting a lot of monitors and keyboards to one PC.  But what is "a
> lot"?

We've our printer connected to our server by a 25 foot extension USB
cable and it works just fine. Not sure about monitor cables.

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