Need Sun RJ-45 console cable

Wed Nov 27 19:39:25 PST 2002

> Replying off-list to avoid starting a religious war there...

*ahem*   :)  That's okay, it happens to everyone sometimes.
> . . . Were that 
> the case, then the makers of every switch in common use today are at 
> fault for bad design because I can plug an RJ11 phone cord into their 
> equipment's RJ45 switch ports.

I think the folks who wrote the standards for web browsers said it best;
things should accept stupid input in non-catastrophic ways.

I do not deny that plugging the wrong PC part into a correctly labelled
Mac... or Sun for that matter... port is stupid, but I don't think it 
*can* be denied that people do it.  Whether by chance or clutziness or
even malice (unlikely; physical access leads to much better options) 
doesn't matter.

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