From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44277.192.11.226.116.1089426189.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> In-Reply-To: <200407092103.i69L3kq21993@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> References: <004301c465f5$6fa2ce30$e6fb7d50@SOMA><6e35c0620407091351b4d5ac2@mail.gmail.com> <200407092103.i69L3kq21993@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:23:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [9fans] TODO lists for Plan 9 From: vdharani@infernopark.com To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: bbfa8ff2-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> > > yes, USB is a train wreck and an unnecessary one at that. All they >> had to >> > > do was add power wires to enet and all would have been well. >> > >> > yup. aren't there two spare on an RJ-45 or am i thinking ISDN S/T >> bus? >> >> Two spare pair, actually. And there's an official standard for power >> over Ethernet: IEEE802.3af > > For what it's worth: the wireless access points on our campus > somehow get power over the ethernet cable. ---^----- basically, still the access point will have some kind of power adapter except that the DC wires are connected to the unused wires in ethernet cable. the advantages are the access point need not have, say, AC outlet closer to its location and there is only one wire going to the box. thanks dharani