[wplug] dumb terminal question

[John Harrold]

I'm not sure if this is possible, but this is what I want to do. I have a
couple servers running Debian, and I've replaced my home computer with a
powerbook. As a result, I no longer have a monitor. Is it possible to
either: 

   o configure the laptop to act as a dumb terminal through a terminal
     application to access the servers directly --- as opposed to over the
     net.

   o take the video output and keyboard inputs of a server and plug that
     into some special device that I could plug into either the firewire or
     usb ports of my  laptop and access a server in a more straightforward
     way through some terminal application.

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