Here's a cool gadget: The

Here's a cool gadget: The Extendit Cat5-1000 is a pair of boxes. One plugs into the monitor and USB port of your computer, the other plugs into a monitor and whatever USB devices you want to use, and between them you can string up to 250 feet of Cat-5 Ethernet cable. It's been a couple years since I was last a sysadmin, but boy, it sure woulda made my life easier if I could have remotely connected monitors and keyboards to machines using the networking wire built into the walls.LinkDiscuss (via MacNN)