Serial over LAN Serial over LAN Serial Over LAN (SOL) is a mechanism that enables the input and output of the serial port of a managed system to be redirected over IP. On some managed systems, notably blade server systems, the serial ports on the managed computers are not normally connected to a traditional serial port socket. To allow users to access applications on these computers via the serial port, the input/output of the serial port is redirected to the network. For example, a user wishing to access a blade server via the serial port can telnet to a network address and log
Parallel universes in fiction or unintentionally – as in "Angel Heart". Less often, the alternative narratives are given equal weight in the story, making them truly alternative universes, such as in the German film "Run Lola Run", the short-lived British West End musical "Our House" and the British film "Sliding Doors". More recent films that have explicitly explored parallel universes are: the 2000 film "The Family Man", the 2001 cult movie "Donnie Darko", which deals with what it terms a "tangent universe" that erupts from our own universe; "Super Mario Bros." (1993) has the eponymous heroes cross over into a parallel universe ruled by