>From today's always worthwhile weekly sarcastic 'zine NTK. Check out this story
and links:
Things Apple People Insist On Doing To Piss Other Platforms
Off, #343: that thing where they stick two of their swanky
LCDs into one Mac, and then move the mouse seamlessly
between them while laughing, laughing, laughing. Now fair
enough, given the right tech and six hours of wasted setup
time, both Windows and Linux can do multi-homing. But it is
a curious fact of life that geeks are more likely to have
n+1 computers under our desk than we have multihoming
machines with two or more monitors stuck into them. Which is
where Chris Schoeneman's SYNERGY steps in. SYNERGY lets you
move your mouse between Windows and Linux boxes sharing a
network (and presumably your desk). When you move the mouse
off the left of one screen, it will move to the next PC -
and keyboard focus and the clipboard contents will move with
it. So you can cut and paste between Windows and Linux, or
replace a hardware keyboard/mouse switchbox with software.
Currently, you can't drag windows across machines, but, hey,
with X remote servers, VNC, and some hackery, anything's
possible, right? Best of all, it's not yet ported to MacOS
X. So you can show those switching iPod-people what for. Ha!
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
- it'll get ported one day, but live for now
http://netclipboard.sf.net/
- and if you just want the Net-wide clipboard
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/rcm/WWW/RemoteClip/
- that works on Palms...
NEED TO KNOW
THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION. NOW WE'RE STEALING IT BACK.
Archive - http://www.ntk.net/
have a nice weekend y'all
./Jason
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