I really *love* http://synergy2.sf.net/ - so much that I'll rave about it
here :-)
I've come across this cool piece of software a couple of weeks ago that lets
you share the mouse pointer, keyboard and clipboard between two and more
machines, no matter what OS they run.
To clarify that a bit: I have a Linux and a Windows PC under my desk, each
with its own monitor - Windows left, Linux right. When the mouse leaves the
windows machine's screen towards the right, it enters the Linux screen from
the left, and vice versa - it's like dual monitors, but with a different
machine on each. And the keyboard follows the mouse to the other machine, so
no more second keyboard&mouse on my desk, more space for paper. And when I
plug in the notebook, it appears as a screen to the left of the windows box :-)
In addition, the clipboard can be shared. I can grab a URL from Internet
Explorer, and paste it into my Linux shell to do a wget, grab some code from
a mail in Mozilla and paste it into an editor window on the other machine.
Very, very nifty.
Enno.
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