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    Bradml
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    An application that let me move my cursor from PC to PC regardless of operating system. I have 3 PCs on one of my desks right now trying to fix them all and i keep grabbing the wrong mouse or thinking that i have 3 monitors on the same machine. It would be awesome to be able to give focus to a particular desktop just by moving my cursor in its direction.


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      An application that let me move my cursor from PC to PC regardless of operating system. I have 3 PCs on one of my desks right now trying to fix them all and i keep grabbing the wrong mouse or thinking that i have 3 monitors on the same machine. It would be awesome to be able to give focus to a particular desktop just by moving my cursor in its direction.


      Brad Australian - Captain See Sharp on "Religion" any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.

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      ne0h
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      Using a 3 way USB connector add one mouse to 3 PC.... is it possible?:omg::omg:

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        An application that let me move my cursor from PC to PC regardless of operating system. I have 3 PCs on one of my desks right now trying to fix them all and i keep grabbing the wrong mouse or thinking that i have 3 monitors on the same machine. It would be awesome to be able to give focus to a particular desktop just by moving my cursor in its direction.


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        Rajesh R Subramanian
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        You need a GPS enabled mouse to do this. ;P


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          Using a 3 way USB connector add one mouse to 3 PC.... is it possible?:omg::omg:

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          Bradml
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          Yes, but that is not quite my idea now is it?


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            You need a GPS enabled mouse to do this. ;P


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            Bradml
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            All i need is a mouse that is better at my job then i am.


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              You need a GPS enabled mouse to do this. ;P


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              :-D:-D:-D


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                An application that let me move my cursor from PC to PC regardless of operating system. I have 3 PCs on one of my desks right now trying to fix them all and i keep grabbing the wrong mouse or thinking that i have 3 monitors on the same machine. It would be awesome to be able to give focus to a particular desktop just by moving my cursor in its direction.


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                Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                Maxivista[^] :cool:

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                  Maxivista[^] :cool:

                  Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"

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                  Bradml
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                  That is cool, but i was thinking allowing the different boxes to all be running completely seperately except for the shared cursor (and keyboard)


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                    Using a 3 way USB connector add one mouse to 3 PC.... is it possible?:omg::omg:

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                    Lost User
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                    That would probably give similar input to all 3 computers at once.

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                      That is cool, but i was thinking allowing the different boxes to all be running completely seperately except for the shared cursor (and keyboard)


                      Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

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                      Lost User
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                      That would be impossible to achieve in software without some kind of (network) connection between the computers.

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                        An application that let me move my cursor from PC to PC regardless of operating system. I have 3 PCs on one of my desks right now trying to fix them all and i keep grabbing the wrong mouse or thinking that i have 3 monitors on the same machine. It would be awesome to be able to give focus to a particular desktop just by moving my cursor in its direction.


                        Brad Australian - Captain See Sharp on "Religion" any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.

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                        Sebastian Schneider
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                        That software exists. You have three completely independant PCs and move the cursor over the edge of the screen in order to switch to the next one. Once set up correctly, it is completely awesome. It is called Synergy[^]

                        Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

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                          That software exists. You have three completely independant PCs and move the cursor over the edge of the screen in order to switch to the next one. Once set up correctly, it is completely awesome. It is called Synergy[^]

                          Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

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                          Steve Hansen
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                          Yup, I'm using it to use my same mouse and keyboard from my vista pc to also control my solaris server screen.

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                            That software exists. You have three completely independant PCs and move the cursor over the edge of the screen in order to switch to the next one. Once set up correctly, it is completely awesome. It is called Synergy[^]

                            Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

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                            normanS
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                            Wow. Thanks for the link. I didn't know I needed it, but I do! At work, I have a network with two WinXP PCs, a Solaris PC, a RedHat PC, and a Knoppix PC. I don't need to tell you how often I type on the wrong keyboard or move the wrong mouse!

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                              An application that let me move my cursor from PC to PC regardless of operating system. I have 3 PCs on one of my desks right now trying to fix them all and i keep grabbing the wrong mouse or thinking that i have 3 monitors on the same machine. It would be awesome to be able to give focus to a particular desktop just by moving my cursor in its direction.


                              Brad Australian - Captain See Sharp on "Religion" any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.

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                              Bert Otherside82 Derijckere
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                              I think this is what you're looking for: Synergy[^] It runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It allows you to use 1 keyboard and mouse for all connected computers and it also allows copy/paste of text between the machines.

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                                Wow. Thanks for the link. I didn't know I needed it, but I do! At work, I have a network with two WinXP PCs, a Solaris PC, a RedHat PC, and a Knoppix PC. I don't need to tell you how often I type on the wrong keyboard or move the wrong mouse!

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                                Sebastian Schneider
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                                Actually, I tried to use it at work (because buying a KVM-Switch is deemed "too expensive", but putting a monitor on every server is standard procedure). I just cannot get it to compile/run on either of the three VAXen. (I love those, btw. Nothing beats versioning built into the file system!), so I have to live with three "holes" in the monitor park ;) Synergy is a brilliant solution for Windows and Linux systems, and hopefully, will be for MacOS as well. I just love it :)

                                Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

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                                  That software exists. You have three completely independant PCs and move the cursor over the edge of the screen in order to switch to the next one. Once set up correctly, it is completely awesome. It is called Synergy[^]

                                  Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

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                                  Bernhard
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                                  ++ Great software. Used it some time ago.


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                                    Maxivista[^] :cool:

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                                    Paul Watson
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                                    Such a pity that doesn't work on Mac OS X. I love the idea, more useful to me than Synergy below.

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                                      Maxivista[^] :cool:

                                      Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"

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                                      Dan Neely
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                                      Another commercial option would be multiplicity[^] I'm planning to buy a home laptop Real-Soon-Now and will probably end up trying all this and the other two apps mentioned here (assuming demos/trial ware are available for the commercial ones)

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                                        Actually, I tried to use it at work (because buying a KVM-Switch is deemed "too expensive", but putting a monitor on every server is standard procedure). I just cannot get it to compile/run on either of the three VAXen. (I love those, btw. Nothing beats versioning built into the file system!), so I have to live with three "holes" in the monitor park ;) Synergy is a brilliant solution for Windows and Linux systems, and hopefully, will be for MacOS as well. I just love it :)

                                        Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

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                                        Chris Losinger
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                                        Sebastian Schneider wrote:

                                        Nothing beats versioning built into the file system!

                                        oh yeah. i've always wanted someone to come up with something like that for PCs.

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                                          Sebastian Schneider wrote:

                                          Nothing beats versioning built into the file system!

                                          oh yeah. i've always wanted someone to come up with something like that for PCs.

                                          image processing toolkits | batch image processing | blogging

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                                          Sebastian Schneider
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                                          You got me wondering if there is a FS kernel module like this for Linux. Im gonna start googling tonight... If you ever find anything, post it here on CP. I'll do the same :)

                                          Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

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