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Synergy for multi-PC goodness

April 29th, 2007

I’ve been using a neat little utility for the past week called Synergy. It allows one keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers over the network, in an extremely intuitive way. You still need a monitor on the extra computers… Synergy kind of merges all your machines into one huge desktop. Check out this video and hopefully you’ll understand.

There are other programs like it, such as Multiplicity and MaxiVista, but the beauty of Synergy is 1. it’s free software (open-source) and 2. it runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. I run Windows 2003 on my main PC, and Gentoo Linux on the other. It also synchronizes your clipboard so you can copy and paste between your different machines as if they were all just one big family.

Now if anyone could be so kind as to donate a Mac Pro to my cause, I could run all three platforms on my desk :)

DVD ripping is legal ? not quite yet.

April 29th, 2007

Kaleidescape, makers of ultra-high-end media center equipment, have won a court ruling vs the DVD CCA (copy control association), which alleged that the defendant’s product was illegally circumventing DVD copy protection. For you lazy tards, the Kaleidescape system is like a video iPod on steroids… Read the rest of this entry »