Doing More With…

Ok, I will start with this, Synergy was (and is) one of my favourite pieces of software.  Unfortunately the code has fallen by the wayside for whatever reason.  To the developer I have to say Thanks for the increased productivity and the ability to unhook the occasional physical KVM.

Now onto the fork in the code?   But seriously…

Synergy+ is a fork of the original open source code that stopped being maintained.  The new version is being kept up with its new home on the Google Code (http://bit.ly/3R1ced).

For those of you that have never heard of Synergy or Synergy+ it is a piece of software that allows you to share your keyboard and mouse over an IP network.  You can configure a machine (the server) to share it’s keyboard and mouse with any number of additional machines saving you from having to have them (or easy access) everywhere.

Around my office I run a Ubuntu server, a MacBook Pro, a Windows 7 laptop and a Windows 7 desktop system.  All of these share a single keyboard and mouse and have their own displays.

If you are ever in need of a KVM and are either unable to get one, give this software a shot.  In an upcoming blog I will detail how I have my systems configured complete with screenshots.

A special thanks goes out to Sorin and Nick, the new maintainers of the code.

Again, until next time…

Cheers

While in the process of performing some data transfer/recovery using my Jaunty Live-CD I decided that I didn’t really want to sit right beside the server while doing this work to save my sanity and hearing.

My attempts to enable remote desktop (using the Preferences > Remote Desktop applet) using Vino were hit and miss as I could only connect to the server 1 out of every 20 attempts.

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