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Emulate a KVM switch using software
by Jason Clarke Apr 7th 2006
Avi Dardik has a quick guide on how to set up a
secondary PC using VNC (for multi-platform support) to act like a KVM switch and allow you to switch between active
full-screen sessions on your host machine and a client machine at the tap of a hot-key.
Although many may argue that using VNC software for this purpose is a pretty ugly hack, the reality is that this
scenario is extremely common, and very fast on a local network.
The only thing I would add is that if I was going to set this up with strictly Windows PCs, I'd substitute Remote Desktop for VNC. Remote Desktop is simply so much faster and more efficient between Windows PCs that there's no reason not to. That is, of course, if you have XP Pro or a flavor of Windows Server for your "client" machine. XP Home won't allow you to make a Remote Desktop connection to it unprompted.
[image courtesy of Wikipedia]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
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