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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]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
