[Sussex] Network problem

[Steve Dobson]

Mornin'

On 25 February 2003 at 18:18 John Crowhurst wrote:
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> > What is wrong with KVM switch?  Rather useful if need to save some space
> > and play about with software.
> 
> KVM switches are useful, but are prone to interference which may cause
> ghosting of the image on the monitor. This problem is especially common
> with Belkin, perhaps because of their poor build quality.

Years (several years ago) I got a cheap monitor/keyboard/mouse switch [to
show
how old it is the keyboard plug is DIN style and the mouse plug is a serial
D-type].  It suffered badly from ghosting when using [then] hi-res display
modes [1024x768].  Work find for ASCII output [which is the one true user
interface :-)], so now I use it to switch displays between my two servers
when I need direct access to the box - which with SSH is not all that often.
 
> If you can get away with using VNC, use that instead:
http://www.realvnc.com/

I'm using it nicely at work.  The SunBlade on my desk uses x2vnc to drive
the
[work] Win2K laptop.  Freaks some people out here when I show them the
pointer
floating off my X desktop onto the Windows desktop.  Keyboard works fine
except
for the arrow keys when I open a PuTTY session.  Why open a Putty session
when
you have a Unix box on your desk? I hear you ask. Cut and Paste - That
doesn't
work between the two systems.

Steve