
This is my workspace as of September 2010, notice anything different? Especially compare to the
workspace photo from February. No, not the mess. look again.
There's only one set of keyboard and mouse.
I'm one of those people who have multiple computers next to each other. It's a sad fact that I just can't make it on mac alone. I'm addicted to MMO and most MMO games I played don't support mac, hence my predicament. I always hate having two keyboards on my desk, it seems such a waste of space. I have used KVM before, one which I called my pet tentacles, with so many wires going in and out, and obvious lag in switching, it just wasn't worth the hassle.
So entered
Synergy, a software that let you share keyboard and mouse through LAN connection. No extra hardware needed, all you have to do is installing software (free, opensource) on each computer, set one as a server and the rest as clients, and you're done, in theory.
In practice, it's a bit harder than that, just a bit, since the software is still under development. It's stable enough, but not without problems.