after a short bit of google digging in the hunt for something cool than buying any additional hardware (aka a multi-platform dual-dvi usb KVMP). Ideally I’d still like to utilize 3 monitors total without the need to lose screen real estate of my 3rd monitor, currently devoted only to the pc so that it doesn’t ever take away from stuff i have up on my powermac – the long story short is this: 

if you want to control multiple machines in one room, mac os_x/xp or vista/nerdy linux flavors/ubuntu – here’s the rig to use.

Synergy2 (an open-source KM controller server/client) and/or SynergyKM (an os x GUI wrapper (cocoa) for Synergy2 to avoid compiling, tidied nicely into a pretty system preference pane)

i also tested QuickSynergy, but i like the pref-pane handiness and configuration options of SynergyKM a bit better.

Results, it worked – tested running the SynergyKM server on my macbook pro and Synergy2 1.3.1 client running on a dell pc with vista. whooohooo! i, yet again, have managed to make some internet stuff work that most web dorks moved on 6 months to a year ago. i’ll take it, i’m drinking beer! 

Here’s a link to a jing swf of the active log, and how the only funk really was that the mac cursor didn’t disappear when i switched to the pc, but working nonetheless. -> 2008-07-29-synergykm

good shit for the um, design-script-oh-pseudo-grammer-ish-d00d? yis.

screen cap below, too. mobile friendly, that’s cool too i hear.. ok, enough is enough. i heart the intertubes.