software

Got a Soekris 4801

Posted Thu, 11/29/2007 - 08:05 by Tom Friedhof

I've been keeping my eye on embedded computers lately, particularly the Soekris 4801.  Well, I finally bought one.  These little computers are really cool.  You can install Linux or BSD on these little devices and pretty much have them do whatever you want.  I didn't get a hard drive with mine, I'm going to use an old 512 MB Compact Flash card to hold the OS, which will be more than enough room for what I'll be using it for.

You can use these embedded systems for a variety of things, but I am going to install m0n0wall on this device. As it says on the m0n0wall web site:

Share your keyboard and mouse with other computers

Posted Fri, 10/12/2007 - 18:43 by Tom Friedhof

I recently heard about a really cool open source software program on Leo Laporte's radio show "The Tech Guy". It's called Synergy. The software allows you to share the keyboard and mouse of one computer with other computers, and it does this all through software, no hardware needed. The typical way of doing this in the past was by installing a hardware KVM switch that you physically hooked your keyboard and mouse up to (and video, if you want), and then had to either physically press a button on the switch, or press a hot-key on the keyboard to have your keyboard and mouse switch to the other computer.