For PC's.
http://www.kavoom.biz/
For Mac OSX Leopard users.
http://www.wonderhowto.com/creator/www. ... _macmad13/
Another idea also for Mac + M$.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/r ... fault.mspx
Software KVM's
Software KVM's
Last edited by dawman on Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:14 am, edited 2 times in total.
Re: Software KVM's
you linked to the EXE with no info 
you trying to own our machines ?
you trying to own our machines ?
Re: Software KVM's
Not sure what the first link is, but I use synergy & VNC here (VNC is a bit cpu heavy for single cpu machines). Synergy for when doing actual work, VNC for quick stuff.
I dislike remote desktop for non-admin work as it will log off non-server OS's, and on a server OS it's a separate user logon instance so trying to use it to manage Scope will not access the login Scope is running under unless you logoff first! Besides using a server OS is a bit costly just for a scope box...
I dislike remote desktop for non-admin work as it will log off non-server OS's, and on a server OS it's a separate user logon instance so trying to use it to manage Scope will not access the login Scope is running under unless you logoff first! Besides using a server OS is a bit costly just for a scope box...
Re: Software KVM's
Sorry 'Bout That Cheif.......... 
I am taking classes though for O.S.'s and Film and Production, so maybe they can save me from my embarraing posts here. I corrected the Kavoom link, thanks.
Last night I fell asleep in class.
Tonight I promise to pay attention and stay awake.
Besides, first class was the basic posturing and introduction.
Brotha' Man Valis,
I always prefer hardware over software when it comes to peripherrals like USB I try to avoid them, or keep their numbers to a minimum, as I had troubles w/ bandwidth on the all USB approach of the DP35DP mobo. That's why my next board is a more stable approach as I will be going back to Supermicro since they seem to be aware of the faults of the all USB mobo's. Plus I still have a great DAW that uses Gigastudio 160 w/ 3 x Scope cards and a P4SCT+II for years. Only being updated to a Northwood CPU from a Prescott !!
I was combining the 2 DAW's w/ Kavoom as a fast workaround for a temporary quick fix since I forgot to have the second monitor shipped to LV...duh. It worked really well.
The others were parts of a link I thought someone might be interested in.
Luckily your experience pointed out the downsides of the other options.
Many OSX/Mac guys w/ PC Slaves are using the other choices, that don't seem as a wise choice for Scopers. But I suppose in the future if I keep the old Supermicro as a PC Rompler/Scope slave they would be more feasible.
I am taking classes though for O.S.'s and Film and Production, so maybe they can save me from my embarraing posts here. I corrected the Kavoom link, thanks.
Last night I fell asleep in class.
Tonight I promise to pay attention and stay awake.
Besides, first class was the basic posturing and introduction.
Brotha' Man Valis,
I always prefer hardware over software when it comes to peripherrals like USB I try to avoid them, or keep their numbers to a minimum, as I had troubles w/ bandwidth on the all USB approach of the DP35DP mobo. That's why my next board is a more stable approach as I will be going back to Supermicro since they seem to be aware of the faults of the all USB mobo's. Plus I still have a great DAW that uses Gigastudio 160 w/ 3 x Scope cards and a P4SCT+II for years. Only being updated to a Northwood CPU from a Prescott !!
I was combining the 2 DAW's w/ Kavoom as a fast workaround for a temporary quick fix since I forgot to have the second monitor shipped to LV...duh. It worked really well.
The others were parts of a link I thought someone might be interested in.
Luckily your experience pointed out the downsides of the other options.
Many OSX/Mac guys w/ PC Slaves are using the other choices, that don't seem as a wise choice for Scopers. But I suppose in the future if I keep the old Supermicro as a PC Rompler/Scope slave they would be more feasible.
Re: Software KVM's
I'm unfamiliar with KaVoom, but now that it's more than an exe link I'll give it a read (could have grabbed the relevent portion of the url before too but hey...)
The 2 things I mentioned are software btw, and more useful to a studio user than in a Live context I would think (what software is truly trustworthy live?) Also fwiw Synergy doesn't seem terribly happy with a Mac laptop as host (I have used it from my 8 core Xeon fine though, acting as server both under Windows & OSX).
I agree with you on the USB tip btw, USB was never intended to do more than connect quickcams & cheap inkjet printers. It's a PIO mode device that has benefitted from cpu's having more cores & cycles than the average consumer can use, but I personally still cringe at not being able to buy a serial/parallel capable MIDI device. Also half the USB hubs I've owned seem to have grounding issues (a belkin I own actually causes my AVR's to 'whine' due to it's crappy rectifier/step-down transformer and has the grounding problems to boot).
The 2 things I mentioned are software btw, and more useful to a studio user than in a Live context I would think (what software is truly trustworthy live?) Also fwiw Synergy doesn't seem terribly happy with a Mac laptop as host (I have used it from my 8 core Xeon fine though, acting as server both under Windows & OSX).
I agree with you on the USB tip btw, USB was never intended to do more than connect quickcams & cheap inkjet printers. It's a PIO mode device that has benefitted from cpu's having more cores & cycles than the average consumer can use, but I personally still cringe at not being able to buy a serial/parallel capable MIDI device. Also half the USB hubs I've owned seem to have grounding issues (a belkin I own actually causes my AVR's to 'whine' due to it's crappy rectifier/step-down transformer and has the grounding problems to boot).