You know you've lost it when...

At work, I normally set up my Powerbook next to my workstation: I keep all my mail and stuff on the Powerbook, and use my Linux workstation for coding. Given that I've got a dual-monitor setup at home, I suppose it's quite natural that occasionally I will try to move the mouse pointer from one monitor to the other.

You know you've completely lost it, though, when after failing to get the pointer to cross between computers the first time, you slam the pointer harder against the side of the screen, with the unconscious belief that if you just push hard enough, it'll make it across the gap.

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By Stewart Johnson on March 22, 2004 4:29 PM

During our final year thesis period-of-interminable-hell, one of my friends was reading a textbook which was propped up against the corner of his monitor. He'd been working for many hours and was tired, so to turn the page he grabbed the mouse and tried to move down to the book to turn the page with the mouse. He jumped up in astonishment when the mouse pointer disappeared behind the book! :)

By Max on March 22, 2004 5:01 PM

Is there full VNC support for OSX? Then maybe x2vnc is your answer. :)

By JM Ibanez on March 22, 2004 9:55 PM

Max, yes there is an OS X VNC server and viewer available. (GIYF).

That happened to me once. I had a laptop next to my desktop's monitor, and was unconciously using the desktop mouse to move the laptop mouse cursor. I kept wondering why the mouse cursor wouldn't move.

By Gabriel Radic on March 22, 2004 11:01 PM

You may want to try osx2x, you'll love it.
http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/osx2x/

By Jun de Winter on March 23, 2004 12:39 AM

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own display.

I think you will like it (I do).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergy2/

By Renee on March 24, 2004 3:11 AM

I just wonder how you would react if it DID work.

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