| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| dougal |
Neat Hack!The Mac has supported a Desktop spanning multiple monitors since the introduction of the Mac 2 in 1986.So 21 years later, someone implements it using a monitor attached to a different computer... (and the second screen doesn't even have to be on a Mac). Whether or not its useful to anyone, it IS a very neat hack. http://www.screenrecycler.com/video.html for a Quicktime movie demo. Note that the (free, beta) download has some sort of expiry date, and there is a plan to sell it for some price, sometime. |
| Cathryn |
dougal - if you say it is then it is. I haven't a clue what you are talking about but as you are one of my gods I do not care 
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| jema |
I see it uses VNC which has been useful for many a year. |
| hardworkinghippy |
Ruby,
I thought it was just me who thought daft thoughts like that... 
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| dougal |
Ruby - repeat after me "...Just a VERY naughty boy!"
The link should make clear what the thing does. The 'neatness' is in the combination of the concepts that VNC doesn't *have* to display the remote machines main screen, and that one could fake the presence of a second screen to the operating system, and then transmit the fake screen image to a remote VNC display. The OS does all the hard work. All they have done is to guide/pervert the OS and the open source VNC stuff to do something unexpected and quite novel. |
| Simon |
I'm glad you cleared that up for us. Thanks
 
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| Cathryn |
ooh er
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