Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

[Craig White]

I do it all the time, I have a 4 port KVM and have my Linux desktop, my
Windows desktop, my Macintosh desktop and my Linux server all using the
same keyboard/monitor/mouse

Craig

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 19:59 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Thanks for the thoughts. Remote access to the Windows machine works well
> with rdesktop - I use it every day. It does not play games well,
> however.
> 
> Any thoughts on the sharing keyboard/mouse/monitor between the two
> machines?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:31 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> > After a long battle with technology, gm5729 wrote:
> > > Honestly the best choice is to get a gaming platform/console and use
> > > it.... cheaper and designed for games
> > 
> > I see you missed the OP's saying "one of my daughters likes to play WoW".  You 
> > can't play WoW on a WiiXboxPS2 according to Blizzard, so that won't work for 
> > the OP's needs.
> > 
> > Higher-end gaming was never my thing.  xmame, snes9x, epsxe, sdl-gnuboy, and 
> > fceu = plenty to keep me amused.  If the games that everybody likes will run 
> > OK on an older box with 2200MHz/512M/40G/reasonable graphics card (like the 
> > OP said), then it's reasonable to spend $350 on that.  The graphics card spec 
> > really depends on the exact games the users want.  To avoid hassles later, it 
> > might be worth getting a card that's a little more powerful than you need 
> > right now, since game updates may mean the GPU has to work harder.
> > 
> > Remotely managing a 'Doze machine from a Linux machine can be done reasonably 
> > easily.  Turn on whatever 'Doze uses for desktop sharing, then use rdesktop 
> > from the Linux side.  Or install TightVNC Server on the 'Doze machine and use 
> > any VNC client from the Linux machine.  Remotely managing a Linux box from 
> > a 'Doze box is easy; just use PuTTY or a VNC client.  HTH,
> > 
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