[ale] [not OT] controlling 2 pc's from 1?

[James P. Kinney III]

Hmm. The question I must ask first is:

What level of control do you want? Is it a monitor situation? Or are you
looking at using remote process power to feed audio/visual candy to a
zaurus?

As to the former, monitor situation, how fast of an update do you
_really_ need? 

tightVNC, while much faster than the uncompressed in delivering data to
view, is a cpu hog. The gzip/gunzip can eat cpu time quickly. I'm
thinking running one client session on a Zaurus will bring it to its
knees pretty quickly. 2 sessions will certainly more than saturate an
802.11b link. 

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 21:57, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Albeit, this might be an off-the-wall question, but it's not necessarily
> irrelevant.  I'm looking for a way to control 2 PC's from 1 GUI
> interface on a third PC via WiFi.  All 3 boxes run linux (1 Zaurus, 2
> desktop equivalents).  They all run X.  The Zaurus is touchscreen.  I
> was thinking about using TightVNC but I'm not sure if I can do it that
> way.  I'm most concerned with XMMS and I know theres an xmms-ctrl
> module that will let you controll xmms from the console.  I could
> build a wrapper around that buuuuut.... I'm hoping there's a more
> elegant solution.
> 
> Can anyone think of a way I can do this?
> 
> Could I shotgun 2 [tight]VNC connections and accomplish this?  Or
> maybe serialize them (use one to control remotely view the other).
> But if I do this, it won't truly be simultaneous.
> 
> 
> As always, much respect in advance to the winner...!
> 
> :)
> -CB
> 
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