Synergy is Awesome!

locallyunscene

<div class="IPBDescription">Seriously</div>Old news for some I'm sure, but I just set up <a href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">synergy</a> and I'm blown away by how <i>good</i> it is. It's a program that lets you use one mouse and keyboard with two completely different computers. In other words, two computers, two monitors, one mouse and keyboard. It's open source, available for windows, linux, and mac, and I got it working in under 5 minutes on my fedora and xp boxes.

That is all.

remi

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It also hasn't had any development on it since like... 2007

Svenpa

Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

lolfighter

That depends on whether it needs any further development. If it's buggy or incompatible with a lot of hard/software, it's a bad thing. If there's nothing really wrong with it, it's a good thing.

remi

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I feel it is a bad thing because it has been unreliable for me at times, and because there is like.. no security to it.

I am afraid to use it on my laptop because when I'm on the school's wireless it still is trying to find a computer to connect to to control it. The connection protocol I just don't like.

The rest of the program seems to work well, it's just that stuff that irritates me.


It's also a bad thing because if you find a bug in it, there is no chance anyone will be fixing it because it is not being actively developed. There are lots of good things about something being actively developed, wether or not it works right now is not the point. The point is can it be better, is there support for it, and if security holes are found will anyone fix it?

Svenpa

Wait, this just allows me to control another computer, not actually SEE in another window what I'm doing to it? So it's useless less I can see the other screen(s)?

Wonder if you can run this together with something that just observes another screen..

remi

<!--quoteo(post=1691854:date=Oct 30 2008, 06:09 PM:name=Svenpa)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Svenpa @ Oct 30 2008, 06:09 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1691854"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Wait, this just allows me to control another computer, not actually SEE in another window what I'm doing to it? So it's useless less I can see the other screen(s)?

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Except it provides a link into another computer, and maybe they could use a buffer overflow style attack or something. Dunno, never did much security... but yeah, for general security it's fine. It just opens your computer to a potential attack from crafty kids.

Scythe

I use it at work between my laptop and desktop. It's pretty handy but it does crash occasionally.

My main security beef would be something that could sniff keypresses out of the network traffic.

--Scythe--

spellman23

lol, thought you were talking about the game.

Anyways, maybe I'll look into it sometime. I usually am using ssh on Cygwin to do stuff on other computers.

remi

One feature I would really like is a way to choose what network to try to find the other computer on... so I could set it up so that there is a wired network between my computers and then specify to use that one even though one would have a wireless connection to the internetss.

This would also make it more secure for the situation where you are using a computer that frequently visits a different network.