Goodbye Vista
I’d been liking much of what Vista has to offer as a home desktop system for a while now, but have run into enough little niggling driver/application issues — particularly since installing service pack 1 — that I’ve finally had it.
The old G5 iMac has been dragged upstairs. It is now my primary “work” computer, it’s got enough grunt to handle web browsing, terminal sessions, and iTunes to manage the AppleTV, even if it’s old enough that it can’t play H.264 content without stuttering. The PC has been nuked and had XP reinstalled, and it’ll have only games and maybe a few video tools installed.
Synergy is handling mouse+keyboard. The Mac synergys doesn’t seem to like running in the background, but I can live with having a terminal session open with it. I’d report it as a bug but there doesn’t appear to have been any activity in two years, so probably not much point. If there’s a better tool for this out there, I’m all ears.
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Mrr? I don’t recall having issues with synergy running in the background and quitting Terminal… If it’s genuinely an issue, run it in a screen?
Not what I mean, though yes, that would also be an issue.
I can’t get either of the synergy binaries to fork and run as a daemon on Leopard, if I try that they bomb. Might work better if I compile from source, but as I also discovered that it makes the mouse do crazy things in WoW — try adjusting the camera and your view spins around and around and eventually you’re looking up from your feet — I’ve dug out a KVM and will try that for a while.