Post by thread:[OT]: Multimonitor/machine 'change focus' over net

I saw an interesting Windows 9x program many years ago, that let you run multiple machines AS IF you had a multiple monitor desktop. If you moved the mouse off your current screen it would take over control of a DIFFERENT machine, whose monitor was next to the primary one, as if you had an automatic switch box that connected your keyboard and mouse to that new machine when you moved off screen. Anyone know what the software was/is called? It used a network connection to pass the 'pointer and keyboard' info, but used the screen borders to change the focus to another machine. It certainly isn't PCanywhere (which STILL doesn't have multimonitor support) or VNC. I'd love to have this for my current cluster of one-headed machines. Any leads? TIA Robert -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

Ninja Switch, spam_OUTinfoTakeThisOuTfusionsys.com. Team Quickwave, http://www.alpha-net.ne.ip/users2/tetsuyat/teamquickwave/index.html Robert Rolf wrote: {Quote hidden}>I saw an interesting Windows 9x program many years ago, that let you run >multiple machines AS IF you had a multiple monitor desktop. >If you moved the mouse off your current screen it would take over >control of a DIFFERENT machine, whose monitor was next to the primary one, >as if you had an automatic switch box that connected your keyboard and >mouse to that new machine when you moved off screen. > >Anyone know what the software was/is called? It used a network connection >to pass the 'pointer and keyboard' info, but used the screen borders to >change the focus to another machine. It certainly isn't PCanywhere >(which STILL doesn't have multimonitor support) or VNC. > >I'd love to have this for my current cluster of one-headed machines. >Any leads? > >TIA > >Robert > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics >(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

Thanks for the pointer, but the URL returns 'host not found'. "Ninja Switch" returns about a dozen hits, none of which seem to be the program. fusionsys.com is in Japanese so I didn't have much luck there (and altvista didn't translate J2E at all). "quickwave" seems to be a wireless security card. Do you have any other 'keywords' that might be associated with this program? Robert Evan Scott wrote: {Quote hidden}> > Ninja Switch, .....infoKILLspam@spam@fusionsys.com. Team Quickwave, > http://www.alpha-net.ne.ip/users2/tetsuyat/teamquickwave/index.html > > Robert Rolf wrote: > > >I saw an interesting Windows 9x program many years ago, that let you run > >multiple machines AS IF you had a multiple monitor desktop. > >If you moved the mouse off your current screen it would take over > >control of a DIFFERENT machine, whose monitor was next to the primary one, > >as if you had an automatic switch box that connected your keyboard and > >mouse to that new machine when you moved off screen. > > > >Anyone know what the software was/is called? It used a network connection > >to pass the 'pointer and keyboard' info, but used the screen borders to > >change the focus to another machine. It certainly isn't PCanywhere > >(which STILL doesn't have multimonitor support) or VNC. > > > >I'd love to have this for my current cluster of one-headed machines. > >Any leads? > > > >TIA > > > >Robert -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

Let's move this out of the piclist. If you would like to discuss this further please advise via private e-mail to evalscKILLspampacbell.net re, eas Robert Rolf wrote: {Quote hidden}>Thanks for the pointer, but the URL returns 'host not found'. >"Ninja Switch" returns about a dozen hits, none of which seem to be >the program. fusionsys.com is in Japanese so I didn't have much luck there >(and altvista didn't translate J2E at all). >"quickwave" seems to be a wireless security card. > >Do you have any other 'keywords' that might be associated with this program? > >Robert > >Evan Scott wrote: > > >>Ninja Switch, .....infoKILLspam.....fusionsys.com. Team Quickwave, >>www.alpha-net.ne.ip/users2/tetsuyat/teamquickwave/index.html >> >>Robert Rolf wrote: >> >> >> >>>I saw an interesting Windows 9x program many years ago, that let you run >>>multiple machines AS IF you had a multiple monitor desktop. >>>If you moved the mouse off your current screen it would take over >>>control of a DIFFERENT machine, whose monitor was next to the primary one, >>>as if you had an automatic switch box that connected your keyboard and >>>mouse to that new machine when you moved off screen. >>> >>>Anyone know what the software was/is called? It used a network connection >>>to pass the 'pointer and keyboard' info, but used the screen borders to >>>change the focus to another machine. It certainly isn't PCanywhere >>>(which STILL doesn't have multimonitor support) or VNC. >>> >>>I'd love to have this for my current cluster of one-headed machines. >>>Any leads? >>> >>>TIA >>> >>>Robert >>> >>> > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics >(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

--Apple-Mail-8-1072361274 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Saturday, Jan 4, 2003, at 15:47 Australia/Sydney, Evan Scott wrote: > Let's move this out of the piclist. If you would like to discuss this > further please advise via private e-mail to EraseMEevalscspam_OUTTakeThisOuTpacbell.net Why? He had the correct [OT]: tag, and I am interested. Your link did not work, that's all. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. Sean --Apple-Mail-8-1072361274 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII On Saturday, Jan 4, 2003, at 15:47 Australia/Sydney, Evan Scott wrote: <excerpt><fixed>Let's move this out of the piclist. If you would like to discuss this further please advise via private e-mail to <underline><color><param>1999,1999,FFFF</param>evalscspam_OUTpacbell.net</color></underline> </fixed></excerpt> Why? He had the correct [OT]: tag, and I am interested. Your link did not work, that's all. Sean --Apple-Mail-8-1072361274--

Actually, after re-reading your m\initial query I realized Ninja Switch (which doesn't seem to have a source any longer anyway) is probably not the app you need... I suggest Remote Administrator instead... http://www.radmin.com (which is active). Robert Rolf wrote: {Quote hidden}>Thanks for the pointer, but the URL returns 'host not found'. >"Ninja Switch" returns about a dozen hits, none of which seem to be >the program. fusionsys.com is in Japanese so I didn't have much luck there >(and altvista didn't translate J2E at all). >"quickwave" seems to be a wireless security card. > >Do you have any other 'keywords' that might be associated with this program? > >Robert > >Evan Scott wrote: > > >>Ninja Switch, @spam@infoKILLspamfusionsys.com. Team Quickwave, >>www.alpha-net.ne.ip/users2/tetsuyat/teamquickwave/index.html >> >>Robert Rolf wrote: >> >> >> >>>I saw an interesting Windows 9x program many years ago, that let you run >>>multiple machines AS IF you had a multiple monitor desktop. >>>If you moved the mouse off your current screen it would take over >>>control of a DIFFERENT machine, whose monitor was next to the primary one, >>>as if you had an automatic switch box that connected your keyboard and >>>mouse to that new machine when you moved off screen. >>> >>>Anyone know what the software was/is called? It used a network connection >>>to pass the 'pointer and keyboard' info, but used the screen borders to >>>change the focus to another machine. It certainly isn't PCanywhere >>>(which STILL doesn't have multimonitor support) or VNC. >>> >>>I'd love to have this for my current cluster of one-headed machines. >>>Any leads? >>> >>>TIA >>> >>>Robert >>> >>> > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics >(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

Oh, all right, if you insist... the outfit that made Ninja Switch seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. This happened about the same time that they were advertising a version of the application that supported five machines (top, bottom, left, right and middle)... the one I use supports three machines... one on the right, one on the left and one in the middle. I sent off for the 5 cpu version and, lo-and-behold, no more contacts. A week of search experiments ended up with a few e-mails indicating, in very curt fashion, that "no one at this address knows anything about Ninja Switch so leave us the hell alone" so I gave up. I was going to suggest to Roger that I zip up my copy and let him see if it does the job and if he can somehow contact the outfit and get a "legal" copy far out... but I thought I would minimize the list's involvement. Some much for that idea. :-\ Anyway, Ninja Switch is a tiny footprint network-based KM (keyboard/mouse) switch as oppsed to a KVM switch (like the small footprint Remote Administrator or the large footprint PCAnywhere). To use Ninja Switch all the CPU's must have monitors and moving the mouse off the screen to the left causes the cursor to magically appear on the monitor of the left computer and ditto for the right computer. Sean Alcorn - PIC Stuff wrote: {Quote hidden}> > > On Saturday, Jan 4, 2003, at 15:47 Australia/Sydney, Evan Scott wrote: > > Let's move this out of the piclist. If you would like to discuss this > further please advise via private e-mail to KILLspamevalscKILLspampacbell.net > > > Why? He had the correct [OT]: tag, and I am interested. Your link did > not work, that's all. > > Sean -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

But ... Remote Administrator does not do the automatic switching between screens as originally request, right? We use RAdmin to manage about 12,000 PCs (my employer) and I don't recall ever having seen this feature! This would be very sweet, however, as I have three monitors at my own desk, and would like the mouse and keyboard to automatically switch as I move the mouse around. Actually, I'd like it to monitor my eyes and switch as I look from one monitor to the other, but I'd live with mouse movement if I have to <g>. -- Mitch On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Evan Scott wrote: {Quote hidden}> Actually, after re-reading your m\initial query I realized Ninja Switch > (which doesn't seem to have a source any longer anyway) is probably not > the app you need... I suggest Remote Administrator instead... > http://www.radmin.com (which is active). > > Robert Rolf wrote: > > >Thanks for the pointer, but the URL returns 'host not found'. > >"Ninja Switch" returns about a dozen hits, none of which seem to be > >the program. fusionsys.com is in Japanese so I didn't have much luck there > >(and altvista didn't translate J2E at all). > >"quickwave" seems to be a wireless security card. > > > >Do you have any other 'keywords' that might be associated with this program? > > > >Robert > > > >Evan Scott wrote: > > > > > >>Ninja Switch, RemoveMEinfoTakeThisOuTfusionsys.com. Team Quickwave, > >>www.alpha-net.ne.ip/users2/tetsuyat/teamquickwave/index.html > >> > >>Robert Rolf wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I saw an interesting Windows 9x program many years ago, that let you run > >>>multiple machines AS IF you had a multiple monitor desktop. > >>>If you moved the mouse off your current screen it would take over > >>>control of a DIFFERENT machine, whose monitor was next to the primary one, > >>>as if you had an automatic switch box that connected your keyboard and > >>>mouse to that new machine when you moved off screen. > >>> > >>>Anyone know what the software was/is called? It used a network connection > >>>to pass the 'pointer and keyboard' info, but used the screen borders to > >>>change the focus to another machine. It certainly isn't PCanywhere > >>>(which STILL doesn't have multimonitor support) or VNC. > >>> > >>>I'd love to have this for my current cluster of one-headed machines. > >>>Any leads? > >>> > >>>TIA > >>> > >>>Robert > >>> > >>> > > > >-- > >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > >(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

Uh, uh... I didn't mean to imply that it did... I only mentioned RAdmin as a contrast between a KM (like Ninja Switch) and a KVM (like RAdmin).. Mitchell D. Miller wrote: {Quote hidden}>But ... Remote Administrator does not do the automatic switching between >screens as originally request, right? We use RAdmin to manage about >12,000 PCs (my employer) and I don't recall ever having seen this feature! >This would be very sweet, however, as I have three monitors at my own >desk, and would like the mouse and keyboard to automatically switch as I >move the mouse around. Actually, I'd like it to monitor my eyes and >switch as I look from one monitor to the other, but I'd live with mouse >movement if I have to <g>. > >-- Mitch > > >On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Evan Scott wrote: > > > >>Actually, after re-reading your m\initial query I realized Ninja Switch >>(which doesn't seem to have a source any longer anyway) is probably not >>the app you need... I suggest Remote Administrator instead... >>http://www.radmin.com (which is active). >> >>Robert Rolf wrote: >> >> >> >>>Thanks for the pointer, but the URL returns 'host not found'. >>>"Ninja Switch" returns about a dozen hits, none of which seem to be >>>the program. fusionsys.com is in Japanese so I didn't have much luck there >>>(and altvista didn't translate J2E at all). >>>"quickwave" seems to be a wireless security card. >>> >>>Do you have any other 'keywords' that might be associated with this program? >>> >>>Robert >>> >>>Evan Scott wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Ninja Switch, spamBeGoneinfospamBeGonefusionsys.com. Team Quickwave, >>>>www.alpha-net.ne.ip/users2/tetsuyat/teamquickwave/index.html >>>> >>>>Robert Rolf wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>I saw an interesting Windows 9x program many years ago, that let you run >>>>>multiple machines AS IF you had a multiple monitor desktop. >>>>>If you moved the mouse off your current screen it would take over >>>>>control of a DIFFERENT machine, whose monitor was next to the primary one, >>>>>as if you had an automatic switch box that connected your keyboard and >>>>>mouse to that new machine when you moved off screen. >>>>> >>>>>Anyone know what the software was/is called? It used a network connection >>>>>to pass the 'pointer and keyboard' info, but used the screen borders to >>>>>change the focus to another machine. It certainly isn't PCanywhere >>>>>(which STILL doesn't have multimonitor support) or VNC. >>>>> >>>>>I'd love to have this for my current cluster of one-headed machines. >>>>>Any leads? >>>>> >>>>>TIA >>>>> >>>>>Robert >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>-- >>>http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics >>>(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different >>ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. >> >> >> > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different >ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.