If you’ve more than one computer at your desk, and one of them is a Mac, you need osx2x. It lets you use all the other computers via VNC or X-Windows connections, using only the one mouse and keyboard. Shiny.
Sadly, the download link on the main site is broken. This is a bit of a pain as it doesn’t appear to be mirrored anywhere.
Luckily, I found one chap who had created a fresh distribution from the (still available) source: osx2x Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) Universal Binary. I’ve installed that version and it’s working great. My sincere thanks to jamesotron.
Update: Annoyingly, I can’t figure out how to right click when talking to the windows box. That’s a bit annoying.
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I like using Synergy:
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
There isn’t a nice GUI for it, but you can easily bridge OSX, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows machines.
Thanks for the tip! That looks exceedingly useful. I only picked up on osx2x because I saw somebody at work using it… I’ll give synergy a try instead though.