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KVMing It Bigtime Baby!
February 10, 2005
KVMing It Bigtime Baby!
I’m sitting here at my desk loading Windows on a Gateway 333Mhz Celeron while posting this entry using my main PC, staring at the same monitor, toggling back and forth between machines thanks to a lovely and wonderful creation called a KVM switch. I can share the same mouse, keyboard and monitor w/up to four different computers and toggle merrily through them, virtually skipping in a chartreuse-colored, faerie-like wonderland of pure pixie-dusted electronic computer joy. Bouncing around from computer to computer like the moth larva, Laspeyresia saltitans trying to escape it’s tight and confining prison ala a Mexican Jumping Bean or a whacked-out crack junky at a bail hearing… it’s a beautiful thing.
This KVM is SWEET! It’s not one of those cheap plastic, futzy crappy-assed flaky sizzle before you get it out of the box KVMs, no sirree Bob/ Dick/ Jane. It’s a Belkin OmniView SE 4 port PS/2 KVM Model # F1D074 and I LUV it! They don’t make babies like this anymore.
All this is possible thanks to a good friend, who will not be named here because every time I do he/she gets tons of “hey can I have some stuff” emails. *wave* Hey buddy! THANKS! *end waving*
I felt good at finally being able to send he/she some cash (a pathetic amount) but also a gift in return, a Microsoft Spot Watch I won at this year’s CES. The suckers go for a pretty penny on eBay and well… he/she deserves it even though you need a subscription for it to tell time. *whistles innocently* Seriously. Well, come on don’t say you’re surprised, look who made it. No habla subscription, no habla tell-timey.
Before getting that ton of older computer equipment a few short months ago I didn’t need a KVM switch; I only had one computer. After putting together as many machines as I have parts for I’ll keep one or two and sell off the rest here locally. So I’m busy assembling the suckers and hooking them up to the KVM allows me to switch rapidly between computers while still using my main PC. Shweet! It felt very cool indeed to load windows on one machine, play around with my test box and write this entry up on my main PC, toggling back and forth using the same mouse/ monitor/ keyboard. Ahhhh… I could so get used to this. Geek on, people. I am. THANKS BUDDY!!
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Windows will be installed in 27 minutes…
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Playing Bejeweled 2 Deluxe… Score: 235,300
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Accessing nekkid.groundsquirrels.com…
EEeep! Gotta go uh… must be a browser hijacker. Yeah, that’s it.
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7 comments
Sounds you are geeking out on your kvm switch. Enjoy, at least you can afford to have more than one pc, I can't.
Oh well, if I could just get rid of this cold. *achoo* So I got all his inventory! See the good that comes from helping people? So I've had this stuff in my room and closets and now I'm going through it all and putting together machines.
Funny thing is my favorite spare machine, my test rig - a HP Pavillion Celeron 1.1Ghz I got the same day the maintenance man dropped off his inventory. And not from him oddly enough. My father was taking out the garbage, then when he came back he found it laying in the grass and it wasn't there when he went to take out the trash. It was minus the drive, CD drive and outer casing but it had 256MB of PC-100 RAM and 2 128MB sticks of PC-133! It's lightweight and I can lug it around almost as easy as a laptop after putting a 20gig HD and CD drive in it, it's the perfect backup computer/ test rig/ download of the internet box! Woo-hoo!
It's raining over here. Dress warm and rest until you get rid o'that cold man!
I am, but by last count, I have had 9 colds in 2 weeks. Luckily you can't transmit colds and flus over the internet. Check your basement, don't want it flooded. The above statement explains where you got the pcs.
Me, I got my pcs via internet "bargains". The current 3 year old pc was built by a guy who no longer returns my emails or phone calls. Supposed to be a college student doing this for money, but my guess was that he was a scammer doing it for the money. At least I got a good motherboard from him.
I had to replace one stick of memory (the other stick was dead) and hard drive in this pc (the other hard drive died 3 weeks after I got this pc 3 years ago). I put in a new video card (it was new 2 years ago), because the old video card was a little slow.
I thank my dad every day for when we find these "bargain" computers online. But I have learned via my first Windows pc from Tigerdirect, to only have name brand pc components. Name brand pcs are ok, but as you have said in your blog, it's better to build your own.
My dad and sister love having a computer geek in the family, so you can imagine the phone calls I get from them when their pcs won't work right. I even gave my old HP Pavilion to my mom and stepdad, so that my stepdad can get used to using the darn thing. Of course I put in some spare parts that I had lying around here into the old HP workhorse to make it work better, a better video card, dialup modem, hard drive. Yes I learned from you to never throw away or sell any computer part just in case you may need it in the future.
Now if I just could get that female android booted up, darn alien code embedded into her neural net, no way around the old password (and if anyone can understand this joke, you are a geek). Ah well, guess I will have to hack into her synapses via my earth-styled network and desktop pc. Hope Windows XP doesn't crash in the middle of the hack, or I'm in trouble.
"Who are you? How did I get here?" Now, now. She's running a self diagnostic and is pleased with the removal of the password, but now she's asking a lot of questions that I don't think she should know the answers to. Can't tell her I found her in the middle of a field with a blank look on her face. Oh well, just thought I would have fun with you geeks. Smile, you've been pranked!
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