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As our hard drive free space becomes lesser and lesser, we tend to wonder what uses them so much (even though sometimes we do forgot about that 50GB complete series TV shows that we’ve downloaded over the past months). One way is to check your folder sizes one by one (which might take ages and potential RSI due to repetitive clicking).
Even then, you’ll probably see boring statistics like this:
Introduction
Thanks to the technology advancement and the always-going-down price of personal computers, most of us ended up with 2 or more computers at home (like me, for instance, I have a desktop running on Linux - which is pretty much my download slave and a business notebook running Windows which I use in the office and at home).
Sometimes you might need to use these computers simultaneously, and trust me - using more than one set of keyboard and mouse not only troublesome, but at some point you will get frustrated, not to mention that it can get confusing when you’re trying to do too many things at once. Initially, i used VNC to remote into my second PC, but soon I find the speed of which it updates the screen starting to nibble on my short temper. I don’t want to talk about KVM, because firstly, my primary machine is a notebook, and it won’t accept any means of display input - plus always flipping through the switch can be troublesome too.
At last! Found the ultimate solution! - Synergy
After snooping around in various forums and blogs, I found a neat piece of software called “Synergy”. There’s a plenty that I liked about this software:
There are a few more neat things about Synergy:
Let’s see how to set it up!
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I had this phenomenon for a few days - I couldn’t send out any mail with the web-interface, my pop mail client won’t connect without crashing (I’m using Evolution Mail). Uploads to my blog, imageshack, GMail attachment or any other web-based upload doesn’t work at all.
Most of the time, the website does not respond at all after clicking the Send/Upload button. GMail has more courtesy, it told me “Oops! Error 007/008 …. “. Lookup at GMail help page suggests that either GMail is down or connection problem. GMail is not down. So must be my connection.
I’m clueless. And for good 3 days, I almost gave up on Linux (again). Then a few things hit my head - DNS and MTU
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Honestly I’m sick of Windows for the time being - it is very hard to keep your system tidy and up to mark without doing any significant tweaking, installing various security tools and make sure everything is up to date and in check. Chances are, once a while you’ll have some unexpected viral being transmitted in a newly discovered loophole, that even your best security suite could miss. By the time any patches are released to overcome such problem, the damage has already been done.
The only thing I like of using Windows is by far the fact that almost all games are designed to be run on windows-only, and the fact that it is rather easy to use. At least for Windows XP. Vista is coming soon, but I don’t think I can afford owning one license of such OS. Not to mention that I’ll definitely need a major hardware upgrade! More money, which I don’t have!
So, one day, I sit down in the office and decided that I’ll really try out Linux this time and try to make it work. After scouting around for which distribution I should try, I ended up with uBuntu. Once I finished getting the ISO images, burned them, and then use some partitioning tool to make space on my hard drive for the uBuntu installation.
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