So, I finally got Snow Leopard working on my AMD machine, and it mostly behaves
itslef...

I was playing around with a Control panel I found, called Teleport, which
creates a network based software interface for controlling multiple Macs with
one mouse/keyboard, and I thought "There shouldn't really be any reason this
couldn't operate cross-platform".

If both computers have the application running, the Master sends a signal to the
Slave telling the controller to re-raise a given IO signal.

So, I guess my question is: Is this possible, or is it more complicated than I
think it would be?

I thought about suggesting it to the software developer, but it doesn't look
like they've read their forums in a while, and it's full of spam.


Regards,
A.D.B.


P.S. Happy New Year.

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On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:16:00 -0500, Anthony D. Baye wrote:

> So, I guess my question is: Is this possible, or is it more complicated
> than I think it would be?

There's a wonderful tool out there called Synergy+ that does this.  I use 
it across three displays and systems.  There is an OSX port of it, and it 
is cross-platform.

http://synergy-foss.org/

Jim

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:16:00 -0500, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
>
> > So, I guess my question is: Is this possible, or is it more complicated
> > than I think it would be?
>
> There's a wonderful tool out there called Synergy+ that does this.  I use
> it across three displays and systems.  There is an OSX port of it, and it
> is cross-platform.
>
> http://synergy-foss.org/
>
> Jim

Next question:

Does it ever bother anyone else that all the good ideas seem to be taken?

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"Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:16:00 -0500, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> >
> > > So, I guess my question is: Is this possible, or is it more complicated
> > > than I think it would be?
> >
> > There's a wonderful tool out there called Synergy+ that does this.  I use
> > it across three displays and systems.  There is an OSX port of it, and it
> > is cross-platform.
> >
> > http://synergy-foss.org/
> >
> > Jim
>
> Next question:
>
> Does it ever bother anyone else that all the good ideas seem to be taken?

of course, the nice thing about Teleport is that the Leopard version still
supports G5, whereas Synergy appears to be i386 only.

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On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:14:31 -0500, Anthony D. Baye wrote:

> Does it ever bother anyone else that all the good ideas seem to be
> taken?

Yep, I'd love to come up with an untaken good idea, as that would 
certainly help pay the bills. ;)

Jim

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On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:02:14 -0500, Anthony D. Baye wrote:

> of course, the nice thing about Teleport is that the Leopard version
> still supports G5, whereas Synergy appears to be i386 only.

I wonder if it could be compiled on the other system - it's OSS, so could 
be worth a try. :)

Jim

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:14:31 -0500, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
>
> > Does it ever bother anyone else that all the good ideas seem to be
> > taken?
>
> Yep, I'd love to come up with an untaken good idea, as that would
> certainly help pay the bills. ;)
>
> Jim

Look how well it worked for Notch.

I wonder if it could be compiled on the other system - it's OSS, so could
be worth a try. :)

I've been trying, but the configuration is set to compile only to i386 if the
DARWIN_VERSION is greater than or equal to 9, and even when I fix that, I get an
error about an unrecognized compiler flag -arch.

because Apple's gcc is a wrapper around the real gcc, which only recognizes a
subset of flags, and -arch is not one of them.  I don't have any experience with
large code-bases, so I'm a little over my head, atm.  I'm not even sure that
fixing those two things would be enough to build the project.

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On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:50:13 -0500, Anthony D. Baye wrote:

> Look how well it worked for Notch.

Indeed. :)

> I've been trying, but the configuration is set to compile only to i386
> if the DARWIN_VERSION is greater than or equal to 9, and even when I fix
> that, I get an error about an unrecognized compiler flag -arch.
> 
> because Apple's gcc is a wrapper around the real gcc, which only
> recognizes a subset of flags, and -arch is not one of them.  I don't
> have any experience with large code-bases, so I'm a little over my head,
> atm. I'm not even sure that fixing those two things would be enough to
> build the project.

Maybe someone in the project has some advice? :)

Jim

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:50:13 -0500, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
>
> > Look how well it worked for Notch.
>
> Indeed. :)
>
> > I've been trying, but the configuration is set to compile only to i386
> > if the DARWIN_VERSION is greater than or equal to 9, and even when I fix
> > that, I get an error about an unrecognized compiler flag -arch.
> >
> > because Apple's gcc is a wrapper around the real gcc, which only
> > recognizes a subset of flags, and -arch is not one of them.  I don't
> > have any experience with large code-bases, so I'm a little over my head,
> > atm. I'm not even sure that fixing those two things would be enough to
> > build the project.
>
> Maybe someone in the project has some advice? :)
>
> Jim

I'm currently trying to get XCode to compile it.  The problem is: The version
under leopard won't, because it claims that there are dependencies missing (They
look like they're there to me...) and there's a missing compiler flag -fsysroot.

the version under snow-leopard won't cross compile for ppc without jumping
through hoops (I have to uninstall xcode, re-install a previous version first,
minus a couple things, then reinstall the current version and make a bunch of
symlinks) according to stack overflow, that should get it to work...

*massages temples*

Why does it have to be this hard...

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On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:39:23 -0500, Anthony D. Baye wrote:

> Why does it have to be this hard...

You'd have to ask the developers - or Apple.  I don't use it on the Mac 
platform (don't have a Mac), so I can't help with that - but the devs who 
wrote it may have some experience, hence the reason I suggested asking 
them. ;)

Jim

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