I was looking into a KVM switch, for building a render farm. When I ran into this application.
It's called Synergy. Check out this YouTube video:

www.youtube.com/watch

That's pretty sweet.  Thanks for the info.  I just set up a computer as a media center on my HDTV.  This will come in handy.

Thanks again.

Neat.  I've been looking for a KVM switch myself, I may try this first.

great tip , does this work over ip too so that i can move halodrains mousepointer too ;P

uhoh, haha

I haven't tried it yet myself, but I thought it was a good find. I have been giving some thought about putting together a render farm. I've been thinking about using Debian, and customizing with ArtistsX. Synergy looks promising.

I just got synergy working between my desktop and media center.  It becomes addicting very quickly.  I can just scroll off to the right to change songs playing on jango and download some games on gametap on my media center computer, then scroll back to my desktop to browse the web from or work with Blender.

hehehe... thanks again...

If only I could get my damn laptop working on my network.  What a pain.  Anyone have some secret fix to get a laptop working?

Wow, that sounds cool.  I haven't even got my network setup yet. Sorry, I don't even own a laptop.
Keep us updated though. Thanks!

I did get my laptop working on my network.  I tried the ethernet cable and it worked fine, it was only the wireless way that didn't work.  So I retyped in my WEP key and that apparently was the problem.  
It would allow me to access the Web via the router but not the network and apparently, they didn't give you the courtesy of programing in a "What's Up" kinda clause when your WEP key isn't excepted.

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Also, discovered on the first working attempt, that you have to set up a 'link' to go to another computer AND to get back.  The first time it work, I scrolled over to the other machine and couldn't get back.  CTRL - ALT - DEL got me to the Task Manager on the server, but I couldn't use it because the mouse and keyboard were still stuck on the other machine.  Next step, I killed the client on the machine I was stuck on and that brought me back to the original computer.  :)

Sorry it took so long to reply, I've been spreading myself thin. 
Strange, I was under the impression that synergy would work with wireless networks.
The CNet demonstrator, referred to it as (geeky double duty).  I think I understood her correctly.

I still haven't had a lot of time to play with it yet.  Getting ready for winter, and recovering from a pulled muscle,  it slowed me down quite a bit.  You said, they didn't program in What's Up.  Check this YouTube video out:

www.youtube.com/watch

It was this video, that sold me on synergy.

"Also, discovered on the first working attempt, that you have to set up a 'link' to go to another computer AND to get back.  The first time it work, I scrolled over to the other machine and couldn't get back.  CTRL - ALT - DEL got me to the Task Manager on the server, but I couldn't use it because the mouse and keyboard were still stuck on the other machine.  Next step, I killed the client on the machine I was stuck on and that brought me back to the original computer.  :)"

As I said, I haven't had a lot of time to mess with it myself, but it sounds like the clients were recognized.  But the server wasn't.
You might be able to find the answer on the web page:
                                                                                                     synergy2.sourceforge.net/

If you can't find an answer there, try their help fourm:
                                                                                                    sourceforge.net/forum/

Again, sorry it took so long to reply

Oh... I've got it working just fine now.  The wireless is working fine too.  I retyped my network key, must have been off..

Works great now. Thanks again.

I'm glad things worked out.
I am wondering though, are you using multiple operating systems?  And if so, can you access the Internet through one of your client nodes? 
I'm just wondering if I can do Linux updates, through a Windows server with a Internet connection using synergy? I hope that makes sense.

Quote - I'm glad things worked out.
I am wondering though, are you using multiple operating systems?  And if so, can you access the Internet through one of your client nodes? 
I'm just wondering if I can do Linux updates, through a Windows server with a Internet connection using synergy? I hope that makes sense.

  No.. I'm just using Windows at this time.  If I understand you correctly, I don't believe it would let you access the web through synergy.  From what I understand, it just allows you to be the mouse and keyboard for any machine on the local network.  
  It seems like for what your asking, why not just use a gateway/router ?

I've heard of them, but I'm not real familiar with them. I'll have to do a search, and see what I can find out.  Thanks.