Its the software….

So I’ve been spending a lot of time at work staring into my laptop’s screen at work a lot recently.

Little laptop screens are not the best thing for eyestrain, but after some luck I’ve got 3 unused flat panel monitors in my cube. I’ve got it plugged into one of them so that I’m not quite so eyesore when I get home each night. Still… using only 1/2 of the available screenage in my cube disturbs me. So I went on a hunt, and found this piece of software. ScreenRecycler allows a (mac only, sorry) computer to use the display of whatever older computer you have laying around to drive a secondary (or third, in my case) monitor into a computer with only one video card. It’s much nicer to keep some picture on the displays I’ve got sitting around.

It uses VNC in order to pipe the video to the remote screen so the refresh rate is not-so-great and 3d is not possible, but it works pretty well for $25. I’m not sure you can do this with (existing software) for a linux machine even….