Why? A single point of failure is only a problem if it fails and there is no overcapacity. A well-designed grid should rarely have failures and should have overcapacity, and it's highly likely that large-scale centralized power generation will be more efficient than small-scale decentralized.
Bullshit. You don't get "harassed" on the internet, you learn to deal with criticism and sometimes insults. "Harassment" is about people causing you issues in REAL LIFE, stopping you doing REAL LIFE stuff, not text on the internet.
I had to learn this lesson within 5 minutes of joining various online communities. I learned it. I did not make everything about me and my feels. Then again, we didn't have Tumblr back then.
Unfortunately ConnectPRO are very US-centric and being in the UK I don't think ordering from them would be an option, and even if it was they would probably send me a US plug instead of a UK one.:-)
OK well I've gotten it working quite well now. It's slightly annoying because if it continues presenting the video channel, my dual-screen PC or extended laptop won't drop out of 2 screen mode even when I'm not displaying one of those screens anymore. However I can quite quickly just tell windows to switch to one screen with a couple of "Win+P" keyboard presses.
I've also gotten USB to switch nicely between the different PCs, by *not* using the designated "keyboard" and "mouse" ports on the switch, but just by plugging them in to the "regular" USB ports which can be switched separately (the designated keyboard and mouse ports are undesirably switched with monitor1 and strangely they don't even seem to work properly). The PC rediscovers the USB keyboard and mouse each time I switch but it seems to work pretty well and quickly.
OK just FYI everyone, I went ahead and bought a CM0264 and... it doesn't disconnect the inputs of the video channels that aren't currently selected. So basically it's the same thing as plugging the video cables directly into monitors with multiple inputs. Not such a great recommendation there.
The original point being made in this thread was that the monitors would be connected directly to the PCs, and the monitor inputs would be changed to achieve single or dual screen capability. That would solve the video issue without the use of a KVM (but as mentioned before, the problem would be that the monitor would still tell the PC that it was connected even if the input was not set to that PC).
Exactly. When the monitor changes inputs, the other PCs still think they're connected to the monitor and so if they're in dual-screen mode, they won't automatically drop back to single screen mode. Unless there's a monitor that tells the PCs whose inputs aren't selected that the monitor has been disconnected, this will be an annoyance.
The one you link to is not a matrix KVM. It will only switch dual screen inputs out to two screens, but it will not provide the option to display an input from one display on one monitor and an input from another display on another.
The problem with something like the CM0264 is that is lumps SCREEN1 and INPUTS into one category that it calls "KVM1" in the manual. So let's say I have CPU1 and CPU4 displaying as KVM1 and V2 on monitors 1 and 2. I'm OK if I want to control CPU1, but what if I want to keep those monitors the same and switch over control to the other computer? I can't see a way to do it. When you switch KVM1 over, it switches the video for SCREEN1 over at the same time.
Why on earth do all these matrix devices use IR remote controls that are liable to break easily? Is it so hard for them to just put buttons on the switch itself? Literally all of them seem to use stupid remote controls.:-(
What you want is called a matrix KVM switch. They exist, but they're quite expensive, do some Googling on matrix KVM switch and you'll see the options.
Well there's certainly a bunch of them out there, but I still can't see one that does exactly what I want, even if I just stick to video and ignore the USB aspect of it. Could you provide an example of one that takes in a bunch of dual-monitor HDMI inputs, and allows either dual monitor output to 2 monitors, or single monitor output for any one of the inputs to each screen?
Sorry to seem lazy, but could you provide a couple of examples of KVM switches that will allow me to route the video any way I want? All the ones I can see always route the video from one device to the console at one time, or don't provide the option for dual-screen functionality.
I have to say that while Win10 is, relatively speaking, the best OS microsoft ever made
No it isn't. I tried it out and it was actually even worse than I thought it was gonna be. Obviously there's the whole privacy-invading aspect, but it also just has a really awful UI (at least the desktop version). It's half-mobile, half-Win7 style. And it's the Win7 half that doesn't look like complete crap (monochrome icons, hideous blue/grey/white theme) and it's the Win7 half that will presumably get completely removed over time. Customizability? If you call the option to change your start menu colour customizing, I guess. Of course, you could already do that in Windows 7. If anything I found the start menu less customizable, apart from the heap of crap that is Metro tiles, which I don't want on my PC. Just about the only thing I vaguely liked was Cortana, which was kinda fun for 10 minutes but I don't care about in day-to-day computing.
Microsoft are trying to shoehorn a mobile OS onto the desktop and it shows. It was a shitty idea from day one and it's a shitty idea now. Why would I switch from Windows 7 (at least for the next 20 years)?
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Why? A single point of failure is only a problem if it fails and there is no overcapacity. A well-designed grid should rarely have failures and should have overcapacity, and it's highly likely that large-scale centralized power generation will be more efficient than small-scale decentralized.
What about the externality of wind power that it takes up a fuckton of space? That's one the greenies never seem to include, for some reason...
Bullshit. You don't get "harassed" on the internet, you learn to deal with criticism and sometimes insults. "Harassment" is about people causing you issues in REAL LIFE, stopping you doing REAL LIFE stuff, not text on the internet.
I had to learn this lesson within 5 minutes of joining various online communities. I learned it. I did not make everything about me and my feels. Then again, we didn't have Tumblr back then.
Also, please to type out "Period" as if it was an argument. It is not and it makes your entire post look childish.
I think it was just her indicating she had to end her post there because she was leaving to take care of a ... women's issue.
Is there a vagina-to-good-code ratio? Please cite the evidence for this.
HFCS *and* Jack Daniels? Are you trying to punish your body?
Their hosted email is admittedly very good, but it's still not "yours" and not reliable in the case of network failure, Azure hiccups, etc.
And I still don't know what their recommended solution is for accessing O365 on that day every leap year.
Can we send a moon to crash into Pluto, making it large enough to be a planet by the new definition? ;-)
Unfortunately ConnectPRO are very US-centric and being in the UK I don't think ordering from them would be an option, and even if it was they would probably send me a US plug instead of a UK one. :-)
OK well I've gotten it working quite well now. It's slightly annoying because if it continues presenting the video channel, my dual-screen PC or extended laptop won't drop out of 2 screen mode even when I'm not displaying one of those screens anymore. However I can quite quickly just tell windows to switch to one screen with a couple of "Win+P" keyboard presses.
I've also gotten USB to switch nicely between the different PCs, by *not* using the designated "keyboard" and "mouse" ports on the switch, but just by plugging them in to the "regular" USB ports which can be switched separately (the designated keyboard and mouse ports are undesirably switched with monitor1 and strangely they don't even seem to work properly). The PC rediscovers the USB keyboard and mouse each time I switch but it seems to work pretty well and quickly.
OK just FYI everyone, I went ahead and bought a CM0264 and... it doesn't disconnect the inputs of the video channels that aren't currently selected. So basically it's the same thing as plugging the video cables directly into monitors with multiple inputs. Not such a great recommendation there.
The original point being made in this thread was that the monitors would be connected directly to the PCs, and the monitor inputs would be changed to achieve single or dual screen capability. That would solve the video issue without the use of a KVM (but as mentioned before, the problem would be that the monitor would still tell the PC that it was connected even if the input was not set to that PC).
Why's it a small part of the battle? I'd say the video setup is the hardest part.
Exactly. When the monitor changes inputs, the other PCs still think they're connected to the monitor and so if they're in dual-screen mode, they won't automatically drop back to single screen mode. Unless there's a monitor that tells the PCs whose inputs aren't selected that the monitor has been disconnected, this will be an annoyance.
The one you link to is not a matrix KVM. It will only switch dual screen inputs out to two screens, but it will not provide the option to display an input from one display on one monitor and an input from another display on another.
They are not matrix KVMs.
The problem with something like the CM0264 is that is lumps SCREEN1 and INPUTS into one category that it calls "KVM1" in the manual. So let's say I have CPU1 and CPU4 displaying as KVM1 and V2 on monitors 1 and 2. I'm OK if I want to control CPU1, but what if I want to keep those monitors the same and switch over control to the other computer? I can't see a way to do it. When you switch KVM1 over, it switches the video for SCREEN1 over at the same time.
Why on earth do all these matrix devices use IR remote controls that are liable to break easily? Is it so hard for them to just put buttons on the switch itself? Literally all of them seem to use stupid remote controls. :-(
OK so you're drawing a distinction between KVM and "HDMI matrix switch". Could you suggest one or two good HDMI matrix switches then?
What you want is called a matrix KVM switch. They exist, but they're quite expensive, do some Googling on matrix KVM switch and you'll see the options.
Well there's certainly a bunch of them out there, but I still can't see one that does exactly what I want, even if I just stick to video and ignore the USB aspect of it. Could you provide an example of one that takes in a bunch of dual-monitor HDMI inputs, and allows either dual monitor output to 2 monitors, or single monitor output for any one of the inputs to each screen?
Sorry to seem lazy, but could you provide a couple of examples of KVM switches that will allow me to route the video any way I want? All the ones I can see always route the video from one device to the console at one time, or don't provide the option for dual-screen functionality.
That switch doesn't seem to have a dual-screen option; just single screen for 4 devices.
Multiple keyboards and mice are an option as a fallback but I'd really like to avoid that as it's going to use up way more desk space.
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I have to say that while Win10 is, relatively speaking, the best OS microsoft ever made
No it isn't. I tried it out and it was actually even worse than I thought it was gonna be. Obviously there's the whole privacy-invading aspect, but it also just has a really awful UI (at least the desktop version). It's half-mobile, half-Win7 style. And it's the Win7 half that doesn't look like complete crap (monochrome icons, hideous blue/grey/white theme) and it's the Win7 half that will presumably get completely removed over time. Customizability? If you call the option to change your start menu colour customizing, I guess. Of course, you could already do that in Windows 7. If anything I found the start menu less customizable, apart from the heap of crap that is Metro tiles, which I don't want on my PC. Just about the only thing I vaguely liked was Cortana, which was kinda fun for 10 minutes but I don't care about in day-to-day computing.
Microsoft are trying to shoehorn a mobile OS onto the desktop and it shows. It was a shitty idea from day one and it's a shitty idea now. Why would I switch from Windows 7 (at least for the next 20 years)?