Console switcher
News, Technical ·Sunday April 19, 2009 @ 19:01 EDT (link)
My Trendnet TK-209K KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) switch arrived yesterday (from Amazon); it came with all the cables and was fairly easy to set up: for each machine, there's one audio cable (speaker/microphone to a small USB connector for the switch) and a VGA/USB cable that handles screen, keyboard, and mouse. My speakers (it switches audio too), USB mouse and keyboard, and monitor plug into the switch; buttons on top switch between machines. The only issue is that my new machine is hooked up to DVI, which works fine switching to it (the monitor notices there's no VGA input and goes to DVI, but it needs to be switched back manually using the monitor controls). It also did something odd that made the laptop lose network, but it went away on reboot (but it wouldn't boot up with the switch connected; kept powering down). Overall I'd recommend it, even with those minor issues.
Books finished: Paradise Lost.DVDs finished: Friends: The Complete Sixth Season, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 1.
