20th April 2001

At the radio station, I found myself sitting in front of three monitors... with three keyboards... and three (blind) mice. See how they run? See how they run? See how they run? Yeah, three times as slowly. Both space and time are wasted (sounds like the beginning of a good Star Trek episode, eh). Instead of flipping back and forth between peripherals, consider picking up what they call a KVM switch. KVM (if you haven't already figured it out) stands for Keyboard - Video - Mouse. It's almost mandatory for those of us with two or more desktop systems in our work area. With the flip of a switch, you could be operating on a secondary (tertiary, etc.) system. "Ah, I wonder how that audio compression is going on my Windows 2000 machine? CLICK! Beautiful. Now, what about the video processing in Windows 98? CLICK! Ah, almost finished. Back to hosting my network game on Linux. CLICK!" No getting out of your chair, no turning your head away from the screen. No lifting your hand to another mouse pad. No kidding.