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Can adopting a healthier lifestyle later in life help -- or is it too late? In a study published in the July 2007 issue of the American Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston found that people 45 to 64 years of age who added healthy lifestyle behaviors could substantially reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease and reduce their death rate.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070628062144.htm

TechnoTheMage writes "Years ago, in 2003 I believe, I asked slashdot for a solution to a piece of fantastic software that no longer worked under WindowsXP. It was called teleffect and it would allow you to control multiple machines over a TCP/IP connection. So if you had say 2 laptops and a desktop next to each other you could use any of the machines to control all of them with one keyboard and mouse.

Why would you do this? ok short version.. say you have one machine surfing the web and capturing video, the second machine researching outlook email and doing large file copies and a third you are configuring because its a new install and you have to keep rebooting it..

Second scenario: Say you play warcraft and you have two accounts and you want to control both characters at the same time because you are power leveling one of them.. Maybe you have three accounts.. Nuff said for WoW players...

With this software the possibilities for using your nice high end input devices with all your machines becomes wide open. I found Synergy was just not as good as teleffect. There were always slowdowns and gittery control when the cpu was under a large load or even a slight load. This never happened with teleffect and there has got to be something better.

OK so back to 2003.. After trying all the possible options I eventually gave up and have just lived without the software. It has been sorely missed and recently I am in the need of the software again. I have included the link from the original post which outlines all the suggestions and opinions which I am sure will be reproduced again.

Does anyohne know of software like Synergy2 but works better? You should feel like you were sitting in front of any machine you control with no slowdown or stickiness. Yes I have used the latest version of Synergy, I am not just talking about the older version.

Here is the original link on slashdot:

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/17 44251&tid=185&tid=130&tid=201&tid=4

Techno The Mage out......"

admiralfrijole writes "Earlier this week, several people opened tickets against Adium crashes occurring in the latest Leopard Beta, which started a veritable firestorm of controversy that included discussions of GPL violations, disabling features, and quite a spat across no less than 3 different IRC channels.

Today, one of the people who filed a ticket and was told that it would not be fixed until Leopard ships announced on his blog that he, and several other unnamed individuals, have forked Adium to create A.org."
http://frijole.livejournal.com/471276.html