For testing purposes, on a dual monitor twinview setup, I've fired up Xnest with geometry that matches the resolution of one of my monitors to give me the feel of 2 X sessions running at once.

Xnest -geometry 1920x1200 -query localhost :0

I know this doesn't exactly answer the question nor solve the problem of moving windows across X servers, but depending on why you are trying to run 2 separate X's, perhaps this could work. I find the Xnest is great for trying to debug users dot file problems or creating global X settings.

I also seem to remember a way to share just the graphics of a particular application between two remote X servers (i.e. display just firefox on a remote machine), but can't remember the exact command; this was back in the sgi days. At any rate, if you want to just see the same app running on both X sessions, perhaps something like that could work well if you use localhost.

Hope that helps, but like I said it doesn't sound exactly like what you are looking for.

humm, I've always said "who would of thought", but perhaps grammatically "who would have thought" is correct. I guess it's one of those phrases I've never actually written down before. I'll be sure to tell my kids about this so they won't make the same mistake; thanks.

Homeschool is not for everyone, but I've been pleasantly surprised by how well it seems to work. We have a few friends which unschool their kids but I don't notice much difference between the unschool kids and the more traditional home school kids.

As a father who goes to work and leaves most of the day to day schooling to the wife, here's some things I've come to find out which I didn't know about before we started home schooling.

Home schooling is probably more expensive then going to public school since you end up fronting the cost. However, it's nice that you can make your own schedule and not worry about some random gov. test that everyone has to take (i.e. you have more freedom with the curriculum and to go on trips).

The "sit down with workbooks" schooling only last an hour or two. sometimes the kids get into it and work on math for 4 hours straight (who would of thought) and other times they only get through 1 page in 20 min. When they get into something we try to take advantage and feed them all they will take in.

There are many organizations and events dedicated to home school. We belong to the Sonoma County Home School Association and have a lot of interaction with other home schoolers. In addition, many sports facilities offer home school discounts while regular school is in session (i.e. gymnastics and the roller skate place come to mind). I was concerned about the kids not having enough social contact but between all their sports throughout the year (gymnastics, soccer, baseball, ballet, tennis, golf), their home school groups (4H, violin), and their regular kids groups (cub scouts), that concern has been put to rest.

There are many labels for different kinds of home schooling, but rarely does anyone practice only one type strictly. There's also many different reasons people home school. My wife and I both hated going to public school (hours of B.S. in my opinion) but others may do it because of religious or other family reasons. I personally like many of the unschool ideas, but feel that there should be some structure so the kids can function in an academic environment; but that's just me and who am I to judge others. We'll go on trips and put away the books for a week or two and instead take more of an unschooling approach and just focus on what the kids want to learn (say geology if we go to some volcano). You'll find that the kids can come up with some very good questions which you then can follow up on for the next day or two.

Homeschool becomes a 365 days a year event. There's very little concept of "going on vacation". That said, we don't do much school on the weekend unless there's a learning opportunity to be had while we are out and about. It's a different way of learning then what I was taught; you are always looking for teaching opportunities instead of trying to manufacture them for 6 hours a day.

Anyway, I could go on but so far it's been a very positive experience in our family. My kids are under 10 still, but we've meet many teenage kids which have gone on to universities (Berkley, Stanford, Sonoma State, etc...) and didn't really seem to have any issue getting in. Seems like to get into a university you take the SAT and get your diploma equiv (not the ged); many don't seem to penalize you if you didn't go to public school (that' just secondhand observation on my part).

Oh yea, my system is extremely efficient, when the sun is out. In the winter, if it's a clear day, the tank will easily get up to the cap of 165. The main issue is our location, about 30 miles east of bodega bay. In the winter there's just not much sun out. Still, even on a cloudy day, the tank will get up to 125-130. The flat collectors in the the picture have the copper tubes inside of them filled with glycol which cycles down to the water heater. I got this system specifically because I liked the look of the panels when compared to the alternatives. It's great to hear other's experiences with solar hot water. I'm expecting this year will be much more efficient than last year since I now know how to dial in the system a bit better.

I've written a blog on my solar water heater which covers about the same year period as Loyd's solar panels about 100 miles north of Sunnyvale. Loyd's story is very useful to me as I've been debating if solar panels would improve the efficiency of the solar water heater. I'm still not sure this was a wise financial investment, but I do like how I get free hot water when the sun is out and the hot water never runs out (like with a tankless). Anyway, for those interested in solar water heating: http://suburbiasolarwaterheating.blogspot.com/