Put CPU in another Room

  I don't really want a laptop cuz I can get much more for my money with a
desktop.  Is there anyway to hookup a keyboard, monitor and mouse to a
box that is in another room, such as in a basement, so I can save space
in a bedroom, and not have to listen to the fan, etc?

 There are some possibilities. It depends on what you wanna do with the
computer.

The easiest method would be to buy very long cables for monitor,
keyboard and mouse. I know that there are some cables for monitors but I
have no clue what about the other devices. Maybe you have to use USB
keyboard and mouse. AFAIR there were some long cables. But this a
solution only if the basement is not too far from the room.

Another way would be to buy / get a very slow PC (maybe you know
somebody who want's to give his old PC into garbage). On this one you
would install an old windows version like Win98 or better Linux. Then
you could connect both computers via network cables and establish
desktop data forwardding. That means that the screen and the input data
from keyboard etc. are sent over network to the working PC. This works
with VNC or SSH with X-Forwadding (last only with both PCs running under
Linux).

So if you are using Windows (what I expect) then best would be long
cables...

Daniel Böhmer

  Daniel Böhmer wrote:

Or just enable Remote Desktop on your PC in the basement, and use either
MSTSC on windows or RDESKTOP on Linux...

Marc

 
"Marc" <Marc*dot*hulsebosch*at*gmail*dot*com> wrote in message

  But then the Penguin would have to admit that Linux isn't the
only answer.  Sometimes I think they should have chosen a
different bird, the Ostrich.

LOL;
    Ken

 Hi Ken


Sorry, I forgot about the Remote-Desktop connection because I have never
ever tried to use it. But I think it should work in the same way as VNC
and other stuff. But please don't say anything against penguins;-)

Daniel Böhmer, Germany
(who has got a penguin made of wood in his room)