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    Leopard's "Back To My Mac" creates vortex.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by sagebrush, Nov 21, 2007.

  1. sagebrush

    sagebrush Notebook Consultant

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    As many of you may know, Leopard has a built-in screen sharing feature that can be utilized by anyone with a .Mac account and two Macs within a local network running Leopard.
    I've been utilizing this feature a lot while at work. I typically bring my MBP with me to the studio so I can engage in personal stuff during breaks without cluttering my workstation with personal data. This feature allows me to access my MBP from my workstation. So... even though it looks like I'm hard at work on my Mac Pro... I am, in reality, doodling around on my notebook.
    Anyway... yesterday, while doodling, I discovered a fun, yet pointless, hole (literally) in this feature--
    While I was screen sharing my MBP while physically on my Mac Pro, I decided to screen share my Mac Pro through the remote screen share of my MBP. :)
    As you can logically conclude... this then opened up a portal into another dimension and I spent the evening with Quinn Mallory and the rest of the Sliders... just kidding... actually... this cross-sharing created a vortex of screens that seemed to continue into oblivion.
    Here is what it looked like--
    [​IMG]

    I would have thought that performing such an infinite action would result in a something disastrous, if not just frozen, but I was actually able to continue working on both systems. You could even drag the shared windows around creating these 3D tunnels (holes) in your desktop. Quite Cool! This is definitely "Show & Tell" type stuff for any of you with geeky friends.

    Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everybody! Your the best!
     
    sagebrush, Nov 21, 2007
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  2. arikol

    arikol Notebook Geek

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    Cool, and no crashing, surprising and impressive :)
     
    arikol, Nov 21, 2007
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  3. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    That is wicked sick! Did it just keep opening more and more screens?
     
    pixelot, Nov 21, 2007
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  4. desertmike

    desertmike Notebook Consultant

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    Sagebrush, you have a great Thanksgiving too....your posts have been very helpful to me as being someone to make the switch to the MBP. I have learned a lot so far. Sam too, you have helped a lot.

    -Mike

    Edit: Hey, how long do I have to be a Geek?...Guru sounded better!
     
    desertmike, Nov 21, 2007
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  5. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    I think you change at 100 posts to something else again, desertmike :).

    And whoa...I can't see the end...just like in Time Machine :D.
     
    Sam, Nov 21, 2007
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  6. circa86

    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    you should do that exact same thing while playing a video or looking at at image that is a dead on 1 point perspective.

    like a car driving down a rode or something, that would be disturbing.

    also, I bet that looks very strange when moving the window around.
     
    circa86, Nov 21, 2007
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