experience with mirror drivers for distributed workspace
Nowadays it becomes common for a person to have several computers at his disposal. Instead of treating each computer individually, the person would like to have all these computers form a distributed workspace. In other words, the person would like to access all these computers through any one of them. Recent technology advances in hardware and software make a distributed workspace possible. In this paper, we describe our experience of developing a distributed workspace using mirror drivers in Windows environment. By using a mirror driver, an application or the whole desktop of one computer can be shown on another computer very quickly. With the distributed workspace, a user is able to see any window in this workspace, to compare windows from different machines on the same screen, and to exchange information among computers.
mirror driver remote control ubiquitous computing