I was attempting to set up a mIRC session to allow me to type from any computer in my LAN. It would be nice if I were able to chat using the same nick from my laptop as from my desktop without haveing to quit and rejoin (so I can keep the logs and other reasons). Now, I looked at DDE a bit for this, but I didn't want to write a new application if someone else had done work on this (as search for "dde" here will also return results with posts using the word "added").
Now, I could run a VNC, except for that my laptop has a max viewing of 800x600, and I like my desktop at 1280x1024. Perhaps a bnc would work as well, but I haven't seen one that appears to support multiple loggins.
Anyway, if someone has solved a similar problem, I would be glad to hear how it was done.