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Jun. 25th, 2005 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI should write something here I suppose.
I've been excited over some software called RealVNC that I encountered at work. This is remote control software that lets you open another computer's desktop in a winow on your desktop. It is also not limited to Windows XP like remote desktop is. The server service can run on Windows, MacOS, UNIX, and others, and the viewer service is even more compatible and, supposedly, can run on everything from DOS to OS/2 to PalmOS. Nifty. Plus, there is a completely freeware version available.
I now have the server service installed on all of my computers at home so I can sit at my primary system and open windows with either my server or, if Andrea needs help with her computer, Andrea's system, so I can change settings and add or remove software without getting out of my seat. We use this software at work and it's phenomonal! I'm going to see if I can talk my parents into letting me set it up on their machines so I can remotely assist them that way. That will work especially well if I can get my domain controller set up and running and then turn it into a VPN server so my family can VPN to my network.
But in the meantime, I've got permission to VPN to the network where I work, so I can sit at my main system, connect in, and then VNC to my work computers (I have two computers at my desk and I open each one's desktop on one of the monitors of my home computer) and I can send email and perform administrative functions on Active Directory and the Exchange servers, and basically do whatever else I need to do, right from home. Why am I so inexplicably excited about the fact that I can do work at home? Isn't that supposed to be a bad thing?
Finally, going back to my domain controller, it seems to be dead. My external drive tower that I was using to host it's OS and data partition was dropped in the move and is not at all happy about it. I think I lost one drive out of the five in my RAID-5 partition, which isn't so bad, but I think I also lost the first drive which was my OS partition and wasn not mirrored. Oops. Good thing I hadn't put that server into production yet. I'm still going merrily along with my P-Pro 200, which works well enough for what I need it for. I'm just frustrated that I've got this Dual Pentium Pro 1GHZ Xeon machine that would make a phenomonal domain controller, VPN server, and and box to test Exchange Server on (among many other things) that is now just sitting here because I have no drives for it. Does anyone know where to get some SCSI drives, cheap? I'm not even sure what kind of SCSI it is; I've almost never worked with that kind of stuff.
I've been excited over some software called RealVNC that I encountered at work. This is remote control software that lets you open another computer's desktop in a winow on your desktop. It is also not limited to Windows XP like remote desktop is. The server service can run on Windows, MacOS, UNIX, and others, and the viewer service is even more compatible and, supposedly, can run on everything from DOS to OS/2 to PalmOS. Nifty. Plus, there is a completely freeware version available.
I now have the server service installed on all of my computers at home so I can sit at my primary system and open windows with either my server or, if Andrea needs help with her computer, Andrea's system, so I can change settings and add or remove software without getting out of my seat. We use this software at work and it's phenomonal! I'm going to see if I can talk my parents into letting me set it up on their machines so I can remotely assist them that way. That will work especially well if I can get my domain controller set up and running and then turn it into a VPN server so my family can VPN to my network.
But in the meantime, I've got permission to VPN to the network where I work, so I can sit at my main system, connect in, and then VNC to my work computers (I have two computers at my desk and I open each one's desktop on one of the monitors of my home computer) and I can send email and perform administrative functions on Active Directory and the Exchange servers, and basically do whatever else I need to do, right from home. Why am I so inexplicably excited about the fact that I can do work at home? Isn't that supposed to be a bad thing?
Finally, going back to my domain controller, it seems to be dead. My external drive tower that I was using to host it's OS and data partition was dropped in the move and is not at all happy about it. I think I lost one drive out of the five in my RAID-5 partition, which isn't so bad, but I think I also lost the first drive which was my OS partition and wasn not mirrored. Oops. Good thing I hadn't put that server into production yet. I'm still going merrily along with my P-Pro 200, which works well enough for what I need it for. I'm just frustrated that I've got this Dual Pentium Pro 1GHZ Xeon machine that would make a phenomonal domain controller, VPN server, and and box to test Exchange Server on (among many other things) that is now just sitting here because I have no drives for it. Does anyone know where to get some SCSI drives, cheap? I'm not even sure what kind of SCSI it is; I've almost never worked with that kind of stuff.
