Sometimes, as a geek, I forget that other people don’t do things the same way I do.. friend of mine was mentioning how annoyed they were that they weren’t at home to reset something on their computer for a few days. The solution to this problem is somehting I do anyway, but figured I’d mention some of the standard things here for whoever was reading and wanted some tech inspiration.
* I have a version of VNC installed on all of my systems. This allows me to remote control any of the systems. Sometimes I’m just too lazy to grab the laptop in the other room and it’s handy to VNC to it. Other times I can be in Australia or UK and connect in to do whatever I need.
* I have 2 VPNs installed on my machines. One connects to the hamachi network and allows me to connect to most of my machines regardless if a machine of mine is behind a router at a friend’s house or on a normal ‘net connection. The other VPN I have installed goes to my server. Anytime I need to visit an odd site, want an extra step of security when on an odd network, or need a different route to get to a site I login to the alternate VPN and it solves a lot of problems.
* Have a shell box handy and configured with goodies. You never know when you need an end-point for a VPN, a place to have mail w/fun filtering, ability to try out toys, have a shoutcast relay or any number of other things.
* Dynamic DNS - always handy to have some form of this so you can find your machines when you leave them on a remote network.. although that alternate VPN util mentioned above is handy for that too.
May post more later, but yah.. anyway.. was overdue for a blog post so there it was.
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This entry was posted by Wagahai on Thursday, March 2nd, 2006, at 1:14 am, and was filed in Other.
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