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I have an ear infection. I hate these bloody things. I was in the ICU for one once, swelled the entire side of my head, so I can't really take them lightly. They can hurt so bad you start seriously considering relieving the pressure with a power drill; not good.
So, while I still feel well enough to bitch and wait for the doc's to open, I'm VPN'd into work doing the crap that needs doing, that I won't get paid for. My process of work at home struck me as a truly strange little bit on computer tech, so I thought I'd share.
We use RSA SecurID for VPN. This means I have this odd little "fob" with numbers that blink on it. The number changes every minute and the thing has an internal ticker to make sure. You can't change the battery, after three years it runs out of valid numbers and you throw it out.
To get to work, I need to VPN in, using the special secret secure software and my id and pin and six digit fob number, that changes by the minute. Problem is, being "in" and being functional are different things. Just because you can see a network doesn't mean it wants to talk to you. Also, being "in" often means your local settings are kicked out for things like name resolution; I find this annoying.
Here's the process I use. I have a custom configured machine in VMWare that can talk to work. I load up VMWare and run that client. Once I get in the domain doesn't want to talk to me. There are a number of ways around this, but mine is to remote into a machine on the network that's already known.
So, from my machine, I run a virtual machine, the runs a VPN session, so I can log into a different machine, which, btw, is also a virtual machine on another box. I've toyed with the idea of running a virtual machine in that, but I fear it might create a virtual black hole.
So, while I still feel well enough to bitch and wait for the doc's to open, I'm VPN'd into work doing the crap that needs doing, that I won't get paid for. My process of work at home struck me as a truly strange little bit on computer tech, so I thought I'd share.
We use RSA SecurID for VPN. This means I have this odd little "fob" with numbers that blink on it. The number changes every minute and the thing has an internal ticker to make sure. You can't change the battery, after three years it runs out of valid numbers and you throw it out.
To get to work, I need to VPN in, using the special secret secure software and my id and pin and six digit fob number, that changes by the minute. Problem is, being "in" and being functional are different things. Just because you can see a network doesn't mean it wants to talk to you. Also, being "in" often means your local settings are kicked out for things like name resolution; I find this annoying.
Here's the process I use. I have a custom configured machine in VMWare that can talk to work. I load up VMWare and run that client. Once I get in the domain doesn't want to talk to me. There are a number of ways around this, but mine is to remote into a machine on the network that's already known.
So, from my machine, I run a virtual machine, the runs a VPN session, so I can log into a different machine, which, btw, is also a virtual machine on another box. I've toyed with the idea of running a virtual machine in that, but I fear it might create a virtual black hole.