Remote Connectivity

I had kind of a unique opportunity today to kind of put my configuration to it's first serious use. There's a blizzard here in Iowa, and I live 40 miles away from work, so I left work early to beat the storm, and when I got home, wanted to log in remotely to do some work from home.

So, I fired up my virtual XP machine, VPN'd in to the corp network, RDP'd into my desk at work and started going to town. Actually I wish it was as smooth as all that, there were a few little hiccups, but they were minor indeed and I was able to iron them out with minimal difficulty.

It was a fair bit slower than I wanted it to be, especially based on my Mac, but there could have been a number of reasons for that including the fact that I was connected to my SonicWALL via wireless G (there are plans eventually to get back into a wireless N router), I might not have had enough RAM allocated for the VM, the corp network could have been slow, and the machine I was RDP'ing into I know is not going to win any races. But given the complexity of the connection, I was very happy with the way that it worked, and that I was actually able to do what I wanted it to do. That probably seems like a very small thing to many who may read this, but it made me smile.