Okay, those of you without geekiness somewhere in you either won’t understand this, or just won’t find it amusing…
So, I’ve been trying to set up my work computer to allow me to access it remotely… not just files on it, but if I wanted to log in to it to see if an encode was happening correctly or to start a process so that I could come in and get right to work in the morning… There’s probably an easier way, but this was the way that made sense… so here’s what I did…
We use Citrix here at work… and I can access that at home – but I don’t even know what Citrix is accessing… It’s a some Windows XP login somewhere… my mail is setup on it and we have access to some proprietary work stuff from it, but I never use it because it’s not the Mac I work on and it has next to nothing I need… but I can install stuff on it (sorta). So I installed a VNC client. Now this Citrix login is on our local network, so instead of trying to find a way into our network and then onto my Mac, I just login to Citrix and then VNC into my Mac. Since VNC functionality is built into the OS of the Mac, I just had to find the right settings… Well, I finally had the time to sit and figure it out today… and then I tested it… on the Mac that I’ve been trying to remotely access.
Most people know what feedback is… but it can happen in audio AND video (point a video camera at a screen that is displaying the feed from said camera on some time… it’s trippy)… and as of today I learned, it can happen in the IT world as well. I was logged into a remote login that further logged in to control the computer I was on… SO I had a cascading wall of screen shots of 2 different desktops buried in each other. Every time I moved my mouse the first remote login told the second remote login to move the mouse… which was the same one I was physically moving… So it would move a quarter of an inch and then jump back to it’s original spot. It was definitely the most hilariously I’ve ever locked up my computer.
Anyway, that’s pretty much how my day has been going…
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