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12:10 PM - 01/18/2010

The topic: Computers.  Feh.

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So, Saturday I think “gee, maybe I’ll try setting up the remote desktop” function.  Because I get tired of going over to Brian’s computer to fix the damned weather station reading.  For some reason, it adds rain at nine in the morning and again around four-thirty in the afternoon.  According to my weather station, we’d gotten over thirteen inches of rain since the middle of last month. Very annoying.

So, I upgraded the software, hoping that would fix it (it didn’t, we got .34 inches of rain at 4:40 yesterday afternoon). So, late Saturday I started with the desktop remote set up. 

Couldn’t get it to work.  I never “saw” the other computers, couldn’t connect. Very, very disappointing

And then I couldn’t see the live cameras.  I was very, very irritated.  I didn’t know if it was my virus software (it has some sort of remote, too and I tried setting that up).  Or what it was.  Turns out it was the java update.  It wasn’t running with the new java, but eventually it did. There’s a popup, saying “this isn’t secure java, are you sure you want to run it?” Yeah, I’m sure. It’s just a word scroller and streaming video.  My router has a great firewall and only the ports the cameras run on are open. So, yeah.

But I just hate it when something else happens, not at all related to what I’m working on, when I’m messing with programs.  Because what I’m working on shouldn’t be affecting what’s seems to be affected. 

Anyway, I gave up on the remote desktop that comes with Windows and went with the freebie at LogMeIn.I don’t need the printer or chat or any of those things. And now, when we’re away from home and I’ve got the laptop and the catcam quits running, I can get it running again.

And it was a whole lot easier to set up and get running than that damned Windows remote desktop.


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