Occasionally I use this old Toshiba notebook to do some web surfing while relaxing on the couch. It's a bear though, cause while it has a 1 GHz P4 in it, it only has 128 MB of ram and a slow hard drive. By the time I run all the anti-virus and anti-spyware stuff I need to safely use a Windows box, it just crawls.
To make a long, geeky story short(er), I set up an old PC in the office. I run it headless (No monitor, keyboard or mouse) and I remote access it from the Macintosh, mostly to dump backups to. That right there is geeky enough for most people I know.
Now, mostly out of morbid curiosity, I decided to tunnel into the office PC from the laptop. That worked fine, so I fired up a web browser. So, to be clear, I'm using remote desktop to access a PC in the office and using Firefox on THAT PC instead of Firefox on THIS PC. Sadly and strangely, I am browsing much faster. I guess that the machine in there is more capable of doing the heavy lifting, and is just blasting pixels over here for me to look at. This will probably be the way I do it from now on.
Now suddenly I am wondering, if I throw an old copy of Photoshop for PC on that machine, can I suddenly do production work lying on the couch? This could result in a whole new level of laziness for me. Or would that be making my laziness productive... I dunno. The whole thing seems awful weird though.
(Honey, if you are reading this, all this tom-foolery could be stopped with a new Macbook.)
UPDATE: You Tube is unusable over the remote connection. Bummer.
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And that's enough for now.
Brian Norwood
Platypi Online: The Platypus Portal
3 comments:
ooooooooooh.....I bow down to the lazy that you have risen. If only I could be so lazy. I am also impressed by your geekdom.....muy impressive.
I am too stupid to read this post
One might argue the stupidity was in the poster.
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