This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Ruby Buzz
by Joey Gibson.
Original Post: VirtualPC Spanks The Monkey's Hiney
Feed Title: Joey Gibson's Blog
Feed URL: http://www.jobkabob.com/index.html
Feed Description: Thoughts, musings, ramblings and rants on Java, Ruby, Python, obscure languages, politics and other exciting topics.
Today I was working from home when my friend got peeved that I kept
dropping off of IM to VPN in to the office, because the Nortel VPN client shuts down
all non-VPN network routes on your computer while you are connected. It's annoying, but what
are you going to do? The answer is VirtualPC,
formerly from Connectix,
now from Microsoft. I installed
the 45 day trial version, loaded Windows98 (blech!) on to it, then the
VPN client, Microsoft LookOut and GAIM. Now I can fire up the
virtual PC and stay connected to the office all day through the VPN
with access to our Exchange server and the Jabber server that I maintain for
the team. This is seriously cool since it leaves me free to get to the
Internet while connected to the VPN, which I couldn't do before. I
don't know how much Microsoft is going to charge for it, but whatever it
is, I'm willing to pay it. This is going to make my life a whole lot
easier.
But wait! There's more! At this precise moment I am installing Red Hat Linux
9 on another virtual machine. This will save me from needing to
buy another computer just for Linux testing of my JRuby work.
Previous Topic
