Sorry to interrupt the list, but...

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007, James McDonald wrote:
>Tim Wunder wrote:
>> ssh in to do little upgrades? Heck, I tunnel my whole desktop over ssh using 
>> FreeNX :)
>>
>> Couldn't test k3b becasue I wasn't local to the machine to put a blank CD in 
>> the cd drive ;)
>>
>> Tim
>>   
>Today I had a user with a corrupt pdf. Had to ssh to home open up the 
>openvpn tunnel back to work. Start vncserver . VNC from work back to my 
>workstation. Email myself the pdf at home open it in xpdf and save it as 
>ps, use ps2pdf to convert it back to pdf and then send it back to work 
>so the user could open it in acroread.
>
>Sometime I wish I had a linux workstation at work...

Sounds like the typical 3 bank shot to me :-).

About ten years ago I was doing a consulting gig on-site in the San Jose
area, and had written up notes and a report in my normal word processing
program (vi and groff), but they couldn't figure out how to print the
PostScript(tm) output on their local printers (which I had created via an
ssh connection back to Mercer Island).  I ended up using HylaFax to fax it
to them which came out on the fax machine beside the desk where I was
working (or is that only a two thousand mile two bank shot).

Bill
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