Monday, October 20, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. The bus didn't show up today, so I walked nearly the whole way to work. Continued work on the job postings form. We're trying to streamline our process for having employers submit job postings to our students. Right now we accept plain text messages in email and our student affairs assistant manually reformats the message into an email which is distributed to the students. Web team meeting with Susie and Eric D: BTS, blogging. Continued work on the job postings form. Dinner at home with Patrick: vegetarian pizza, chinese chicken salad. Have been investigating how to set up VPN or remote desktop at home so that I can log in to my home computer from work. Was almost going to use Hamachi, but the dealbreaker for me was that their OS X version is from 2006—that's so 2 years ago! And there's no GUI support—you have to use the unofficial, still-beta HamachiX for a pretty interface. Tried Tunnelblick, but couldn't figure out how to install and configure it. It wasn't clear to me whether I needed Tunnelblick and OpenVPN or just Tunnelblick. No DMG for OpenVPN and all the instructions I found on the web were old, therefore untrustworthy. Tried Viscosity but couldn't figure out how to configure it—no quick start guide and no user manual. Gave up for now. Worked a bit toward setting up sweetcron, realized I need to put the head on my Mac Mini so that I can reconfigure Chicken of the VNC (or something) so that I can see what's happening over there. No time right now. To bed earlyish.