From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Doug Bryce"  wrote in message
news:3e3b163e.10564897{at}news.barkto.com...
> Comments inline this time.
>
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:25:07 -0000, "Adam Flinton"
>  wrote:
>
> >Here it's high winds + ice + snow etc. Your basic "Heavy
Atlantic Low"
> >combined with an airstream from Greenland/ the northern icecap
>
> Yuck.....your subject line was right ! 
>
> >
> >Walked the dog up on the moors because the noise of the trees swaying
> >worried me (e.g. we lost a large old apple tree in the orchard) too much
to
> >walk in the forest & the combo of snow on ice meant that at times the
wind
> >pushed be backwards as if I was skiing.
>
> That *is* nasty.   I think we've talked about this before, but my
> memory fails me (brain fart ).....are you actually up on the moors,
> or is it just a reasonable drive despite the weather?
>

Short drive long walk (but possible). Dalby Forest is closer & most of
the time the trees protect you from the elements 
> >It's why I love doing "wire work" (i.e. sit at home
& work via the net).
> >Saves all the either (a) driving to manchester airport > Arlanda
> >(Stockhom).......& back on a friday &/or driving
Scarborough  Leeds.
Just
> >sit in after dog walking at 7.30 & watch the snow
> >fall......horizontally......
>
> If it's horizontal, it ain't falling .

Sometimes going back up in swirls 


> I'd like to be able to work that way, too - but there are too many
> times that I need to be able to 'hands on' a machine that we don't
> want to have accessible from the net.   Mind you, I can get to my own
> machine at work from home....comes in awful handy when I get called
> after midnight because a job has failed .
>

I arrange it in advance but frankly I am just so glad to be able to login
to a server in vancouver or sweden  without driving to an
airport....passport...ticket....laptop....etc. Esp when my laptop is my
laptop wherever it is so going distance to login seems insane.

especially in this kinda weather. Wouldn't have been able to drive to leeds
& wouldn't have enjoyed the Stockhom-Manchester-Pennines-A64 route in the
current weather.

Even when abroad I get to my __home machines from work__ . You can
tunnel vnc through ssh (& just about any other port/service e.g IMAP)
& the rest is history  I can nearly always get ssh port out of
a client site as it is ssh & I am secure by nature.

It can be usefull coz with the windows vnc there is one  i.e.
"the" desktop i.e. of the person logged in & it allows for
semi-adult removal (time for homework) & for me to "help" my
wife make a netmeeting call to me....VNC needs an optional voice channel
 "Get off the machine & get to bed" from Sweden



>
> >..... I would then have to drive
> >over the pennines in a blizzard (not that fun).
>
> We came over here in '64 so you'll understand when I say that I have a
> *vague* recollection of a ride like that when we once went out for a
> Sunday drive and the weather decided to not co-operate.   Not fun.
>

Where are you?

Adam

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