Of manchildren and VPNs
Dec. 1st, 2018 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coolohohSo someone commented on my SF post about last week's Shippo jweb... Ya know where Aiba posted a super mature shot of himself in the lift, Then a photo of himself hold a gigantic jinenjyou?
Manchild.
What an apt word.
I too am working for a manchild.
And I'm a womanchild too.
Hahahaha.
I'm never ever gonna grow up.
Though well, I do change. And you could say that I'm more grown up now. But I'm forever gonna be Wild at Heart. Gosh. The Arashi puns are strong in this post eh?
Like I've evolved quite a bit during my previous job. Though not really/always in a good way. But now... This job. Arghs. I'm just so happy I can't...
So for a couple of days I've trying to get the remote desktop connection working. As well as the VPN, so that I can remote in from my phone and from my mac. Like, ya know, from the comfort of my own home. In my PJ glory and all. FINALLY got it to freaking work. First was that I got the IP address of my workstation wrong. So while I could remote into the microscope 'puters, from my own workstation, I couldn't do the opposite. (Why would I need to do that you ask? I just did it yesterday. Because for some unknown reason the scope 'puters ain't no got msoft suite on 'em. So to check some data that's on excel, you could either import that stuff to gdocs - which we did try, but was quite cumbersome with every change we wanted to make after downloading the new doc... Like you have to re-dl each time... Or you could remote in to a 'puter with msoft office. Like my workstation. So yup, got that set up and ready yesterday.)
Then... The next thing is to get the VPN working so that I can connect from my phone and elsewhere. Turns out that the email from my friend on like my second day of work didn't apply to me cos my institute was using a diff VPN from the 'rest of the world'. So that took me a while to figure out. Got the correct VPN website from my colleague. Thankfully they have an iOS app, and managed to get that to work. And while I was stuck on the stupid train/shuttle bus last night/today (another long story)... I managed to check my experiment results. Even funnier was that I had to get off at my workplace mrt station and walk like 1/4 (or 1/3?) of the way to my office to change to the shuttle bus. LOL. I was so high. (Womanchild remember?) Like hyper. Totally. Adrenaline rush! For a while I contemplated going to the office to change sample so that I can start another run over the weekend. but then I realised that I probably need to prepare some new reagents too so forget it. 🤣🤣🤣
Then... Last step. Getting the VPN working on my mac. Had to sign up on the VPN service and have them send me a link to my work email so that I can download the software. Complicated sh!t. Then! They complained that my mac has no anti-virus software and thus could only have limited connectivity. That means, no remoting in. Arghs. Great. What was that anti-virus software that I uninstalled many moons ago? I can't remember. Ok. Google to the rescue. Anti virus software for mac. Downloaded the top two. Oh right. I was using Avast. Tried installing it. Together with the 2nd most recommended anti virus. It hanged halfway... But somehow when I close and tried installing again, Avast is already there. Tried VPN. Nope, still doesn't work. Tried restarting my comp and at which point it was maybe 3:30am so I went to bed.
Story continues this morning after comp restarts. VPN is still limited connectivity. Confirmed that the remote desktop doesn't work on limited connectivity. I can only access the intranet websites to do stuff like apply for leave. Arghs. Time to install that other anti virus software and try again. Amazingly, it worked this time. Phew! Cos otherwise I would be in a bind. The VPN thing kinda feels like an abandoned service to me? Idk. But the email add on the info page about why I'm only getting limited activity has been repurposed and is no longer monitored. LOL.So I wouldn't even know who to email about the anti virus software. LOL.
Anyway. It finally works. I can remote in to check on my scopes and to use my work stations. Which I just did to transfer my images to my own folder. And to update my lab notebook a tiny bit. So fun. So freaking fun. I'm so amused. This brings the term 'work from home' to a whole new level now. Gosh. I'm so crazy.... Hahaha!
Ah yes. What was I doing last night! Eating ramen and just chilling out with viereedom! That was fun, to hang out with another Arashi fan from Indonesia... It's been a while since we last met... A year or two? Before I changed jobs and got all depressed. Yeah.
Alright. I've got other stuff to do this weekend. KOed most of the nights this week without getting anything done so I have A LOT to catch up on now...
Till next time!
Manchild.
What an apt word.
I too am working for a manchild.
And I'm a womanchild too.
Hahahaha.
I'm never ever gonna grow up.
Though well, I do change. And you could say that I'm more grown up now. But I'm forever gonna be Wild at Heart. Gosh. The Arashi puns are strong in this post eh?
Like I've evolved quite a bit during my previous job. Though not really/always in a good way. But now... This job. Arghs. I'm just so happy I can't...
So for a couple of days I've trying to get the remote desktop connection working. As well as the VPN, so that I can remote in from my phone and from my mac. Like, ya know, from the comfort of my own home. In my PJ glory and all. FINALLY got it to freaking work. First was that I got the IP address of my workstation wrong. So while I could remote into the microscope 'puters, from my own workstation, I couldn't do the opposite. (Why would I need to do that you ask? I just did it yesterday. Because for some unknown reason the scope 'puters ain't no got msoft suite on 'em. So to check some data that's on excel, you could either import that stuff to gdocs - which we did try, but was quite cumbersome with every change we wanted to make after downloading the new doc... Like you have to re-dl each time... Or you could remote in to a 'puter with msoft office. Like my workstation. So yup, got that set up and ready yesterday.)
Then... The next thing is to get the VPN working so that I can connect from my phone and elsewhere. Turns out that the email from my friend on like my second day of work didn't apply to me cos my institute was using a diff VPN from the 'rest of the world'. So that took me a while to figure out. Got the correct VPN website from my colleague. Thankfully they have an iOS app, and managed to get that to work. And while I was stuck on the stupid train/shuttle bus last night/today (another long story)... I managed to check my experiment results. Even funnier was that I had to get off at my workplace mrt station and walk like 1/4 (or 1/3?) of the way to my office to change to the shuttle bus. LOL. I was so high. (Womanchild remember?) Like hyper. Totally. Adrenaline rush! For a while I contemplated going to the office to change sample so that I can start another run over the weekend. but then I realised that I probably need to prepare some new reagents too so forget it. 🤣🤣🤣
Then... Last step. Getting the VPN working on my mac. Had to sign up on the VPN service and have them send me a link to my work email so that I can download the software. Complicated sh!t. Then! They complained that my mac has no anti-virus software and thus could only have limited connectivity. That means, no remoting in. Arghs. Great. What was that anti-virus software that I uninstalled many moons ago? I can't remember. Ok. Google to the rescue. Anti virus software for mac. Downloaded the top two. Oh right. I was using Avast. Tried installing it. Together with the 2nd most recommended anti virus. It hanged halfway... But somehow when I close and tried installing again, Avast is already there. Tried VPN. Nope, still doesn't work. Tried restarting my comp and at which point it was maybe 3:30am so I went to bed.
Story continues this morning after comp restarts. VPN is still limited connectivity. Confirmed that the remote desktop doesn't work on limited connectivity. I can only access the intranet websites to do stuff like apply for leave. Arghs. Time to install that other anti virus software and try again. Amazingly, it worked this time. Phew! Cos otherwise I would be in a bind. The VPN thing kinda feels like an abandoned service to me? Idk. But the email add on the info page about why I'm only getting limited activity has been repurposed and is no longer monitored. LOL.So I wouldn't even know who to email about the anti virus software. LOL.
Anyway. It finally works. I can remote in to check on my scopes and to use my work stations. Which I just did to transfer my images to my own folder. And to update my lab notebook a tiny bit. So fun. So freaking fun. I'm so amused. This brings the term 'work from home' to a whole new level now. Gosh. I'm so crazy.... Hahaha!
Ah yes. What was I doing last night! Eating ramen and just chilling out with viereedom! That was fun, to hang out with another Arashi fan from Indonesia... It's been a while since we last met... A year or two? Before I changed jobs and got all depressed. Yeah.
Alright. I've got other stuff to do this weekend. KOed most of the nights this week without getting anything done so I have A LOT to catch up on now...
Till next time!
