All of my blogs finally got transferred over to the new Dano system - lost the template, but had a backup fortunately. Passed the 4,400 mark on Seti. Got stuck waiting for two trains in two days, once at Galetti by the DMV, and once at Kirman/Sutro. Becky got her 2-year-old portrait taken recently:



After using a VPN for a long time now, it's finally obvious to me that the reason so many companies are steering away from VPN usage is because they're so slow! No matter what anyone tells you, there's just no way a VPN can be fast. You're limited by Internet bandwidth, and until we all get fast ethernet (gigabit) or at least USB 2.0 internet speeds (480 mbps) at home, any goofy little 1.5 mbps network connection is just wwwwaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too slow. A better solution for most purposes is a Terminal Services session, Tight-VNC, Citrix Metaframe, etc., where only screenshot differences and mouseclicks are being transferred instead of actual files. Even these all seem a bit slow, but they're far faster than VPNs.