So I was working on a slide-deck I have to have done for work on Monday, and I realized I should blog about the iPod Touch I just got — capsule summary: I like it; more later.
I started up my browser and logged into this site, then realized
- I was really just going to enter some text into the G5 box sitting beside me…
- but I was talking to a webserver that is running on it…
- that I found by looking up “mikew.ca” on the internet…
- by typing into Firefox…
- which is running in Windows 2000…
- which is running in a virtual image on my Mac laptop (using Parallels Desktop)…
- which is sitting on a shelf in my basement…
- so I’m talking to it (the laptop) via a VNC client…
- that’s running on my Vista gaming PC.
Amazingly, I’m getting perfectly reasonable performance out of this setup. [Ken, with reference to previous conversations we’ve had, I believe VNC running on Vista is faster than on XP.]
In case you’re wondering though, no, that’s not how I normally work. It was a side-effect of needing a VPN connection to IBM (which I only have on the laptop) to get some data for the slide-deck, plus accidentally running Firefox in Win2K (which I had going to read Notes mail).
Isn’t the journey always supposed to be more exciting than the destination. 😉