That's Less Annoying

[billroper]

I unburied the Windows 7 laptop that I have for work and hardwired it into the VPN, since I have two ports available and only one other machine that I use frequently for work. It came up properly on the network, so I just have to check later and make sure that the machine that I plugged into the untrusted port is the one that I intended to. :)

I spent a good bit of time (and a small amount of money) getting a pair of display port to VGA adapters for the laptop so that I could put it in the docking station and run it with dual monitors through my KVM switch. After a bit of configuration fun, I managed to get that to work.

Now the interesting thing is that -- supposedly! -- if I use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to a VM where I'm working, I should be able to have dual monitors on the remote machine, which would make it much more usable. So I figured I'd try it.

And I got two black screens the first three times that I connected.

On the fourth time, it worked.

I have no idea why. :)

Comments

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

Yesterday, my dad was trying to fix my mom's computer which just quit working. After several attempts at recovering the system various ways, it crashed, rebooted and came up just fine.

It must be going around.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you finally made the correct sacrifices to the technology gods.