The month of October met with a week and a half of travel, far more than normal. A consluting trip to San Antonio and then a week at our fall conference in St. Louis. Before leaving I preped the laptop with mail and documents that I’d need and also setup VPNC. If you recall from previous posts I’m running Ubuntu on my v2000.

I thought I’d have to get one of our Cisco guys to download a copy of Cisco’s VPN Client but was glad when VPNC did the trick. It’s hard to believe how much useful software is out there when you start looking. I keep finding more and more every day so from a consumer’s perspective it’s great.

Wireless or wired from the hotel’s was no problem and when it came time to work at conference rdesktop was there to access the Terminal Server. I minded the HelpDesk for the week which did not get much activity but sometimes that can be a good thing. Typically the HelpDesk is where the problems come to and if they come to you face to face with documentation sometimes it’s not pretty. But that was not the case this year so I’d say we are doing some things better.