sad geek couple
For one evening anyway:
Becky has to do some playcentre work, and I have to do some work work: she with the iBook on wireless and I with my little Dell Latitude 410 (it’s not as bad as I thought it was going to be) hooked up via a VPN through to the corporate LAN.
We’re sitting at the kitchen table in a companionable silence, clicking and tapping away on our respective machines.
I hear a “woosh” as Becky sends an email. “Could you print that out for me please”, she asks.
“Sure”, I say. The email arrives in my inbox; I open and read the attachment and hit the print button.
In a darkened floor of an office block downtown, kilometres from here, a printer whirrs into life and spits out two pieces of paper, ready for me to pick up when I arrive at work in the morning.
Brena
1 February 2006, 06:58 #
Not sad. Brilliant!
I say this as we do VPN too…
noizy
1 February 2006, 07:59 #
aahhhaahaha!
Llew
1 February 2006, 11:25 #
At least it wasn’t porn you were surfing for & printing while connected to the corporate network (yes, some (stupid) guy here did that on his day off…).
Excellent stir when a (female) manager came & picked up her legitimate printing…
Alan
1 February 2006, 13:30 #
Llew: that does take the cake. What a muppet!
Ben
1 February 2006, 22:16 #
Sometimes Dee uses Messenger to ask me if I want to watcha movie.
Patrick
2 February 2006, 00:08 #
I have in the past VPN’d to home from Auckland and printed things.
On occasion by accident (as my default printer was, of course, the home one), but the first time I did it entirely on purpose. Totally freaked out the flatmate who was there :)
These days I let Bonjour take care of setting up printers at home (and I think it does the printer at work too, it’s handily on the same subnet)
Llew
2 February 2006, 16:21 #
Yes, the identity of the culprit came out surprisingly quickly…
Thing was, he’d “work” from home quite a lot. His output was scrutinised closely after that.