Someday when computers are animatronic robot pals, all you’ll need to say to them is “LogMeIn, Hamachi.” Well, provided your robopal is named Hamachi.
December 18, 2008
Good evening. Right now, I’m writing to you from my apartment at an undisclosed location in Carrboro, North Carolina. I won’t tell you where I am exactly, but how would you imagine the place? Do you picture half-empties strewn about, a Scarface poster, Twizzlers, a bowl of cereal left in the bathtub, an untouched copy of Ulysses, a fridge stocked with any possible drink that women may want? (You’ll need to search YouTube for that last one on your own.) That is so far off the mark, I’m a bit insulted. I don’t own a Scarface poster.
The reason I’m writing from home is that I’m testing out the free Virtual Private Network app, LogMeIn Hamachi. Designed to allow users to instantly access remote network resources, Hamachi takes only a short amount of time to set up and guarantees that you’ll have to perform ZERO configuration to get it to work. I set up Hamachi on my laptop at work, and then I raced home to set it up on my home computer.
All in all, Hamachi delivers a decent, reliable VPN experience. I only experienced one frustrating thing while I was getting acquainted with it. You are asked to log in to their “test” network as part of their product tutorial, but I must’ve been trying at the internet’s rush hour because it was at max capacity. It took me a long time, re-trying periodically, but I eventually logged in. But until I was able to do so I couldn’t advance any further through the tutorial, and that was annoying because I’m not the VPN master, and I actually wanted to finish the tutorial.
How will it be useful to you? Do you have a computer in your classroom and at home? And a laptop? Connect all of them. The days of files being trapped in just one computer are swiftly coming to an end. Hmm… “The Days of Files Being Trapped in One Computer Are Over.” That’s a good tag line. I think I’ll send that over to the team doing the marketing for Tron 2. -NICK YINGLING
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