Blocked, Again

One of side projects over the last few months has been to try and gain remote access to my home computer network from behind my school district's firewall. This was complicated by the use of a wireless router at the house which required a substantial amount of investigation in how to get through it and to my computer's IP.

And I did it.

Last night I finally found the final missing piece of the remote access puzzle and was able to take control of my other computer through my router. All was good and happy in the kingdom of Geekistan.

Until today when I actually go to test it out in real world conditions. And by real world conditions I mean my own particular working environment which includes a rather robust firewall and an active site filter.

One of which has broken the connection I so laboriously developed and created. I know it still works because I'm at my site where I know there's unsecured wifi on the corner of the campus and I checked it from there and had zero problems in remoting in.

So yeah, several hurdles cleared but a few more left to go.

Something Somewhere Ain't Right

I've been having a devil of a time getting my posts to post properly lately. The connection times out and I have to redo it again and again until it finally decides to play nicely. Posts I wrote and tried to put up this morning didn't go live until tonight when I was able to babysit them for twenty minutes or so.

I don't think its Blogger (this time) so the culprit is most likely my hosting provider but I just don't have the energy to deal with a customer service call tonight. I barely have enough left in the tank to hope it works better tomorrow.

Oh and the picture? I just posted it with this one because I like it alot.

'Bout Friggin' Time

You know the best part about paying for something? Aside from it working properly, I mean?

Being able to legitimately complain when they cheese the whole service up. Like, oh I don't know, my hosting service.

I couldn't post to IP this morning and then realized I couldn't get to the website at all, not even through a proxy server. Hard to tell if anyone else noticed.

Which meant that it wasn't on my end. So I go to my service company and try to find a status page to find out what's going on. They do not appear to have one so I head on over to the live support forum and sign up to chat with someone.

And he tells me that they are having trouble, my site will be back up in an hour. That was, oh, almost 12 hours ago. I bet they've had a long day over there at EHostPros tech support.

Anyway, we're back, for now. Which is good because I've got stuff to complain about! Not the weather though, wowee what a nice day it was here!