Comments on: Travelling Business – Remote Desktop And My Last Day In Melbourne

By: Top 10 Reasons You Must Blog For Your Business In 2006 » Entrepreneur’s Journey - by Yaro Starak

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:27:20 +0000

[...] In January this year I made it one of my new year’s resolutions to proactively build my network and ever since I’ve had many people from all over the world email me to say hello. I’ve already met a few people in person on my recent trip to Melbourne and I expect later in the year on more travels to meet other people. [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:23:25 +0000

Well, fair enough.

So I guess remote desktop access doesn’t work if your computer uses dynamic IPs?

By: Small Business Branding

Small Business Branding — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:37:32 +0000

Darren’s quite right. This is the same argument I always give people regarding using a credit card online to pay for something. You are more likely to have your wallet or card stolen in real life than have your number stolen while using it online.

This is also a test post to make sure the comments subscription is working in WordPress 2.0 (I just upgraded).

Yaro

By: Chance

Chance — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:32:08 +0000

Remote Desktop is fairly secure- it uses high-grade encryption between the two computers.

We give everyone at my office access to Remote Desktop- I can’t imagine life without it.

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:14:29 +0000

Tim, the security issues are not really worth being worried about. Anyone trying to break in needs your IP address, your username and your password. As long as you don’t use stupidly simple passwords, they’re not going to get in. It’s much more likely that someone would physically break into your house while you’re away, and steal the whole computer!

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:04:21 +0000

Yes I’m sure there are some security issues with remote access. Nothing is ever 100% safe online. I wouldn’t recommend remote desktop for anyone paranoid about that sort of thing. For myself, I’ll take the risk. I feel the same about virus protection. I’ve been online for 8 years and I feel as long as you are smart with your web habits you don’t even need virus protection or email scanning…but that’s me. Maybe I’m too trusting.

I’ve used IMAP mail before and it’s good, however nothing beats having access to your entire computer exactly how it is. All your files, settings and information available anywhere you go.

By: Javier Cabrera (ClearYourMind)

Javier Cabrera (ClearYourMind) — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:39:21 +0000

hey Yaro, if you only want to check your emails, why you don’t use an IMAP server?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP

“IMAP allows users to access new messages instantly on their computers, since the mail is stored on the network.”

So the only thing you will really need its your wi-fi connection, your emails will be stored online and you can check them out in your laptop (buy a MacBook Pro!) on the go!

Good to heard from you fellow, keep going!

Javier Cabrera

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:57:30 +0000

Wouldn’t there be possible security issues by allowing access to your desktop over the net?

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:58:31 +0000

Next time, stop off in Sydney for a while

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:56:15 +0000

Yaro, it was great to meet up. You gave me some good ideas and have helped motivate me to working at this full-time.

Keep in touch.

By: PlusOne Marketing

PlusOne Marketing — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:55:05 +0000

remote desktop …hmmm… how do you manage such things as the need to shut you desktop down during summer thunderstorms?

Generally most of us have not invested in the harware required for the level of protection needed from power surges, the big damager – brownouts, and even stuff coming down the phone line. I know in summer I often have to shut down our network often for periods of 1-5 hours due to late afternoon, early evening storms.

Other than that – sounds like a neat idea!

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:39:20 +0000

I use remote desktop everyday from work to home. Hell, I’m using it right now. I also use it heavily when I go away, especially when I’m at my parents’ house in the country.

I’m also going to be playing with VNC very shortly given my recent undertaking to change my primary machine to Linux.

Glad you enjoyed Melbourne, Yaro. I’ll send you an email, I’d love to get together with you for coffee or something just to chat before you head overseas.

By: Nathan Waters

Nathan Waters — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:46:01 +0000

VNC is another great tool for remote desktop stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNC