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A blog for DevSource.com.

This blog was originally part of the blogs.ziffdavis.com site from May 2005 through June 2007 when the blog was moved to the Movable Type blog engine and hosted at blog.devsource.com/devlife.
The original blog was eventually shut down and I was given the posts so that I could host them on my own site.


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Multi-Tasking Bonanza - Working on 5 PCs at once without leaving my chair

It just occurred to me that I am literally working on four computers at the same time.

I am sitting in my kitchen with my laptop preparing final touches for my LINQ to SQL for Web Apps talk tonight at Vermont.NET. The PowerPoint is on the laptop. From the laptop, I am running a VPC of WinXP that has the Orcas CTP installed. That's wehre I'm doing all of my demos. Since the laptop has only 1.5 GB RAM, and the VPC only gets about 1GB of that, I don't want to run the PowerPoint from the VPC.

So I call that two.

Then I am RDP-ing into my main computer downstairs. That's where all of my email (and oh so much more lives). So I am doing email on computer #3.

From computer #3, I am then RDP-ing to computer #4 which is where all of my Visual Studio 2005 development lives. A client emailed with a quick request, so I had to pop over to there as well.

This does not include the VPN session I did from Computer #3 to a client computer in New York State this morning. I guess that would make five!

The best part is that now that my old dogs are not so handy at going up and down the stairs (my office is downstairs) I get to hang out with them today while I'm working.

posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 1:10 PM