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Long Distance Remote Control

The buddy I am currently staying with called me a nerd today because I was putting on a Firefox T-Shirt. Oh, little does he know, poor fellow.

I wonder what he had said if he knew that we just set up an OpenVPN server on our wireless router at home to be able to log in from a distance and program our dad’s satellite receiver? We call it the 6.500 kilometer remote control.



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5 Responses to “Long Distance Remote Control”

  1. 1
    Jean Pierre Says:
    June 6th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Yes, we are two geeks. And we’re proud of it! :-p

  2. 2
    Justin Dolske Says:
    June 6th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    6500km? Wow, that’s almost 1.3 million rods!

  3. 3
    Fred Says:
    June 6th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    Justin: For just one second, I looked up “rod” on urbandictionary to find out what that measure comes from… and of course I immediately regretted it ;) After that, wikipedia helped me out as usual.

    By the way: 6.500 km is also over 14 million cubits. I just thought you ought to know that.

  4. 4
    Jean Pierre Says:
    June 8th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    We should really get two of those:
    http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/6111/

    ;-)

  5. 5
    Fred Says:
    June 8th, 2008 at 9:11 am

    At least then my girlfriend’s claim of me wearing geeky shirts would have some tangible evidence :)

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