The UK is completely under snow. What tips can help programmers who don't usually work from home survive the next few days.

The UK is completely under snow. What tips can help programmers who don't usually work from home survive the next few days.???

I can think of remote desktop to your work desktop? What other things will make our days easier?

From stackoverflow

• Hamachi would be my choice

  Ric Tokyo : @Zack: thnks :) for the link fix hehe

• Go out and completely empty the shelves of all the bread and milk...Not programming related but will certainly happen none the less.

  Paul Dixon : Are you a hedgehog by any chance? :)

  annakata : lol @ paul dixon :P

  Michael Prewecki : All but the best in the world part...

• If you can't remote desktop AND you need to work - ring you boss and get him to OK you to spend the time learning something new.

  Ric Tokyo : ring your boss to say the phone line is down!

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  [gibberish spam type stuff removed]

  Ed Guiness : +1 for snowman, -1 for gibberish

  annakata : I'd have +1'd for the pic if it wasn't for the rest of it. Shame.

• Most households have food supplies that should last a couple of days. If your water is cut off you can actually drink the water that's in the water reservoir on your toilet.

  If you need to keep looters away, you can probably just throw a bucket of water in front of your doors and windows, which will make them fall over and hit their head.

  When the premises are secure, I'll suggest the following:

  SSH to a windows pc:

  ssh -L 3389:yourhostnameattheoffice:3389 yourlogin-atwork@your-ssh-server-at-work.com

  At home you run "mstsc localhost" on windows or "rdesktop localhost" on mac/linux.

  If you don't have a SSH sever or firewall opening, and all of your it people are also snowed in you can use the McGyver version: Install openssh server at home, open port 22 in home firewall.

  From your work pc, have someone do ssh -R 3389:localhost:3389 your-home-login@your-home-host.dyndns.org

  At home you do mstsc localhost or rdesktop localhost as before.

  All of these assume that you do not have rdesktop service running on your home computer. If so, you'll have to choose a different port number.

  Cheers from Oslo with -13 degrees C and lots of snow.

  Paul Dixon : Well *that's* certainly cheered me up as I watch the snow pile up outside!

  annakata : This is the UK, not scandinavia or canada: mountains and molehills spring to mind :P