I am back at work again. It was a busy week in many ways. I went into the office – a room in a suite of accountants – on Monday without being certain that I had an office. I had a verbal agreement but no lease. It turns out that I did, in fact, have an office, but no lease, just a handshake. Fine with me. I paid a month’s rent ($350) and settled in to try to start working remotely.<\/p>\n
Getting connected to the Oracle VPN was easy once I used the right software (which was NOT the software recommended by Oracle IT). Getting into the Windows servers was easy, so long as I logged in as a generic user rather than myself (more on that in a minute). Getting into the Linux servers was a little harder as I had to download another piece of software. But I got that figured out by late Tuesday.<\/p>\n
I was able to use the generic accounts to do some useful work, but the inability to log in as myself became an increasingly more serious problem as the week progressed. I got an IT guy in Cambridge to look at the problem and he determined that it was a password synchronization issue that had to be solved at the Oracle end. So Oracle IT is on it now, but the week ended without me being able to be myself.<\/p>\n
Very annoying.<\/p>\n
At the end of the week my new computer arrived, so on Monday I can do the computer setup stuff all over again. Fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am back at work again. It was a busy week in many ways. I went into the office – a room in a suite of accountants – on Monday without being certain that I had an office. I had a verbal agreement but no lease. It turns out that I did, in fact, have … Continue reading