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[susandennis]

I shudda listened to davmoo more carefully the first time. I finally have Mom's VNC setup working fine. When he first told me about his experience with DynDNS.org, he said he used a little client called DynDNS Updater. There are about a bazzillion different clients on the DynDNS website and, for some reason, I picked another one. When I couldn't get it to work, I went back to David's original comment and read it carefully...

Downloaded the right client. Set it up on Mom's computer and, for once, the IP changed when I wanted it to and everything worked just like it should. Whew. And thank you, David!

My success with getting the Run icon to spawn the event window was shortlived. But I've decided to worry about that another day. However, I still can't get my photos to upload via email to buzznet. Very strange. I sent them an email but as a test, I did manually load one from this morning. I found this little tableau in the next block from my front door.

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[pinkrose70.livejournal.com]

Hi Susan,

Happy New Year!

I'm pretty sure that I saw this one picture on buzznet earlier today and I left you a short comment.

In case you didn't see it, I'll repeat it here..that picture just says it all!

Looks like a good time was had.

[susandennis]

Very interesting... I do not see your comment on buzznet. I'm really beginning to think my account is screwed up really.

[ruralrob.livejournal.com]

That is rather a brilliant and apt photo to post the day after new years eve.

[susandennis]

Thanks. I was pleasantly surprised at how it came out, myself. It's how my whole neighborhood looked and felt this morning.

[davmoo.livejournal.com]

When I made that original reply, I was also talking to someone on the phone at the same time. Had I not been doing two things at once, it would have occured to me to give you links to go with the software, not just a name. You can blame it on my mother :-)

[susandennis]

As a general rule, blaming a mother is always good. But, in this case, I'm afraid I can't. I went back to your comment intending to send you a note asking what client it was you were using and that's when I saw you had already told me and I just hadn't paid attention.

I just checked again and the IP has changed again and dyndns picked right up on it - I vnc'd with the domain name and got right in.

Thank you thank you! Really.

[davmoo.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome.

I learned about VNC and DynDNS and all that about the time I had to make the third hundred mile (one way) drive to my mother's to fix a problem with her computer. Now when she has a problem, she calls me from her cellphone to tell me she's online, and I open a bottle of beer and run a program from home to fix it. And it works equally well to show her how to do stuff. It can't get better than that :-)