Half connected

[redbird]

This temp job gives me Web access, but not my email (no telnet or ssh), and I'm feeling oddly detached. Not as bad as the point this morning, wrestling with Word, when I was thinking "I have no google, I have no rassef, I'm trapped inside my brain."

Word, by the way, fought us to a standstill by producing dishonest error messages, so we extracted the data and used Filemaker Pro to create labels. So now I'm putting them on envelopes, which I will then get to stuff and put postage on. Extremely modified rapture.

Comments

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Google for "web ssh gateway" (one of them is here (http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/Help/internet/ssh/web_gateway.html)).

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

If you get email access, could you email bubba.

This might not work for you

[webbob.livejournal.com]

but in a similar situation I might very well "https://mail.panix.com" and use Squirrel-brand webmail.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

If your email is accessible via POP or IMAP, then www.mail2web.com is your friend. It's even clever enough to figure out your mailserver from your email address (or so it claims, I've known my mail server so that wasn't a problem!)

And when work blocked that for a while, I discovered that www.endymion.com have a product called "Mailman" and if you follow the links through to the "live demo" then you can type in your mail server, user ID and password and read your email that way. I've done this for a couple of years now and never had any problems because of it.