"RogerN" wrote:

Say, aren't you looking for an underemployed PLC ladder logic type a guy?
maybe there's a marriage made in RCM about to happen.

Karl

I was thinking about something on that line. At work we have Siemens (among
others) controls and have Siemens form Germany to go online with our
equipment for programming. I'm not sure of all the networking details but
Tom could probably set up a PC that I, or anyone he wanted, could VPN into
and program his equipment. He would need someone that could wire switches
and coils but once that was done the program could be downloaded,
troubleshot, and improved all by VPN (We use UltraVNC, free and works
great).


If you use cygwin to implement a ssh server, putty to tunnel with, you can then use a *VNC
to get a secure connection to a remote windows desktop. This is an all Windows example.

Until they changed the admin pw at work, I had a neat way to get back to my pc at home
using their copy of RealVNC with a tunnel using Putty on my usb drive. Oh well, it was
sweet while it worked.

Wes
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