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.
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.
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.
Very annoying.
At the end of the week my new computer arrived, so on Monday I can do the computer setup stuff all over again. Fun.