Update, update
Got the lappy's hardware drivers installed and got it on the wireless LAN. Installing apps and whatnot. Also scanning the crap out of it in case it picked up anything during its update frenzy. Probably not, as it was behind a fairly solid security gateway box at the time, but it never hurts to be sure.
At some point I'm going to have to move my external domain mailservers to a hosted solution to make it easier to use the lappy as a mail client when out and about. I could leave it on my own servers (as I have it now), but a hosted solution would _theoretically_ have better uptime, access, and bandwidth than my home-based office. Not to mention a fixed IP, so I'd have less hassle with being automatically mailbounced by subscribers to antispam rulesets.
It shouldn't be too hard. One of the domains already has an MX interface on Google which is good for getting around spamblocking. I'd probably just switch to downloading mail without deleting, and using a web interface on all the machines for sending (and recording) anything important. That way, there wouldn't be any loss of (email) continuity if anything happened to the home-office servers. Coupling that with hosted document storage for standard forms, low-key business maintenance information, and temporary scans/photos of paper docs, and I'd be business-mobile from anywhere I could access a browser, even if home base burnt to the ground in a flaming Godzilla attack.
At some point I'm going to have to move my external domain mailservers to a hosted solution to make it easier to use the lappy as a mail client when out and about. I could leave it on my own servers (as I have it now), but a hosted solution would _theoretically_ have better uptime, access, and bandwidth than my home-based office. Not to mention a fixed IP, so I'd have less hassle with being automatically mailbounced by subscribers to antispam rulesets.
It shouldn't be too hard. One of the domains already has an MX interface on Google which is good for getting around spamblocking. I'd probably just switch to downloading mail without deleting, and using a web interface on all the machines for sending (and recording) anything important. That way, there wouldn't be any loss of (email) continuity if anything happened to the home-office servers. Coupling that with hosted document storage for standard forms, low-key business maintenance information, and temporary scans/photos of paper docs, and I'd be business-mobile from anywhere I could access a browser, even if home base burnt to the ground in a flaming Godzilla attack.