If you’re like me and have more than one machine to worry about, you’ve no doubt tried to remotely access one from the other.  There are times when you just can keep getting up to go over to the other machine just to enter some command or see how something’s running.  Then there are times when one machine is in a colocation closet in San Francisco, and you’re living in, say, Japan, like I was.  Or maybe your mom can’t get the 12:00 to stop blinking on her VCR (and she still has a VCR), and now she’d like you to figure out why “the Internet is broken.” (continue reading…)