TightVNC, UltraVNC, and dish soap

I need a way to take control from home of a computer at the office, so I went to Sourceforge and saw that they have two incarnations of VNC.  The most downloaded between them two is called TightVNC, so this is the one I tried first.

Once installed both on my laptop and on the office's machine, I made sure that it works.  I was really nicely surprised.  But then when I came back home and tried it, somehow TightVNC got confused with the target machine's screensaver password, gave me an error message, and I couldn't access it.  I was disappointed at this.

So today Saturday I went to the office again to try UltraVNC, and this one did the trick!!!  I don't know, perhaps more people download the other one because the other one runs on more platforms.  Ahhh, but I'm happy now.  Now next thing, is to figure out how to protect this connection.  I think I'll use OpenVPN, but I need to learn from scratch how to use it.

On other news, I ran out of dish soap at home so I went to the supermarket and got a big bottle of a different brand (but same manufacturer) than whatever I had before.  The first time I used it to wash, first thing I noticed was the bottle cap is looser than before, and second the soap is runnier.  As a result of this, even if you squirt the bottle very gently, you end up with a lot of soap on the sponge!

Good trick.  This reminds me of this other thing they taught us in the marketing class in college.  There's this company that manufactures MSG (the food condiment), and in order to increase sales instead of spending more money on advertisement or improving the formula or something like that, they just made the holes in the shaker much bigger.  It achieved the goal, sales really increased.