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Revision as of 15:39, 21 February 2018
, 21 February 2018Clarify lack of SLA on loaner, mention MS remote desktop app for OS X
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see also: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/54925/112073 | see also: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/54925/112073 | ||
Microsoft also has a Remote Desktop app for macOS (available on the app store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-remote-desktop-10/id1295203466?mt=12) that works pretty well and is easy to use. | |||
= How do I return it when I'm done? = | = How do I return it when I'm done? = | ||
There's no need. Your loaned instance is an Amazon EC2 spot instance whose lifetime is finite. It can even die while it's in the middle of working for you. Think of it as a disposable minion whose survival depends on being busy and who will expire when exhausted or | There's no need. Your loaned instance is an Amazon EC2 spot instance whose lifetime is finite. It can even die while it's in the middle of working for you, if the spot price is outbid. Think of it as a disposable minion whose survival depends on being busy and who will expire when exhausted, bored, or will defect to a higher-paying villain at any time. If you don't create an RDP connection to your instance within 30 minutes of requesting it, it will die of boredom. If you disconnect your RDP session for more than 15 minutes, it will die of boredom. If you shut it down. It will die fulfilled. When working on the loaner, it would be advisable to save your intermediate results periodically and script your actions, so that if the loaner disappears you can quickly get back to where you were on a new loaner. | ||
= How do I get help if it's not working? = | = How do I get help if it's not working? = | ||