| 2012/5/18-7/20 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54392 Activity:nil | 5/18 On my Win7 machine, I've been using a PuTTY ssh session to soda as a
proxy for my FireFox to bypass my company's OpenDNS when I visit
http://tv.yahoo.com and so on. It has been working fine for a long while.
However, in the past couple weeks or so, my FireFox would either take
several minutes to load the page, or failes to load it after several
minutes. I haven't changed any settings on my Win7 machine. Rebooting
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| 2009/10/1-21 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53417 Activity:moderate | 10/1 I am thinking of installing firefox on soda under my home directory.
Will this make me a hozer?
\_ Possibly. I wonder if we should have another VM for that...btw,
I remember someone saying they're glad we're not on FreeBSD
anymore, but last I checked, a bunch of our stuff is on FreeBSD,
but our login server is not.
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| 2009/7/4-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53111 Activity:low | 7/4 Is there a web browser available on soda? My employer has a firewall
blocking some web sites.
\_ How about setting up a web proxy on Soda?
\_ Use links :)
\_ lynx?
\_ Best text only web browser is elinks, it even supports some
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| 2009/5/7-14 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/Virus, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:52968 Activity:nil | 5/7 Help, I think something's wrong with my network setting. I'd go to
a web site, and then it would say "cannot find address". Then I'd
reload again, occassionally 3 times, to load the page. Is this
due to DNS being too slow, TTL setting, or something else?
\_ windows mac or linux ?
\_ windows (company issued laptop, no alternative)
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| 2009/3/27-4/2 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:52764 Activity:nil | 3/27 i just want to set up a proxy. squid is too annoying. privoxy
locks too much content down. any tips ?
\_ Use ssh's built-in SOCKS server. On the client, run "ssh -D1080
proxyhost", and then set your browser to use localhost:1080 as a
SOCKS proxy.
\_ best advice. Fuck squid. SSH has everything.
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| 2009/1/26-29 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:52472 Activity:kinda low | 1/26 is there a Firefox extension that lets me change what
proxy I am connected to? Foxyproxy appears to not redirect
in several circumstances.
\_yes.
\_ oh you're back.
\_ if you have to ask you don't know (and we're not telling)
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| 2008/12/7-10 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/Networking] UID:52191 Activity:kinda low | 12/6 I got my g1 phone to provide my laptop with internet access.
It wasn't too painful.
\_ throw enough money at a problem and it gets solved
\_ was it real protocol-independent internet access, or were you just
using the phone as a web proxy?
\_ Tetherbot on the g1 creates a socks proxy
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