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[chess]

The school have blocked LiveJournal. I spent my free lesson today working out that they've also blocked half a ton of anonymizers, site translators, and aren't fooled by some obvious ways around it. Naath informs me that, in return, we can now swear on SP through the web interface. As I'm not particularly likely to want to swear on SP anyway, this was kind of bad.

The Internet was randomly up and down for most of the day. Dr Stallard, the poor woman responsible for this mess despite having absolutely no time to deal with it, has gone to ground - no-one will admit to seeing her, even.

Fun.

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[rho]

ssh and lynx[1]!

you know it makes sense :)

[1] or preferably links, actually. it's better

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

oo, if you can ssh, maybe you could install VNC and run Konqueror...?

[chess]

It would all be fine if we could use ssh :)

Unfortunately, everything but IE and OE is blocked at the proxy server.

[rho]

Hmmm. Any chance of finding a friendly geek who can set up sshd to listen on port 80? Or maybe a java ssh applet exists somewhere?

The only way to make a totally secure firewall is not to let anything through at all...

[jarel.livejournal.com]

Port 443 can be a useful alternative (used for SSL, so isn't always in use but doesn't usually get mangled by proxies).

[albanach.livejournal.com]

There's a java ssh client that comes with webmin, but it probably uses the same port. J is right, best bet is to use the ssl port as most proxies allow it.