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[Feb. 5th, 2006|12:04 pm] |
Okay, so computers always seem very elegant when you think know what they're doing.
A few cool things that I set up on my computer:
ssh -D 1080 dl325@linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk : creates a proxy server on port 1080 of my box that lets everything connect to the internet via there. A similar setup can be achieved using PuTTY, which lets you set MSN to use the localhost:1080 proxy for connecting to the net. I think it's called dynamic tunnelling or something.
Dante: handles whenever any program asks to get on the net and silently routes them via my little ssh proxy. That means all my programs connect to the internet as if they were at linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk, and they are none the wiser. Kopete *thinks* it's making a direct connection to jabber.org.au:5222, but it's in fact going via my proxy server. This is without the Kopete developers writing a single line of code to deal with proxies. Well I like it anyway. Obviously anything within .cam.ac.uk is routed directly to make things quicker, and stop the loop that would otherwise occur when trying to connect to linux.pwf.
Kopete 0.12 alpha (downloaded from svn://anonsvn.kde.org using the transparent proxy rather than wwwcache) is muchos unstable, but has support for everything Psi has (and a fair chunk of the equivalent MSN stuff too). Jabber is still exciting and (even though kopete will now connect flawlessly to MSN thanks to dante) I'm still going via jabber to connect to MSN.
It feels like we're on the edge of a breakthrough. All these distributed networks of Jabber being harnessed by Google like some kind of monstrous thousand-beast chariot of technological fire: Advancing on the bloated fortresses of MSN and AIM as they hurl boulders at each other's keeps.
This is what I do when I don't want to do my long lab write-ups. |
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