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notwilight · October 30, 2007 3:55AM

My company just blocked all the photo hosting services this morning. At first only half the photos here went to red x's. I could still see photobucket. Then photobucket photos went x also. No more cool photos. No ebay either. That got blocked today too.

I guess I'd better be working my ass off so I can retire at 55. I'll be 51 in Dec.

--Jerry

Russ · October 30, 2007 3:56AM

The place where I work doesn't block anything.

Russ, NCNE

lordmarcovan · October 30, 2007 3:58AM

As discussed in our PMs, I Feel Thy Pain, O Brother. My work just did the same, so half the pix on the forums (Photobucket images) are red-X when I am at work. At least I can still read the forums. For now. CU has flown under their "online communities" radar. And they haven't zapped eBay... yet.

notwilight · October 30, 2007 4:00AM

<< The place where I work doesn't block anything. Russ, NCNE >>

Russ,
I will probably be working hard to increase my volume so that I can work where you do. --Jerry

lordmarcovan · October 30, 2007 4:02AM

He's just upset because now he can't see the pics I just posted of my wife's melons.

LALASD4 · October 30, 2007 4:03AM

I guess you have to take your laptop and use the phone line.

lordmarcovan · October 30, 2007 4:09AM

Sux fer me, 'cause at work there is a nice, fast connection, and I do most of my surfing there. But here at home the satellite is quirky and slower (as bad as dialup this morning! Grr!).

So I can see the pix at home, but they take longer to load.

Oh, well. At least I don't still have dialup at home. *shudder*

(Out here in the boonies, that was all we could get until we got the less-than-perfect but usually-a-little-better-than-dialup satellite DSL.)

DUIGUY · October 30, 2007 4:14AM

Same here. It SUCKS !!

Coxe · October 30, 2007 4:20AM

You could put together an https proxy relay outside the company and view everything seamlessly at work and with no audit trail for the URLs.

So you can't see Marty's wife's melons? Too bad; they are HUGE. Maybe you'll get lucky and see them at home before the moderators block the image.

notwilight · October 30, 2007 4:22AM

<< You could put together an https proxy relay outside the company and view everything seamlessly at work and with no audit trail for the URLs. >>

I may have to start learning much more about the internet....thanks for the suggestion. --Jerry

LALASD4 · October 30, 2007 4:23AM

<< You could put together an https proxy relay outside the company and view everything seamlessly at work and with no audit trail for the URLs. >>

How do you do that?

notwilight · October 30, 2007 4:23AM

<< He's just upset because now he can't see the pics I just posted of my wife's melons.

>>

Yes, I could really use a few mellon photos right now.

Coxe · October 30, 2007 4:27AM

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<< You could put together an https proxy relay outside the company and view everything seamlessly at work and with no audit trail for the URLs. >>

How do you do that? >>

Write an https socket service in perl or python on an external machine with a simple post page that takes the URL as post data, runs as a socket client to get each and deliver it under the port 443 secure http service, outside the view of filters, logs, ... Done these sorts of things before and probably could commercialize it. It's effectively a secure tunnel of one protocol using another. Thought about doing this for peer-to-peer stuff that is increasingly blocked too.

LALASD4 · October 30, 2007 4:29AM

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<< You could put together an https proxy relay outside the company and view everything seamlessly at work and with no audit trail for the URLs. >>

How do you do that? >>

Write an https socket service in perl or python on an external machine with a simple post page that takes the URL as post data, runs as a socket client to get each and deliver it under the port 443 secure http service, outside the view of filters, logs, ... Done these sorts of things before and probably could commercialize it. It's effectively a secure tunnel of one protocol using another. Thought about doing this for peer-to-peer stuff that is increasingly blocked too. >>

Thanks. But you lost me starting on the 3rd word of your 1st sentence.

TrustNo1 · October 30, 2007 4:30AM

quit that job.

Swampboy · October 30, 2007 4:30AM

<< You could put together an https proxy relay outside the company and view everything seamlessly at work and with no audit trail for the URLs. >>

Coxe, a suggestion.
Put that in your sigline and add "will coach for coins."

Gemineye · October 30, 2007 4:37AM

Even a cave man could do it.....I'm still droolin' over the melons.....

ricko · October 30, 2007 4:57AM

Coxe, I understood a small portion of that.. but it would be very valuable to me to clearly understand the entire process - i.e. necessary equipment and procedure to set it up. If you have the time available soon, perhaps you could detail it here or in a PM... Thanks, Cheers, RickO

ModernCrapNut · October 30, 2007 6:03AM

What in the heck is wrong with corporate America. Expecting people to work instead of surfing the net....geeesh. I sure like those melons, bet you have fun working on those.

ModernCrapNut · October 30, 2007 6:04AM

What in the heck is wrong with corporate America. Expecting people to work instead of surfing the net....geeesh. I sure like those melons, bet you have fun working on those.

TorinoCobra71 · October 30, 2007 9:56AM

<< The place where I work doesn't block anything.

Russ, NCNE >>

Thats because YOU OWN IT!

TC71

cullenbryant · October 30, 2007 11:51AM

that happened where i work, i can still see imageshack.
ebay's blocked too, it was a game of cat and mouse at first and i could get
in through ebay.uk and log into myebay and manage my account/see bids, then ebay.cn
finally they got anything ebay associated.

even after the final ebay nuking, when i really HAD to see if i was winning a bid or see what the bid was at
for one of my own items, i could get in through Goofbay and at least see what was going on.
they got it too finally.

toolhaus can be used to obtain info also about who's winning the bid, if you have the item number.

there's always friends of the forum that will look in in a real pinch.

Red x-ville

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