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Offline Snail

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Yes. The Snail is leaving.

I just found out that they decided to block HLP from the server. So I won't be able to access HLP (or GW I think) for basically all the time until next Christmas, and then again until next summer, starting tomorrow. I'll be able to access the internet on certain weekends and possibly Fridays if the library computer is working. Good news: You won't see me. Bad news: INFASA, AIII and MT may be held up because of this.

Oh, they also blocked SG... Basically all the places I go on.
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Offline CP5670

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:(

Who are "they?"

 

Offline Roanoke

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I found I could sneak past works blockades by using a link in an email (PM notification, for example)........ :nervous:

 

Offline Snail

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:(

Who are "they?"

The masters of the school internet.

I found I could sneak past works blockades by using a link in an email (PM notification, for example)........ :nervous:

Well they'll be on to me since I was using my own network for a while to bypass them, but then they found me out.

 

Offline Herra Tohtori

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they

Care to elaborate? ISP, school admins, Chinese internet police, mafia family from Palermo, or perhaps you meant THEM!, THEM, or perhaps even Them! or Them.

...ah, too slow, so your school admins decided to do... WHAT? :mad2:

It's time to call in the heavy artillery, methinks. Before retorting to A-10 CAS flights sweeping those blocks away.

I don't really know what's going on and where, but if its not something too sophisticated, you should be able to enter the forums from, say, proxify.com, and you might also want to take a look at XeroBank Browser which is essentially Firefox with a twist that makes it connect the host server via onion networks that effectively mask IP's here and there, which means that even if HLP/GW server for some incredible reason is blocked by the ISP, it should be circumvented by XeroBank (previously known as Torpark) because the data doesn't really seem to be coming from HLP/GW server. And, the great thing is that you don't need to install XeroBank on your PC so you don't need admin rights. You can run it from, say, USB-stick. Or your home directory, which works somewhat faster.

It's slower than regular browsing, but should work to some extent...

If it's browser specific filter/limitation, you might want to use a portable Firefox installation without the XeroBAnk's Torpark connection system.


...of course, all this applies on your school's Windows PC's. If they only use Unix, your last best hope would be proxify.com, but I wouldn't hold my breath there. And uploading/downloading files via that would not work (apart from those text files [tables in this context] that can be copy-pasted).


...Why are they doing this?

And don't you have net connection at your home? :nervous:
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Offline Snail

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The school internet people.

 

Offline Kie99

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Its not the end of the world, just find a proxy.
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Offline Polpolion

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A challenge! Here is what you do: sneak into the computer lab at night and take all the mice and keyboard cords and switch them to other computers. Also, unplug the network cables. While you're there, you could just install linux/not whatever OS they use on every single computer, too I guess.

Now I don't exactly know how this will help you contact HLP, but it sounds fun.

 

Offline Herra Tohtori

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The school internet people.

Ah - campus networks. The regime of today's dictators. :(

All the more reason for me to be a happy camper not to have gon to live in Otaniemi campus... I hear the they in there have "blocked" torrents! :shaking:
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Offline CP5670

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And don't you have net connection at your home? :nervous:

That's what I was wondering. :nervous: Or are you on a university campus-wide connection?

 

Offline Snail

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on a university campus-wide connection?

Yes. I can prolly only access it when I come back to London.

 

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Well...you have some stuff to grammar check, Snail... :(
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Offline Snail

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Send them to me and I'll be able to do them off-line... If I don't get overworked like last year. :doubt:

 
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Send them to me and I'll be able to do them off-line... If I don't get overworked like last year. :doubt:

You ALREADY have them :P

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Dark Hunter is wrong. Who came out with the "Inferno Night Cafè" idea? ME! :P
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I have 1533 on the Inferno board.
You have only 1135.

 

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You know, you could always ask why they blocked the site.  Is it just the classrooms/labs that have been blocked, or is it the entire network?  I could see the reasoning behind limiting classrooms and labs, but it'd be absurd to unconditionally block the entire network.
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Offline Sarafan

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Oh, dont worry, I'm sure you'll be back in no time. :)

 

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I have 1533 on the Inferno board.
You have only 1135.

But I have 4,161 posts. You have 6,462 posts. And I have been away for a while. Take it in consideration :P
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Offline Snail

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You know, you could always ask why they blocked the site.  Is it just the classrooms/labs that have been blocked, or is it the entire network?  I could see the reasoning behind limiting classrooms and labs, but it'd be absurd to unconditionally block the entire network.

Meh. They're stupid that way.


Well, okay, I'm leaving now, so good bye.
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