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are you behind a corporate firewall? is it stopping you look at genuinely useful sites aswell as the usual tat that you shouldnt be looking at on work time?

mine does :roll:

however, i found this: http://www.coralcdn.org/

which is nice.

the crux if it is that you append .nyud.net:8090 to the end of any blocked url and you go through their proxied "version" of the site instead, so your firewall is none the wiser.

works a treat for me when looking at those sites that are blocked due to them being about "IT, programming and software engineering" (that being my job after all!) :roll: ;)
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Sometimes having a boss who is computer-illiterate has its uses.

I'm our firewall admin :innocent:
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We used to have a fantastically over-protective firewall which wouldn't let us go to the site of one of our sister titles.

Something about the c**t Evening Telegraph upset it :whistle:

We've ditched it now, and almost anything goes. Even www.distefano.com (probably safe for work if you don't mind people thinking you're very strange).

In a previous job I wrote a story about a school where kids had used the computers to look at things they shouldn't. A few weeks later I was invited to see their spanking new firewall, which did indeed filter out any site dispensing sexual material - in English.

Sadly it didn't recognise non-western alphabets. That would have been less of a problem if half the pupils weren't Hindi speakers. Or some smartass reporter had a working knowledge of Cyrillic. I wasn't invited when they produced a further firewall :lol:
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Our school's firewall blocks http://www.tierkreis.tk and http://www.ghostdance.co.uk

But they've yet to block Heartland. :twisted:
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Dammit, don't work with my works firewall.. and they block everything useful.. including most the Health & Safety executive website for some reason...
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Gottdammerung wrote:Dammit, don't work with my works firewall.. and they block everything useful.. including most the Health & Safety executive website for some reason...
you doing it like this?

http://www.myheartland.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/

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Quiff Boy wrote:
Gottdammerung wrote:Dammit, don't work with my works firewall.. and they block everything useful.. including most the Health & Safety executive website for some reason...
you doing it like this?

http://www.myheartland.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/

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Yup, comes up this page is not available...
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My firewall is wide open :D


Ohps, is that a good thing? :urff:
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andymackem wrote:We've ditched it now, and almost anything goes. Even www.distefano.com (probably safe for work if you don't mind people thinking you're very strange).
Good grief! :eek:
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Our firewall wrote:Access Denied (content_filter_denied)

Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Tasteless"

For assistance, contact Service Desk
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i could try using that site i mentioned, but for some reason i dont think i'll bother :lol: :lol:
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Don't have to bother anymore about those firewalls :innocent:

Why did nobody mention this before I was done at my summer job :lol:
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James Blast wrote:
andymackem wrote:We've ditched it now, and almost anything goes. Even www.distefano.com (probably safe for work if you don't mind people thinking you're very strange).
Good grief! :eek:
I was planning to buy one. The next time I go on holiday I'll smuggle it into the office before I leave and sit it at my desk. Or the editor's desk. Haven't decided yet.
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