[ale] Library is blocking my web site!

[Jim Lynch]

Steve Brown wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com 
> <mailto:ale at sixit.com>> wrote:
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>     Of course, you can always have her to boot up to a Live CD.  ;c)
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> That still wouldn't work if the site is being blocked at the router 
> level. This might be a bit too technical for your wife to pull off at 
> the library, but you could try setting up a poor man's proxy with ssh 
> [0]. The library might allow exe's [putty] to be downloaded to the 
> desktop and ran, but if they don't then a liveCD could be used. If 
> they won't let you boot from a CD, then your wife will have to open up 
> the computer and reset the BIOS and then boot from the CD/thumbdrive 
> <g>. The library is prob using Winders, but the setup for IE is 
> similar. I tried it yesterday, I can give you detailed instructions if 
> you want :) The library could also be blocking all ports but 80/443, 
> so you might have to run your ssh server on those ports. I ran into 
> the problem yesterday at my gf's work where it wouldn't recognize my 
> DynDNS hostname so I had to use my actual IP.
She still has a problem remembering how to copy a file from one 
directory to another.  I don't think she yet understands what a 
directory is since every time she plugs her SD card from her camera into 
her computer she has to ask me what to do next.  She's a modern day 
Luddite wrt computers.

I don't think so.  ;)

Thanks,
Jim.