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choka writes "I came across a new Mozilla deriative known as Ghostzilla. It has the ability to open and hide the browser within most applications with simple mouse gestures, ensuring no one will discover what por^H^H^Hsites you visit in office ;) (i.e., if your sysadmins don't check the proxy logs...)"
IIRC I think that chessmaster 1000 also had this feature that brought a dummy financial statement on F9
useful to say the least. The big stuff makes good software but its the little things that make a program great.
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
What platform does this run on... the screenshots show only Windows. Is there a Linux version? The download link doesn't allow you to specify the platform...
Text-based browsing is the way to go for "clandestine" browsing sessions. Especially if your job consists of programming anyway, from a distance it all looks the same.
Even better, if you're a web developer, just browse in source form, then nobody at all will be able to tell you're slacking off instead of working on the new internet site.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
And at my work, like most other workplaces no doubt, they check the proxy logs anyways, so it wouldn't be much of a gain. It would be very easy to write a little script to go through and identify the "top" web surfers and to see who's surfing sites with pr0n-related terms, or anonymizing sites.
<hypocrite>Anyway, you should do your web surfing from home!</hypocrite>
"Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey
Speaking further of mouse gestures, moving your pointer all the way left, then all the way right, then all the way left again is a poor choice of gesture. It takes way too long to be useful, esp. if you're using a trackpad. Perhaps a R-L-R-L mouse button combination, or even just a keystroke would be a better choice.
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I've worked plenty of places where IS and IS only were allowed to install ANY software. Even though most of us were developers with years of experience, unauthorized installation of anything was potentially grounds for termination.
I hate that crap. My last job was like that, and productivity was very poor. You have to move fast, and delaying for a week to get IS to approve and install some kind of utility or program you need is rediculous. Those companies deserve what they get, which is probably bankruptcy.
looking for "inappropriate" material, usually need look no further than their own history folders.
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I always thought Slashdot should have a boss button.
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On my Mac I remember there were programs that would take you to a fake Excel-looking spreadsheet or to some screen of "loading data" with different progress bars and whatnot. Can't remember which games these were though.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
The problem with those is that they would most likely be intercepted and interpreted that Ghostzilla is running within the window of. Mouse movements are one of the few input functions that most programs don't use for command execution.
"We are far too easily pleased." --C.S. Lewis
Did you read anything from the site? It does a little more than add mouse gestures. It puts a black and white web browser window on top of any application (framed in current application) without any borders, buttons, etc. It's certainly not invisible but someone could easily walk by your desk and think you're not browsing the web. All the mouse gesture does is eliminate the browser portion of the screen allowing the original app to shine through. Since human vision is so tuned toward movement this method of hiding draws far less attention than your plain old mouse gesture.
Just run an SSH server on port 23 instead of port 22. That's what I do. Try the -p option.