Sadly, I have to say that this tends to reflect my experience. I was guided to OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer - and a very nice chap he is too. Technically, it looked really good and I came very close to using it for a couple of projects. Even made a (financial) donation to the project because I thought "this is something I don't mind paying for."
Then I got Eaten by Trolls. I asked a couple of - what anywhere else - would be harmless/innocent questions. I had a few sensible, considerate, answers - mostly off list. A couple of them warned me about the, uh, less savoury members of the community. But some of the responses I got, one in particular, made me leave and swear never to go back.
Maybe I am oversensitive, but I found those trolls really scary. I would not want to make use of any technology that I wouldn't recommend to a friend or client and - no matter how good the technology - there is no way that I would refer anyone towards something with a community that seems to have so many hostile, anti-social, members.
Which is a shame. It may just be a nasty, vocal minority (the other guys were really nice); but I wasn't going to hang around any longer to find out.
Many technical users will bypass this in a matter of minutes....
As a 'technical user' I have just been trying that - running over an SSL tunnel to a box in the USA that I have set up with the Squid proxy server.
I ran the test thinking that this would be too slow to be useable, but have managed to use media-rich sites - including YouTube - without any serious performance issues.
So, not only would tunneling bypass the censorship aspect of the filter, but it might run quicker too.
Thank you for this - I've learned something new.
For those looking for the parameter, it is:
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
My default was set at 4.
Thank you for that - can't recall the last time that I read something that actually made me laugh out loud. Just as well I wasn't drinking my cup of something not quite entirely unlike a cup of tea, otherwise it would be coming out of my nose.
This is something I wrote so that I could do away with Firefox bookmarks altogether and have the same bookmarks on my laptop and desktop.
It's server-based and works with a Firefox toolbar (there's also an ancient and crude IE toolbar too) or just straight through the Web.
My wife and I have been using it for over a year now, I never got around to doing anything like a public release. You're more than welcome to give it a go, if you wish.
Let me know if you'd like an "invitation" (yeah, got that idea from a certain Search provider turned Mail provider). I'm not entirely sure that the invite system survive the change of hosting providers.
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Sadly, I have to say that this tends to reflect my experience. I was guided to OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer - and a very nice chap he is too. Technically, it looked really good and I came very close to using it for a couple of projects. Even made a (financial) donation to the project because I thought "this is something I don't mind paying for."
Then I got Eaten by Trolls. I asked a couple of - what anywhere else - would be harmless/innocent questions. I had a few sensible, considerate, answers - mostly off list. A couple of them warned me about the, uh, less savoury members of the community. But some of the responses I got, one in particular, made me leave and swear never to go back.
Maybe I am oversensitive, but I found those trolls really scary. I would not want to make use of any technology that I wouldn't recommend to a friend or client and - no matter how good the technology - there is no way that I would refer anyone towards something with a community that seems to have so many hostile, anti-social, members.
Which is a shame. It may just be a nasty, vocal minority (the other guys were really nice); but I wasn't going to hang around any longer to find out.
Many technical users will bypass this in a matter of minutes. ...
As a 'technical user' I have just been trying that - running over an SSL tunnel to a box in the USA that I have set up with the Squid proxy server.
I ran the test thinking that this would be too slow to be useable, but have managed to use media-rich sites - including YouTube - without any serious performance issues.
So, not only would tunneling bypass the censorship aspect of the filter, but it might run quicker too.
I wish :-(
Thank you for this - I've learned something new. For those looking for the parameter, it is: network.http.pipelining.maxrequests My default was set at 4.
Thank you for that - can't recall the last time that I read something that actually made me laugh out loud. Just as well I wasn't drinking my cup of something not quite entirely unlike a cup of tea, otherwise it would be coming out of my nose.
This is something I wrote so that I could do away with Firefox bookmarks altogether and have the same bookmarks on my laptop and desktop.
It's server-based and works with a Firefox toolbar (there's also an ancient and crude IE toolbar too) or just straight through the Web.
My wife and I have been using it for over a year now, I never got around to doing anything like a public release. You're more than welcome to give it a go, if you wish.
http://websticky.net/
Let me know if you'd like an "invitation" (yeah, got that idea from a certain Search provider turned Mail provider). I'm not entirely sure that the invite system survive the change of hosting providers.