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Well, school has started and is keeping me busy, however not busy enough it seems :P. But I have massive breaks each day so I've been pondering how to network my gear better and have a more comfortable environment at school. There's shit wi-fi at school. It's only in the library and only for like port 80 and 433. I really need port 22 to be productive. So I usually use the lab computers rather than bring my laptop. Squirrel Mail has been pretty decent for keeping on top of my mail, but my RSS feeds have been getting out of control since I could only check them from my computer. So I decided I needed an online way to read them, so I launched planet.mindstab.net so I could keep track of everything from anywhere.
I've been playing around with webcams lately, and discovered that even in the $100+ range the quality is still generally poor. So I don't have a new webcam. But I did pick up a 1GB Kingston USB disk (tiny in physical size) for $70 once I get my mail in rebate. I'll be drop a bunch of software on their and customized to my likings. Hopefully that will help. Also, once the GP2X starts functioning properly with USB 2.0, I can use it as an SD card read and portable Unix environment. So that's all looking pretty good.
Also, when I got my GP2X I was feeding it AA batteries. I was worried. But it seems it was the battery quality. I'm sure it's still pretty aggressive on power, but the NoName Brand batteries were crap and needed changing a few times a day. I got some Energizer 2500mAh NiMH batteries for Christmas and they've been lasting much longer.
January 21st, 2006 at 4:28 am
Just a quick suggestion, run a seperate instance of ssh on port 443 in addition. All proxy servers, if they want to support HTTPS, permit the CONNECT method to port 443. This means you can get ssh access with no problem. If the school is being moronic and subscribes to the idea that “transparent proxy servers are cute” then I can guarentee that port 443 is open and so you will not need to instruct your ssh client to go via an HTTP proxy server.
Of course this all fails if you actually run a secure website on that IP already :)
Once you have done this you have two options to really make things nice:
1. shunt a ppp session through one of the many port forwarding methods outlined online to give yourself a mini-VPN
2. easier, to give you universal access everywhere, run a copy of tinyproxy on your remote server bound to 127.0.0.1:8080 and open it up to permit CONNECT to *any* port number. Anything you want on ports other than 80/443 you can get to bouncing off your home proxy server that you access through an SSH tunnel
….now why am I here…stumbled on your site whilst digging around about the GP2X :)
Cheers
Alex
January 21st, 2006 at 9:33 am
Thanks. I’ll investigate this, but the problem is, I also have an ISP who block incoming connections on many useful ports like 21, 25, 80, and 443. And the actual lab computers at school all have much less restrictive internet access so I can use SSH from them. With that I at least have putty/ssh port forwarding working so I can also get on MSN etc. And I’ve now put good software on my USB stick so all in all I’m in pretty decent shape. None the less I’ll investigate this further and see if there are any ports the proxy lets through on wi-fi that my ISP also lets through.
As for the GP2x, there are a few things I’ve posted on the site that might be of interest, unless you were just looking for general information.
Thanks.