IT geeks enter here!!

[Disco Dan]

Alrighty...

Can anyone tell me how to set up a proxy address thingy..

Ie I want to surf the net at work without them knowing where I am browsing etc

Do I just type in something before the page address I want??

Cheers

[warewolf]

Google "anonymous proxy (http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=anonymous+proxy)"

[Grub]

Send an Email to Wasp, he won't get a pm.

[xwhatsit]

The most user-friendly way is to go to one of those sites from Warewolf's Google search. You go to a site, punch in the site you want to go to, and you'll get your site in a frame on the proxy page.

Issues include performance. Privacy (not with work, but with the owners of the proxy site). Also, it's not as foolproof as you think -- your work may have a list of all the common proxy sites, and as soon as they pick up on one they'll keep extra special attention to your actions. Any packet sniffer can see what's going on anyway.

[Kittyhawk]

If its on a wireless setup, take your laptop in and just hook into it that way...

Let me guess, ya surfing for porn right?

Look if you want some I can send it...just not the home made stuff tho!

[Winter]

Depends what your after buddy.

Your best bet is to pay some clever bastard (like me) big dollars for access to the net via an encrypted VPN.

Then there is no way of your work knowning what you've been looking at, short of a keylogger / screen capture on your pc.

[jrandom]

How about not stealing your employer's time and bandwidth?

Now there's a novel bloody thought.

[Disco Dan]

The most user-friendly way is to go to one of those sites from Warewolf's Google search. You go to a site, punch in the site you want to go to, and you'll get your site in a frame on the proxy page.

Issues include performance. Privacy (not with work, but with the owners of the proxy site). Also, it's not as foolproof as you think -- your work may have a list of all the common proxy sites, and as soon as they pick up on one they'll keep extra special attention to your actions. Any packet sniffer can see what's going on anyway.

Main reason behind it is my work has been trying to 'crack down' and said we are not allowed to use internet for 'personal use' while on shift... all the girls check their hotmail accounts etc.. and I surf KB :whistle:

Its not so much which sites I goto but more that I do at all...

oh hang about.. I would just need to hide the sites and if im ever asked about the internet usage just say it was work related.. :gulp:

[scracha]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?p=1247485#post1247485

hmm..houstonbooks proxy is down. Try this one.

http://clstuesday.co.in

[jrandom]

Main reason behind it is my work has been trying to 'crack down' and said we are not allowed to use internet for 'personal use' while on shift...

You don't like that? Then either go find someone who wants to pay you to surf the net, or stop cheating your employer out of the wages they pay you to do an agreed-upon job.

Useless cunts like you make me despair of the future of our economy. Where do you think that money you get paid comes from? Other useless cunts sitting around surfing the net?

Sooner or later, someone has to generate something of value, you know. At the moment, that's obviously someone other than you.

So, Mr Disco. How does it feel to be a parasite?

[Disco Dan]

You don't like that? Then either go find someone who wants to pay you to surf the net, or stop cheating your employer out of the wages they pay you to do an agreed-upon job.

Useless cunts like you make me despair of the future of our economy. Where do you think that money you get paid comes from? Other useless cunts sitting around surfing the net?

Sooner or later, someone has to generate something of value, you know. At the moment, that's obviously someone other than you.

So, Mr Disco. How does it feel to be a parasite?

Hmm, I understand your point of view. Believe me I do. I just choose to ignore it. Good god thats a one sided point of you you have there.

I have a job with periods of 'downtime' working with actual "people" rather than computers gives rise to periods where everyone is actually behaving and thus giving me and my colleagues welcome chance to actually sit down and interact with people that are not clinically insane. Once you have done this then you have grounds for comment.

[Ixion]

,, giving me and my colleagues welcome chance to actually sit down and interact with people that are not clinically insane. ,,.


and I surf KB


Am I the only one who sees the inherent contradiction here ?

[jrandom]

I have a job with periods of 'downtime' working with actual "people" rather than computers gives rise to periods where everyone is actually behaving and thus giving me and my colleagues welcome chance to actually sit down and interact with people that are not clinically insane.

Yes, I figured this is where you'd be coming from.

Doesn't matter.

Just go mop the fucking floors or something, you lazy bastard.


Once you have done this then you have grounds for comment.

I tried a few brain-dead jobs while I was a teenager. They didn't suit my temperament.

Being too stupid to earn a living doing something stimulating enough to occupy your mind continuously is no excuse for stealing your employer's time and internet bandwidth.

Like I said.

Floors, mop, you. It's called a 'work ethic'.

And what's with this peace treaty nonsense? You know I think you're a slimy little weasel, mostly because of threads like this one...

[Disco Dan]

Yes, I figured this is where you'd be coming from.

Doesn't matter.

Just go mop the fucking floors or something, you lazy bastard.



I tried a few brain-dead jobs while I was a teenager. They didn't suit my temperament.

Being too stupid to earn a living doing something stimulating enough to occupy your mind continuously is no excuse for stealing your employer's time and internet bandwidth.

Like I said.

Floors, mop, you. It's called a 'work ethic'.

And what's with this peace treaty nonsense? You know I think you're a slimy little weasel, mostly because of threads like this one...

Pull your pants back up.. all I can see is your arse.


Not my fault I enjoy my job. Take a look at yourself sometime buddy.

"Camping out" in the thread, waiting for me too bite?? :ROFL: get a girlfriend.

[Disco Dan]

Am I the only one who sees the inherent contradiction here ?

Im not the only one that's surprised there is only one 'depression' thread...

Jranonuts has made this place into a fricking petting zoo... its like Auckland Zoo but with an extra monkey.

[Kittyhawk]

Hope that dont go to PD first time Ive smiled tonight.

Jrandom does have a point..when I was working at National bank we could not bypass the internet restrictions which were placed on our workstations....

Ment we had to work...even during breaks we were not allowed to surf the internet because of the level of security involved..

Most work places I know do not allow internet for personal use.

Personally Id' say leave it to the IT geeks who are trained and know how to do it without fucking it up...

But on the other hand its a similar concept to "cash under the table" but in this instance its the internet..

oh fuck Im thinking too hard here gota go. :whistle:

[Big Dog]

I believe that dan was referring to it is possible to type in a single chained address that brings up the page in the browser as normal but as far as the local pc (or sniffing software) knows you are visiting as site called proxy4free.

People I know do it but I don't want to get fired and so I don't.

[Disco Dan]

Jrandom does have a point..when I was working at National bank we could not bypass the internet restrictions which were placed on our workstations....

Frozen banana for you....


That was a bank! I would not want fricking cell phones on at work... let alone allowing internet use!!! :christ:

[jrandom]

"Camping out" in the thread, waiting for me too bite??

Nobody on KB needs to 'camp out' in threads. The quote notification function is really handy.

:)

I won't stomp on you any more about this, but seriously, man, if you're going to lie, cheat or steal, be smart enough to keep it secret...

[NighthawkNZ]

Most work places I know do not allow internet for personal use.


Most corperations and larger business don't allow this, many smaller do as long as if your work gets done and you are not breaking any laws and or surf for porn etc...

Im lucky at my job I be the IT and am allowed to surf where and when I want or need... :) :D

[Disco Dan]

Nobody on KB needs to 'camp out' in threads. The quote notification function is really handy.

:)

I won't stomp on you any more about this, but seriously, man, if you're going to lie, cheat or steal, be smart enough to keep it secret...

Yep just like the elephant and the mouse... go find your cheese.

Cant be arsed dredging up your dirt... another time maybe.

[jrandom]

Yep just like the elephant and the mouse... go find your cheese.

Huh?

:confused:


Cant be arsed dredging up your dirt... another time maybe.

I was smart enough to keep it secret!

:laugh:

It is widely acknowledged that I am a Bad Man.

:yes:

[Ixion]

Is this an offical proscription from on high ? In which case it may be backed up by the DHB (or whoever the cappo di tutti capo org is) IT geeks. Who will know exactly what you are doing, and will probably pot you for it.

Or is it just your level boss being anal? In which case the problem is much simpler.

OH, and most *enlightened* businesses nowdays allow 'reasonable' use internet access for staff. Exceptions are government organisations (because they always have a pineapple up their collective arse), very small businesses (cos they think it will cost them money), and banks (cos they are paranoid).

[Grub]

Dan, Jrandom does have a point. Loss of productivity due to internet surfing is a world-wide problem ... and it is regarded as a form of theft.

The trouble is that reasonable use gets allowed and somebody abuses it so they clamp down and reasonable users suffer.

We've just had to do this because of such issues. A couple of people looked like they were spending the whole day on tardme. We can see the sites visited and the computer/user. We have to because when someone hits a worm/virus/sniffer we need to get the flag within seconds so that we can deal with it.

Nobody wants to spoil anyone's general enjoyment and use of the facilities but one or more of your co-workers will or have fucked it up ...so now you all pay. What your bosses should do is let it drop who that person was and then the staff will all beat up on them - problem solved.

[xwhatsit]

Its not so much which sites I goto but more that I do at all...

Well then using a proxy site will really fuck you up. They hide which sites you are going to, but immediately betray the fact you are hiding from them. The exact opposite of what you want.

Mr Winter's onto it. VPNs are they only real way out of this situation, as I'm sure most workplaces wouldn't object to you logging into your home server via ssh to grab some work files you forgot :innocent:

Was fun at school to play with this stuff, but it seems a bit childish doing it at your workplace.

[Kittyhawk]

Frozen banana for you....


That was a bank! I would not want fricking cell phones on at work... let alone allowing internet use!!! :christ:

How did you know about the banana? (only it wasn't frozen) And remember it was a frozen sausage you idiot!! Honey soy to be excact lol!!

Guess I was a naughty girl because I always had my cell phone on between calls...despite the fact I did all my work lol..


Most corperations and larger business don't allow this, many smaller do as long as if your work gets done and you are not breaking any laws and or surf for porn etc...

Im lucky at my job I be the IT and am allowed to surf where and when I want or need... :) :D

Ok so when am I allowed to work for you and "surf the internet for such pleasurable purposes?" hehehe.


Huh?

:confused:



I was smart enough to keep it secret!

:laugh:

It is widely acknowledged that I am a Bad Man.

:yes:

So does that mean I can not sit on a towel and moisten on Betty? oooer youre soo naughty!!! :shutup:

[parsley]

A couple of people looked like they were spending the whole day on tardme.
I hope there was better evidence than "looked like"...

This is one of my personal bugbears - Management who check your internet usage as a way of seeing who's working. If the only way they have of measuring your productivity is checking your time on the net then they have far bigger problems than a few people checking tardme.

[Kittyhawk]

I hope there was better evidence than "looked like"...

This is one of my personal bugbears - Management who check your internet usage as a way of seeing who's working. If the only way they have of measuring your productivity is checking your time on the net then they have far bigger problems than a few people checking tardme.

I suggest that you never work for a bank - based on personal experience here, because its not only computer log on usage they monitor its damn phone calls as well, including personal calls! lol :lol:

[Usarka]

This is one of my personal bugbears - Management who check your internet usage as a way of seeing who's working. If the only way they have of measuring your productivity is checking your time on the net then they have far bigger problems than a few people checking tardme.

That is poor management (unless they are proving that your excuse of being "too busy" to finish work is just that, an excuse). But on the flip side are employees who achieve exactly what they are tasked without ever stretching themselves or taking initiative, then expect a pay rise at the end of the year.

NZ has one of the lowest productivity outputs in the oecd. And now the highest house prices according the the nz herald.

[Grub]

I hope there was better evidence than "looked like"...

This is one of my personal bugbears - Management who check your internet usage as a way of seeing who's working. If the only way they have of measuring your productivity is checking your time on the net then they have far bigger problems than a few people checking tardme.

Actually we don't go looking. The firewall system monitors internet traffic by a number of parameters and produces a monthly report of that traffic - we have to pay heavily for overruns to our volume plan.

When the use graph shows the Tardme bar 4 times higher than anything else you have to investigate. So no, we don't sit and monitor people's internet use, we react to major exceptions to business-as-usual. Therefore, those who abuse the system get spoken to about it.