Michael Pobega wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:25:04AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Michael Pobega [mailto:pob...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Paul Gupta wrote:
Michael Pobega wrote:
I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block
all
IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on
#debian and #debian-eeepc
Is there any good way to tunnel or encrypt my data, or something
similar? I am looking for something feasible, considering I can't
afford
to run my own tunnel or proxy.
Do you have access to an SSH server somewhere?
Nope. I wish I had a blinkenshell account, but I can't actually get
into
IRC to get two members to vouch for me. Does anyone know of any good
free/cheap shell services that offer IRC? (I wouldn't mind paying say
$1/month for it, but it'd be preferable not to since I don't have my
own
PayPal).
I know I am late to the party, but thought I would chime in anyway. It
has been a few years, but when I had the same issues at my school I used
SDF ( http://sdf.lonestar.org ). I am not sure about pricing now, but
back then they only required 1$ to sign up and that was just to prevent
people from using their services as spam/attacks/ect. It was a good when
I needed it.
Have fun!
~Stack~
Thanks for the tipoff, perhaps I'll pay their price to use IRC, but do
they have irssi as an IRC client? Perhaps I'll give it a spin this
Sunday, as IRC access is free on Sundays.
Once you have a place to SSH into, you can tunnel to a local port and use whatever client (including non-command-line choices) that you
prefer on your local machine.
man ssh
~c
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