begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:36:45PM -0800: > > On Thu, February 21, 2008 3:15 pm, SJS wrote: > > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:29:09PM -0800: > >> > >> On Thu, February 21, 2008 2:23 pm, SJS wrote: > > [snip] > >> > Troll through the magic settings dialogs looking for "proxy" or "How > >> > You Connect To The Internet" or somesuch. > >> > > >> > As you can't even hit your local machine, I'm thinking that you're > >> > using a proxy, and it's not a transparent one even. > >> > >> Now is it clear to all that I'm on a XT box here ... thus the putty? > > > > XT? What's that, MSDOS 2.0? :) > > > > If you're using XP or somesuch flavor, you still ought to have telnet, > > or you can use PuTTy in telnet mode as well. > > "P", "T" what's the difference?
Oh, just a few years. :) > BTW, I'm on a proxy server. I even have its name. Slipped my pourous mind > that I had to configure it day 1. Then I think you're doomed. If they're forcing you to use a proxy server, then they've presumably locked down all outgoing traffic from your subnet except to the server(s). (Incoming traffic too, but that's only to be expected.) (There are presumbly ways around that, but then you're up against official policy, and the ramifications of fighting that might not go your way. Tread with care.) > > I can't offer concrete advice for those in MS Hell because I don't > > play in that sewer anymore. > > > >> Hmm ... Mark Wolfe is down the hall, and he's been here a year. Maybe I > >> should just ask him what's up. > > > > Ask him for an Ubuntu live CD. . . > > Now that _is_ subversive. Heh. > <mutter> I'd like to hang onto this job for at least a _little_ while ... Okay. -- This is what I'd like to do, How do you suggest I do it? Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
