Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread grarpamp
So long as more nodes come online, and those nodes have proper family statements, particularly regarding physical/geopolitical location... I don't really see any problem with any form of organization doing this. For profit or not. Nor any problem with any level of transparency. From open books and

Re: why is the traffic not more linear?

2010-05-13 Thread DC
with his kind of exit policy, what exactly the type/kind of node is that? and it thought if i calculate the RelayBandwidthRate below it's AccountingMax i will never go into hibernation. On 5/14/10, and...@torproject.org wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:22:49AM -0400, michael.gom...@gmail.com w

Re: How to "wrap" applications in Mac OS X?

2010-05-13 Thread W
Responding to part of what you said in the Exit Node Sponsorship thread, this makes me think that something which could be really useful -- and which could certainly lessen the newbie-not-effectively-using-Tor-syndrome: a sort-of launcher and "dashboard" for apps that are to be "Torified" (using

Re: why is the traffic not more linear?

2010-05-13 Thread andrew
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:22:49AM -0400, michael.gom...@gmail.com wrote 1.6K bytes in 47 lines about: : significant parts of my torrc: : : RelayBandwidthRate 100 KBytes # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps) : RelayBandwidthBurst 200 KBytes # But allow bursts up to 200KB/s (1600Kbps) : : Acco

Re: Add-on in Tor Bundle

2010-05-13 Thread andrew
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 09:57:47PM -0400, zzzjethro...@email2me.net wrote 2.1K bytes in 72 lines about: : An Add-on was added: AVG Safe Guard 9.0.0.812 This is the AVG on your system forcibly installing itself into the firefox that comes with TBB. I don't know how to stop things like this from h

Re: How to "wrap" applications in Mac OS X?

2010-05-13 Thread andrew
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 06:03:49PM -0400, waterwai...@gmx.com wrote 0.5K bytes in 14 lines about: : Is there a "torify" equivalent for Mac OS X, or does Torify work on that platform... And if so, can it wrap GUI applications as well? Asking because I'd like certain applications on my system with

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread andrew
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 09:32:29PM -0400, waterwai...@gmx.com wrote 2.3K bytes in 52 lines about: : This is not an entrepreneurial proposition all. I'm merely talking about exposing the end-users to the financial realities of operating the service, and inviting them to help in a more obvious way

Re: How to "wrap" applications in Mac OS X?

2010-05-13 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 06:03:49PM -0400, W wrote: > Is there a "torify" equivalent for Mac OS X, Check out "dsocks", by Dug Song. > or does Torify work on >that platform... Not currently, I believe. It would be great if somebody wanted to combine torsocks and dsocks so there's less work for the

Add-on in Tor Bundle

2010-05-13 Thread zzzjethro666
Hellol I just extracted the new Tor bundle browser for Windows, v 1.3.5 Running it for the first time from a USB, Vidalia connected and then I waited a few seconds for Firefox to open. It did, Torbutton enabled, but this message came with it: An Add-on was added: AVG Safe Guard 9.0.0.812 I dis

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread W
This is not an entrepreneurial proposition all. I'm merely talking about exposing the end-users to the financial realities of operating the service, and inviting them to help in a more obvious way. I'm NOT suggesting blatant nagware. "Gentle" is the word used, and I certainly never said pop-ups.

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread Jon
--- On Thu, 5/13/10, W wrote: > I'm not necessarily suggesting nagware > pop-ups, but I am talking about something like, perhaps, a > splash screen with a reminder -- and a button -- upon > launch. I can not speak for everyone else, but for my self, if I read this right, imo, there is no diff

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread W
Well, assuming that it is only a technically-minded userbase that installs Tor, then maybe! Do you guys have any sense of whether or not that's actually true? .w On May 13, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Martin Fick wrote: > I would think that the slowness of the network would be > reminder enough, no?

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread Martin Fick
--- On Thu, 5/13/10, W wrote: > I'm not necessarily suggesting nagware > pop-ups, but I am talking about something like, perhaps, a > splash screen with a reminder -- and a button -- upon > launch. I would think that the slowness of the network would be reminder enough, no? -Martin *

How to "wrap" applications in Mac OS X?

2010-05-13 Thread W
Is there a "torify" equivalent for Mac OS X, or does Torify work on that platform... And if so, can it wrap GUI applications as well? Asking because I'd like certain applications on my system without individual proxy settings to use Tor, and certain apps of the same class not to... .w

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread W
Back to the Kickstarter idea, while I fully understand and agree with most of your points, my thought was one of publicly creating awareness of need. Whatever the appropriate platform, I really think it needs to move in that direction. Let's hypothesize for a moment that a suitable basic paymen

Re: 80%+ Tor network relay "locations" unknown

2010-05-13 Thread st...@hispeed.ch
Le Thu, 13 May 2010 11:51:57 -0400, Andrew Lewman a écrit : > On Thursday May 13 2010 07:45:03 Anon Mus wrote: > > > Recently, since the TOR upgrade, have noticed that 80+ of the relay > > locations in "View the Network" are missing. > > Everyone will be seeing this soon. The SSL cert changed

Re: 80%+ Tor network relay "locations" unknown

2010-05-13 Thread Anon Mus
Andrew Lewman wrote: On Thursday May 13 2010 07:45:03 Anon Mus wrote: Recently, since the TOR upgrade, have noticed that 80+ of the relay locations in "View the Network" are missing. Everyone will be seeing this soon. The SSL cert changed/renewed. The forthcoming Vidalia 0.2.9 wil

Re: 80%+ Tor network relay "locations" unknown

2010-05-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thursday May 13 2010 07:45:03 Anon Mus wrote: > Recently, since the TOR upgrade, have noticed that 80+ of the relay > locations in "View the Network" are missing. Everyone will be seeing this soon. The SSL cert changed/renewed. The forthcoming Vidalia 0.2.9 will fix the issue. See https:/

Re: Network Status Reports

2010-05-13 Thread Martin Mulazzani
Both are neat features, we should include them in the next release of TNS. Martin Zitat von Olaf Selke : Jon schrieb: I am just curious as to why of the known mirror's that show the network status reports, why there is such a discrepancy between blutmagie reports and the others? Is blutmagi

Re: GeoIP database comparison

2010-05-13 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 13.05.2010 04:19, grarpamp wrote: > Wasn't there a user driven opensource geoip database project > somewhere? Sortof like DynDNS, users go to the website, it > pops up their ip address, they enter their location in the DB. > Thought it had some advanced stuff too, network admins > could enter CI

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 13.05.2010 03:27, and...@torproject.org wrote: > My USD $0.02. Monthly or yearly? ;-) -- Moritz Bartl GPG 0xED2E9B44 http://moblog.wiredwings.com/ *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscrib

Re: 80%+ Tor network relay "locations" unknown

2010-05-13 Thread st...@hispeed.ch
Le Thu, 13 May 2010 12:45:03 +0100, Anon Mus a écrit : > Platform: > > Win2000 Pro SP4 > TOR - Upgraded from several dev. versions ago to Tor 0.2.10-alpha > (git-81b84c0b017267b4) package last week. (Vidalia 0.2.7). > > Recently, since the TOR upgrade, have noticed that 80+ of the relay > loc

Re: Network Status Reports

2010-05-13 Thread Jon
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Olaf Selke wrote: > you are right. Blutmagie uses a different bandwidth calculation using > average bandwidth values instead of peak load. I've adopted some code > written by Kasimir Gabert from his tns 4.0 trunk version. > > Btw Kasimir's trunk tns site http://tr

80%+ Tor network relay "locations" unknown

2010-05-13 Thread Anon Mus
Platform: Win2000 Pro SP4 TOR - Upgraded from several dev. versions ago to Tor 0.2.10-alpha (git-81b84c0b017267b4) package last week. (Vidalia 0.2.7). Recently, since the TOR upgrade, have noticed that 80+ of the relay locations in "View the Network" are missing. Is anyone else seeing this

Re: GeoIP database comparison

2010-05-13 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 5/13/10 4:19 AM, grarpamp wrote: > Wasn't there a user driven opensource geoip database project > somewhere? Sortof like DynDNS, users go to the website, it > pops up their ip address, they enter their location in the DB. > Thought it had some advanced stuff too, network admins > could enter CID

Re: Network Status Reports

2010-05-13 Thread Olaf Selke
Jon schrieb: > I am just curious as to why of the known mirror's that show the > network status reports, why there is such a discrepancy between > blutmagie reports and the others? > > Is blutmagie using a different config in reporting than the others? > It appears blutmagie numbers are a lot