-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Not really important or even on topic (well I am using an eeepc and I am using FLOSS tools to bypass a broken network), but I thought I would share. I am down in LA and for some reason, the hotspot at the hotel will not let me connect (it appears to be a dns problem, and they seem to block external access to 3rd party dns servers) to .ca domains. .com works fine, as does .co.uk. Google.ca fails, but google.com works. Weird. The helpdesk staff were equally puzzled. They did try, though they were unable to resolve the problem. Of course my OS was unsupported (I knew I should have brought the "big" laptop with vmware).
Fortunately I can ssh and openvpn to IPs (which is how I am writing this) so I have bypassed their network altogether. I think I am going to go donate to openvpn, openssh, mtr, now as these have been the only things to work right all day. Anyway, it is good to be a geek and to have such useful and robust tools at my fingertips. A big shout out to all the FLOSS developers out there, keep doing what you are doing. Now if only I were a better coder, I could fix the things in kde4 that are stressing my sanity. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHuBoZwRXgH3rKGfMRAp+cAKCC+4XdQ8SYVO/M0hJgyWaMOfyuogCfUHZf TQHzXdIflDUbwhqQHDTeap0= =EDTY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
