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Hello fellow dakkaites, I have had a great time surfing trolling this website over the past year+, and as of tomorrow morning my work will be instituting a new internet filter that will, with a 99% certainty, block this website.

I very rarely spend time on the computer from home, and I do all of my painting/converting while on the phone at work, so assuming that I can no longer visit this website from work, it would mean that I will no longer be visiting this site at all.

I've had a good time chatting with all of you, and I wish you all well in your grandiose endeavors of miniature extravagance.

Please enjoy this cake in honor of my absence.

That's a shame.

However, don't be too quick to despair, my work internet filter is incredibly hardcore, yet, despite this, dakka sneaks through.

Kproxy.com?

Yea, ours is pretty harsh too, the only websites I can really visit are my email, boingboing.net and dakka, word from one of the IT guys is that the corporate office has been monitoring internet usage, and this website is on the "out" list. (most likely from my 200+ image uploads)

be cool to your school.

and I can't use a proxy unless I want to get fired (was told this a while back when I wanted to visit a couple other websites like B&C, BOLS, and warseer)

Well...it's been fun Dem.

For the Emperor and Honour *Internet hug*.

be cool to your school.

wat?

I was expecting a weinerdog attack, not a school-spirit slogan. =/

thems the breaks I guess


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internet hug and...

how about subscribing to a cheap VPN?

$3-5 dollars a month for security and freedom = priceless

Dont fret to much, this site makes it past the department of defense internet filter, so you may get luck.

Best wishes either way though.

What is this VPN sorcery?

eh, if you have a cell phone capable of it, and admin access to the computer, you can install the phone as a modem, and connect to your wireless service provider as a secondary internet source. Of course this one won't be blocked, and its not using the company network, so you won't show up as using the internet when connecting this way.

I used to do this all the time when working for verizon and I wanted to view pages like this, that were blocked.

Oh I see.

Sadly I do not have admin access, and my phone is a "dumbphone"

ah... bummer :(

also, you can use dumbphones as modems as well... though it DOES require a data plan on the phone itself.

without admin access though, you can't install the software needed to do it :-/

Yea, maybe I can start bringing in my laptop and do that. I'll look into that option

Anything to avoid work, eh?

Here's hoping you fall into the 1%.

what do you do that you can paint minis while working?

My last workplace filtered pretty much every wargaming site, except for dakka.

Hope it falls into the 1%.

I always went via google to get to dakka so the web address wouldn't jump out to auditors.

That sucks, Dakka seems to be our "last resource" when we are working :\

In the sad event that this is goodbye, I say "Goodbye". *Manly Internetz Hug*

Time to get iPhone?

Demogerg wrote:Yea, ours is pretty harsh too, the only websites I can really visit are my email, boingboing.net and dakka, word from one of the IT guys is that the corporate office has been monitoring internet usage, and this website is on the "out" list. (most likely from my 200+ image uploads)

As someone who does what your IT guys do with internet access at my company it sounds like they're just going to add a blacklist entry to dakka. Most blocker software gets updates from a few companies who ensure they block all of the porn companies along with a big list of other sites that most companies want to stop their staff accessing, these probably don't include dakka just stuff like facebook etc. Then admins like me then get to add blacklists for rules that the blockers haven't picked up and get reported, or whitelists for sites that are auto blocked but the company wants staff to have access to. If your proxy servers are any good you won't be able to get to dakka, if they're not then there may be ways around it.

Best of luck!

Yeah, I handle the network where I work. I use a proxy to filter, as well as a firewall with webfiltering that performs an auto-update every night. We block all HTTPS traffic and utilize a white list (on which Dakka resides). Just make friends with someone in IT and see if it can be added to the allow list

What you need is to install something like Linux Mint to a USB stick and boot from that instead!

Gwar! wrote:What you need is to install something like Linux Mint to a USB stick and boot from that instead!

Unless your IT department is diligent and locks the case, removes administrative privileges, removes the ability to run apps from USB, locks down the BIOS and removes the ability to boot from anything BUT the 1st hard drive.

Then your hosed

Oh, and depending on where you work, USB might be outright disabled as well.

Alas poor Demogerg, I knew him, a man of infinite wit and mostly commenting on Space Wolves and how much he liked the Lone Wolf now.

You shall be missed.

Spacemanvic wrote:

Gwar! wrote:What you need is to install something like Linux Mint to a USB stick and boot from that instead!

Unless your IT department is diligent and locks the case, removes administrative privileges, removes the ability to run apps from USB, locks down the BIOS and removes the ability to boot from anything BUT the 1st hard drive.

Then your hosed

Oh, and depending on where you work, USB might be outright disabled as well.

Well thats why you break the case open and remove the CMOS battery silly!

Gwar! wrote:

Spacemanvic wrote:

Gwar! wrote:What you need is to install something like Linux Mint to a USB stick and boot from that instead!

Unless your IT department is diligent and locks the case, removes administrative privileges, removes the ability to run apps from USB, locks down the BIOS and removes the ability to boot from anything BUT the 1st hard drive.

Then your hosed

Oh, and depending on where you work, USB might be outright disabled as well.

Well thats why you break the case open and remove the CMOS battery silly!

Which results in my calling the police and letting them handle the destruction to property (hence the LOCKing of the case - it's locked to keep you out).

Not if you do it properly!

And you can always blame the Interns.