Someone asked me this morning about browsing the web and masking the IP of the origin. The most effective way to do this is with tor and privoxy. These are my notes installing this stuff on windows xp.
This is about the most simple thing.
Step 1 download and install Tor
Download from our kick ass friends at EFF the Tor & Privoxy & Vidalia bundle on this page. Run the setup and hit OK a few times.. choose the defaults.
Step 2 Get the Tor Button
Well I’m assuming that if you are reading my blog you already are using firefox. If you are not using firefox, go away.. your to stupid to figure this out. or get firefox then come back and read more.
OK then, get the Tor Button firefox extension from here. Install it and restart firefox. You should notice a new indicator on the status bar. click it to change it to “Tor Enabled”
Step 3 Test
Visit whatismyip.com or similar and confirm the IP result is not your own.
done.
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Someone asked me this morning about browsing the web and masking the IP of the origin. The most effective way to do this is with tor and privoxy. These are my notes on setting this up with a debian or ubuntu linux desktop.
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Today i’m installing ampache with a nerd in training on his ubuntu laptop heres the notes
install required stuff
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 phpmyadmin mysql-server
Go to http://localhost to see if “It Works!” if so then apache2 is running.
Then try http://localhost/phpmyadmin if it loads then ya have php5 working with apache2! requirements done. Let’s move on
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I woke up yesterday and noticed that a friend of mines domain was expired. This is not usually a big deal and can be fixed up with a few minutes and a credit card. However this particular newbie originally purchased her domain from a reseller that was reselling Tucows registrar service. Well by the time this expiration happened this reseller had moved on and was no longer doing domain sales, Making it impossible to make a payment to renew the domain name. The contact information was listed within a whois, but nobody returned my calls.
Registration Service Provider:
Coast to Coast Hosting, dns-admin@ctch.net
303-333-8947
http://www.ctch.net
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.
When I visited the website I got this “Out of Business” page.
Out of Business
Massive Server Failures Shut Us Down
Coast to Coast Hosting is no longer accepting new clients nor renewing contracts with existing clients due to several servers suffering massive disk failure.
This reseller probably did the right thing leaving the business. Heres a tip: If you can’t keep a computer running well DO NOT RUN SERVERS! Servers don’t fail on you unless you fail on them. Okay, so this guy dropped of the planet, fucking all his clients in the process. The clients did not know it yet because they are all newbs, but they will all be learning the hard way when the domains start to expire.
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