GWJ blocked at work

Certis wrote:

All this work blocking sucks. If anyone can think of any ways for us as webmasters to circumvent Websense and other programs through coding, design or redirects do let me know.

BTW what is the IP address here? I do an nslookup and I only get a "non authoritative" answer which doesn't work.

204.251.13.14

You could probably start posting your stuff on a seperate domain with other tech related stories and have it without a forum feature...for us worker bees.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Add me to the list of people whose company has the-blocker-that-shall-not-be-named, and whose access to GWJ has been blocked since around Aug. 30.

<--- sad panda

Is this the reason you haven't been chatting me up about my PSP love and current tryst with Jeanne D'Arc?

DSGamer wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

Add me to the list of people whose company has the-blocker-that-shall-not-be-named, and whose access to GWJ has been blocked since around Aug. 30.

<--- sad panda

Is this the reason you haven't been chatting me up about my PSP love and current tryst with Jeanne D'Arc?

That would be it. Haven't checked that thread in over a week. And, last time I was there it was just a couple people who were WAAAAAAY past where I am talking about how cool the latter phases of the game are.

It feels like the end of an era...

I love working at a company of only 43 people, and the IT guy is part time and one of my fellow mechanical engineers.

Zaphod wrote:

I love working at a company of only 43 people, and the IT guy is part time and one of my fellow mechanical engineers.

Word up.

When it comes to stuff like this, "its good to be the king."

For those of you using proxies on various ports, be wary. If a company wants to watch such things, they might wonder why a particular station is sending out so much FTP, SMTP, etc. traffic.

LilCodger wrote:

For those of you using proxies on various ports, be wary. If a company wants to watch such things, they might wonder why a particular station is sending out so much FTP, SMTP, etc. traffic.

Indeed. I got in trouble (not fired or anything, just warned and summarily told I was not to do X anymore) when a company I was working at found out that I was using SSH to my home machine. It was perfectly legit. I was using it...

#1 - To check email via pine
#2 - To use links, network tools, etc. to ping our external web servers from outside our network to make sure everything was working as it should (I was the web server admin and developer for said sites)

The latter was the biggest help for this. But either I was told it wasn't cool and I said sure and shut it down. Other companies might not be so understanding.

You figure Uncle Sam would be all over this, but I still have access to the site at work. I've been on army bases that blocked it based on the "games" theme, but "pron" was wide open. Go figure.

Marsman wrote:

I've been on army bases that blocked it based on the "games" theme, but "pron" was wide open. Go figure.

I am going, and I'm figuring.

I used to feel your pain, but for some reason our IT guy has recently seen fit to give me administrator status on our network. I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, hence the TF2 during lunch

My connection to GWJ at work was blocked over the weekend, leaving me in the quite annoying situation of trying to figure out how to stay in touch with the community while still keeping my job. (Lest I become a GWoaJ. That sounds like something that should live under the stairs.)

Ssh with a proxy home.

If you've got a websense block you could try to use Google Mobile to browse the site. Google acts as a temporary site cloner when it reformats the page for a mobile application, so it might work for you. It does at my place of employment anyway (not that I'd ever go to blocked sites on company time ;))