Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2008 in
Remote Internet
There just isn’t such a thing.
Every week I open up a new trade magazine and there will be some sort of article or ad that says - “Internet Wherever You Are”, or “We Serve the Planet”. So in my continuing naivete - same reason I buy lottery tickets - I’ll go to whatever website is advertised and start reading the details. It’s always a lunch-box-letdown. Read more…
Tags: aircard, internet, remote, satellite
Part of my plan to control web access is to funnel all communications through a proxy server with a whitelist of work-approved web sites. To do this, I have to set each method of connection to the Internet to use the proxy server. With Telus’ AirCard’s the process is simple since each connection type is persistent. What I mean by that is that when the card is removed from the computer, all of it’s settings still stay.
Bell doesn’t play that way. Read more…
Tags: Access, Bell, Control, Novatel, proxy, web
Buzzwords are simply that. Some vaguely defined concept that attained a label that sounds cool at the boardroom table. Or are they? *dramatic music goes here*
With every buzzword there is something of substance. I seem to remember a buzzword something like “the paper-less office”. It drove an entire economy for years and still does today. We like the idea of less paper, not so much for ecological reasons, but for the simplified logic that less paper should mean less paper work.
I think we all know how that’s turning out.
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In order to enforce compliance with the Internet Acceptable Use Policy, my users have all their communications routed through a proxy server that I control with a whitelist. If the site isn’t on the whitelist - the user cannot visit it.
Some users have circumvented this by running their own web browser from a USB Thumb Drive, often a U3 enabled drive using either Firefox or TorPark or something like that. I’ve found a way to stop that too.
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Tags: drive, internet, proxy, restriction, U3, USB
