Topic: Sites blocked by your school/employer? (Read 4711 times)

BizB · « **on:** July 08, 2009, 11:02:38 AM »

http://www.online-browser.com/

You're welcome

Joe Sixpack · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2009, 12:13:09 PM »

Too bad that site is blocked!

BizB · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2009, 01:16:51 PM »

d'oh!

Min · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2009, 03:02:48 PM »

LOL. I don't know if it's blocked at school yet. If it's not I don't know whether to use it or get it blocked so that the kids can't use it.

Chris · « **Reply #4 on:** July 08, 2009, 10:52:02 PM »

Try using the Google translator tool... I heard that works wonders.

Min · « **Reply #5 on:** July 09, 2009, 02:57:14 PM »

Yeah, it was blocked. And the google thing doesn't work either.

I really just want to get to urban dictionary. It would actually HELP me in my JOB.

BizB · « **Reply #6 on:** July 09, 2009, 08:27:35 PM »

You should tell them what a great resource it is.

mryellow · « **Reply #7 on:** July 10, 2009, 03:04:09 PM »

I think it is pretty sad that western companies use this kind of China-like censoring measures. If you find that your workers are a bunch of no-good slackers, fire them. If not, show some respect. I sit behind my computer all day, as a programmer when I am 'in the zone' it is like I am on fire and I just go go go. When I am stuck on a problem, sometimes the best way out is to take my mind off it for just a few minutes while I check a few personal sites. After that, I am re-charged, usually 'magically' found my solution and back at it. This is how it works, we are not robots that are "on" for 8 hours and a 100% productive at all times. I bet only a few people out there actually abuse their employer by not actually doing a lot of work while at work and they ought to be identified and sacked. The rest of us, you are hurting our productivity by draconian measures to prevent a bit of relaxation time at work. It is like shooting a canon at a fly and not dealing with the real problem. I find it amusing that frequent smoking breaks are more or less allowed, but us non-smoking cannot have a moment of "off"-time to re-charge. 5 minutes every hour or so is not 40 minutes of lost time on a day's work, it is actually due to extra productivity a gain of like 2 or 3 hours of useful work. You get the workers that reflect how you feel about them. If you'd rather have those guys that just appear to be working but are really just sitting there waiting for the day to end, then by all means show them no respect & no trust and none shall be given back.

Thank God I work at a relatively small company where I am respected as a person. There's no filter and my boss knows I can be trusted. He will not frown upon my leisure activities at work because he knows I do not abuse the trust he placed in me. I wouldn't know how fast to get out of there if the climate was any different

Novice · « **Reply #8 on:** July 10, 2009, 03:26:58 PM »

Agreed! Whether you are trying to recharge your brain after staring at code / configuration all day or just goofing off, as long as you aren't causing any security problems I don't see the point. Let each person take responsibility for what they do with their time. If someone wanted to waste time by going to a blocked website, chances are they are going to waste that same time doing something else un-productive.

Min · « **Reply #9 on:** July 10, 2009, 03:40:34 PM »

Biz, I'm going to request that they unblock urbandictionary, but they tend to ignore requests to unblock content.

As for site blockers...necessary for schools. I wish they could block the entire internet sometimes. Students don't have the discipline required to focus when there are goodies all over the place.

And to be honest, I don't trust the other teachers that I work with to not infect the entire network with spyware and viruses.

Chris · « **Reply #10 on:** July 10, 2009, 08:56:11 PM »

You can always try using some kind of remote desktop solution. Unless they're really good and filter non-standard ports, or if they notice you hogging most of the traffic on port 80 and then pull the plug on your workstation all together.

But I agree, they should have some measures in place that let employees get past over-restrictive censorship.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #11 on:** July 13, 2009, 09:14:12 AM »

Actually Chris, remote desktop does it's traffic over port 3389, which, depending on where you're RDPing from, is probably already blocked if they have a bandwidth-conscious IT team.

12AX7 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 13, 2009, 11:32:42 AM »

Is it possible to have a small router at a workstation and redirect port requests? Since 3389 would (most likely) be blocked, could you set the router to use a different port in lieu of 3389 (for example)? Or could this be done in Windows? I'm guessing you can't reconfigure anything in the OS to have .rdp use a different port. But in the router, on the other hand, I would think you could.
Is it possible?

** Not suggesting you actually buy a router for that, Detta; just musing over how/if it could be done.

Novice · « **Reply #13 on:** July 13, 2009, 02:26:21 PM »

You can change the destination port using a router, sure; however, it wouldn't make a difference because the destination PC won't accept rdp sessions on any other ports (Assuming you are not able to change this). Unless you also connect a router to the destination and change the traffic back to 3389, I don't see it working.

Perhaps a web-based remote desktop such as WebEx might help. WebEx costs, but just throwin' an idea out there.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #14 on:** July 13, 2009, 02:53:28 PM »

Well, you can have a machine listen for RDP traffic on an alternate port (3390, for example), but if there's a firewall/router blocking that port upstream of you, having another router as your machine's local gateway won't make a difference, even if you have it set to port-forward 3390 traffic to your machine's local IP.

WebEx is one option (because it does everything over port 80), but as Novice mentioned, there's a cost associated.

Another option for port 80 might be something like RealVNC, or TeamViewer.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #15 on:** July 13, 2009, 03:09:45 PM »

Oh yeah. I almost forgot. Crossloop is another really great one that routes traffic via port 80. I've used that one a lot.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #16 on:** July 13, 2009, 07:23:57 PM »

Well it looks like facebook apps are now blocked at work, but facebook isn't. And so is the http://www.online-browser.com/. I guess I'll only be able to make my lexulous moves from home now.

Chris · « **Reply #17 on:** July 13, 2009, 10:39:06 PM »

I believe LogMeIn puts all of its traffic through port 80.

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