As promised, here’s a full walkthrough for getting past restrictive firewalls that allow only HTTP access:
Get the Your-Freedom installer. If you already have Java installed on your computer, the minimal install is god. Otherwise, you need to get the full installer that includes the Java Virtual Machine.
Install it.
Get OpenVPN. Install that too. Leave all default [...]
It’s interesting really. There is no download method as effective (or fair) as a torrent - both for the servers and the clients (it’s fast). Well, it is not actually a download in the classical sense, after all it’s Peer-to-Peer, but still, it functions effectively like a download.
Yet, there seems to be no end to [...]
As many of my regular readers will know, I keep experimenting with the ads on my blog. This is done out of fun, and to see which ad network yields the best eCPM rates.
Recently, I had two complaints from my readers, noting that the ads in the right box of the page were “somewhat inappropriate”. [...]
Normally, I would not have gone to it. My regular RSS feed from a default Wordpress install was working perfectly fine. People were subscribing to it - I could tell from my Google Webmaster statistics.
What I could not do (for free) was to find a service that emailed my RSS updates to those who do [...]
Well, sort of.
It’s not much, but recently, I burned my RSS feeds onto the venerable Feedburner, and decided to let those who wish receive my posts in their email inboxes.
What do you get? You get every one of my posts in your email. Once a day, if I make a post. Not more than once [...]
