No need. Get the Palm 705i or a Blackberry and you can browse without wireless ethernet or even a phone.

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No, I haven't. I thought I saw koko do it, but I had had many alts...

It's gotta be better than no FT at all...

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Boy do I feel old...

So do I! There was no internet at my old high school. There was a huge IBM mainframe with punch cards.

If they blocked FT and Yahoo at my office, I would block my home and cell phones from receiving calls from the office!

Ahhh....a fellow 1980-1983 high school graduate?


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Jeez, we didn't even have computers at my old high school. BTW, re: the FT access ban at work, I'd sue. What the hell, the insurance co. might settle outta court.

Ethan -- if you can flip xterms back to yourself...

I'm guessing you could set up your own little proxy on that machine that only listens on localhost. The use ssh to tunnel over to it.

Steve

If you went to high school in the '60's like me, there would have been no computers at all, and the "huge IBM mainframe with punch cards" was across town at the "local" university. I compiled and ran my first Fortran program on it in 1966.

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Originally posted by G2:

So do I! There was no internet at my old high school. There was a huge IBM mainframe with punch cards.

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Said MileageAddict:

Ahhh....a fellow 1980-1983 high school graduate?

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You got it! Class of 1980!

In 1974 while in high school, I wanted to take a class in Basic. Nearest computer center where we could go for lab work was at North American Rockwell's space facility (in Downey, about ten miles from the high school). Pretty cool for a 17 year old at the time, as this was one of the major facilities for the U.S. space program.

As a plebe (freshman) at the Naval Academy in 1975, our first-year computer science course used Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) programming (a much simplified version of FORTRAN) on the USNA Dartmouth Time Sharing System with the noisy remote terminals and wonderful old rolls of yellow telegraph paper.

As an attorney with DoJ I occasionally found OMNI links "forbidden." (!)

Doncha just DETEST little technogeek nazis. Like someone took Dilbert and crossed him with his pointy-haired boss. And they are EVERYWHERE these days!!!!

My last job they tracked internet usage very carefully. Once my boss called me to task for so many hits on flyertalk.com. Then I pointed out how I had not only met and exceeded but doubled my job requirements according to every metric used. He finished his little power trip with some vague threats, but he left me alone in my surfing after that.

People who ought to be focused on output spend waaaay too much time focused on process, imho...

Whatever service they are blocking with proably comes with a list of sites and flyertalk, yahoo, etc are all on it. I don't think anybody is typing them in individually.

Try going directly to the flyertalk.com IP address. Replace www.flyertalk.com in the address with 216.58.161.24

Lots of the blocking software is too stupid to check for IP address, it's only keying off the name.

HIPPA does not prevent you from plugging in laptops into a network. HIPPA prevents you from using certain information from that network. It's so totally amazing how overboard some places have gone in the name of HIPPA. If you plug in a laptop and don't go near any of the HIPPA protected stuff, then you aren't in violation. Even if you use the laptop to access information you can with your desktop, then you probably are still not in violation.

If you print it all out and take it home and post it on telephone poles in the neighborhood, that may be another story, but that isn't the fault of the laptop.

But if the OP can ssh to another machine on campus and surf from there, doesn't that mean that that:
1. There may not be a firewall between the hospital and that machine.
2. This other machine either uses a different proxy or doesn't use a proxy.
3. It is quite possible that you could:
a. set your proxy to a new proxy server that you have to set up running on that other machine.
b. set your proxy server to the one that the other machine uses.
c. create an ssh tunnel to that machine and set your proxy server to the localhost end of that tunnel.

Anyway, if you're interested, I'm sure ScottC and others can suggest solutions since there does seem to be wiggle room in your network setup.