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Aug. 18th, 2005 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheeAfter my talk today, I started to investigate the login situation more closely.
My situation is this: I can log in to the Linux box on my desk, but I have only user access and only on that machine. While other data is cross-mounted on this machine, I cannot use the web for very much: gmail and other main mail sites are blocked, and all ports except for http are blocked as well. Thus I cannot even ssh to machines at the lab in the PNW.
To make matters worse, I cannot even get a DNS for those pages. That's right: `ping www.google.com` does not work from my desk, and not because ping packets are swallowed -- though they apparently are. It's because "unknown host google.com".
And if that wasn't enough, the workstation is running RH 8.0, which is a seriously stale distribution. It runs Mozilla 1.0.1, and I can't even install my own Firefox -- the library of glibc is out of date.
Apparently there is a wireless network with better access, but my wireless card doesn't see it. It may be because the network is WPA encrypted, but I don't know if that should matter. My card's been acting weird, so I don't know for sure that's what the problem is.
I went to Fry's -- an impressive store, really -- and bought a D-link wireless USB adapter. But I can't get it recognized. Perhaps a project for later.
My situation is this: I can log in to the Linux box on my desk, but I have only user access and only on that machine. While other data is cross-mounted on this machine, I cannot use the web for very much: gmail and other main mail sites are blocked, and all ports except for http are blocked as well. Thus I cannot even ssh to machines at the lab in the PNW.
To make matters worse, I cannot even get a DNS for those pages. That's right: `ping www.google.com` does not work from my desk, and not because ping packets are swallowed -- though they apparently are. It's because "unknown host google.com".
And if that wasn't enough, the workstation is running RH 8.0, which is a seriously stale distribution. It runs Mozilla 1.0.1, and I can't even install my own Firefox -- the library of glibc is out of date.
Apparently there is a wireless network with better access, but my wireless card doesn't see it. It may be because the network is WPA encrypted, but I don't know if that should matter. My card's been acting weird, so I don't know for sure that's what the problem is.
I went to Fry's -- an impressive store, really -- and bought a D-link wireless USB adapter. But I can't get it recognized. Perhaps a project for later.
