The Red Brick Times

The situation: You're in a location (at work maybe?) where browsing to, now how should I put this, "certain sites?", yeah, let's call 'em "certain sites", is blocked by web monitoring software. So there you are, desperatly needing to view some naughty bits, but all you get is "Access Denied". Poor baby. I feel your pain.

Google free proxy!: "Access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy."
Posted 7:03 AM by whatley (2) comments

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On a related note: I know a guy who runs tech for a large architectural firm in Cleveland. A few years ago he told me his users were complaining about how slow their internet connection was becoming. He at first thought there was a physical problem with the system, bad cable or router or something, but he couldn't find it. Everything was working fine, it was just maxed out with traffic. That was puzzling because, even with 200 or so users on the network, he had plenty of bandwidth and that shouldn't happen. Then it hit him. Late one Friday he messaged everyone that as of 8:00am Monday morning all sites browsed from within the office, and the associated user names, would be logged. Nothing blocked, just logged. Result: Monday morning internet traffic decreased by almost 80%. Problem solved.

# posted by  whatley : March 04, 2006 7:54 AM
 
Same thing happened where I used to work. One day, they announced that "If you use any computer resources for non-work-related activity, you will be disciplined up to, and including, termination." Computer resources included copiers, printers, blank paper, and presumably, pens and pencils (you write notes on the computer screen, don't you?). Use went down by 3/4 and stayed there.

# posted by  Andy : March 04, 2006 9:34 AM
 
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