Updates at http://os2ports.smedley.id.au

[Paul Smedley]

Hi All,

I took some time today to add some updated ports to my site at http://os2ports.smedley.id.au

These include updates to PHP 5.3, PHP 5.4, PHP 5.5, cmake, Ghostscript, imagemagick & squid.

I've also renamed to twitter account I was using for hplip to os2ports - and will try keep updates flowing on either things I have available for testing, on my site, or general information on what I'm working on.

A twitter feed of this account is also displayed on my site.

Happy New Year!

Paul

[arr531]

Awesome Paul. Thank you for your work and Happy New Year.

[Paul Smedley]

Awesome Paul. Thank you for your work and Happy New Year.

There is a new years day treat in the twitter feed too

[Paul Smedley]

Port of Tor added today

[mickhead]

These are great, especially Tor. thank you.

[Ben]

Thanks for the port, Paul.

I now have FireFox->Squid->Privoxy->TOR up and working fine.

However, for FYI purposes... utilizing your TOR port alone and not using the TOR Browser Bundle, only gives partial security when compared to what the two combined would yield. Your port is definitely a step in the right direction! 

To demonstrate I give these examples;

Once TOR is setup, Googling via the FireFox search bar irritates the hell outta Google and it refuses to cooperate:


"Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network.
This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot."


What this demonstrates is that TOR is working... in this situation.

However, using the Tor Check from their website yields this:


"Sorry. You are not using Tor.

Your IP address appears to be: (My correct IP Address removed)

If you are attempting to use a Tor client, please refer to the Tor website and specifically the instructions for configuring your Tor client."


However, following another of their tests from the same page, now utilizing the one at ShowMyIP, my IP Address shows as originating from Germany, (I am in Canada), and the next time it found me located in Poland... etc.

Now I'm not complaining mind you... I am merely writing that I find your port of sufficient personal benefit to have considered posting my findings on it... and followed up... my actions being in sync with my thoughts - something of a rarity in most people today, unfortunately, most people are hypocritical. I have digressed so now I will recess.


PS
Just thought to add this addendum; searching through other search engines in the searchbar does not cause problems and using Google through the main page works fine.

[Dave Yeo]

Do you know what version of Firefox the Tor Browser Bundle uses? Also wasn't using a Firefox security hole how the FBI broke into the Silk Road?

[Jan-Erik Lärka]

Both sites for "Squid" and "Tor" contain a lot of text.

How do I make them work?!

[Ben]

Do you know what version of Firefox the Tor Browser Bundle uses? Also wasn't using a Firefox security hole how the FBI broke into the Silk Road?

Two excellent questions. Unfortunately I do not know the answer to either of them. The TOR Browser Bundle, however, is easy enough to get.

With regard to the Silk Road, that is not a topic that I would deal with, but, I do not believe that there is any browser that is secure; it is simply a question of how insecure one is versus another.

We OS/2 users, have no choice of course; nothing is current and only one is available to us.

I  mean, Firefox is funded mainly by Google who is a notorious privacy violator and is in the same league as MicroSoft... so to expect Firefox to be secure at all is to voice one's need to reanalyze their own, personal, concept of "secure"... of course MS owns the other browser of note so you are damned if you do and damned if you do not.

And there you will find another two organizations that are one masquerading as two in this regard, to give the illusion of competition in the browser market, where there is no competition at all. Look around you and do some research on the owners of Supermarket chains and Hardware chains et al, and you will see the same illusion. Once a technique is known and proven to work, they never change it. Thus, you can see it everywhere.

It is becoming more and more obvious and pretty soon, even the masses will pick on it without having to be spoonfed.

To move backwards, just look at the striking similarities to the way that both companies started out. What a joke!

[Ben]

Both sites for "Squid" and "Tor" contain a lot of text.

Hehehe. Yep!

How do I make them work?!

Another good question.

The only way that I can answer it is like this:

If I ever get the time I will write an article on it and submit it here or post it on one of my own websites and link it.

In fact, if I can find the time, I'll do the whole setup; Squid->Privoxy->Tor

If I do not get the time then I will try and do a quick and dirty, simplified install and setup. I'll copy my config files and zip the whole works together. But, it will not be this month and it depends upon the level of interest.