set-up difficulties

[Paul Oldham]

On Tue, September 9, 2008 17:32, hjenkins said:

> Hello, all,

Wotcha, welcome aboard.

> I just moved to Cambridge two weeks ago. Sorry that my first mailing list
> post is a request for help, but I've just gotten a connection for my
> (Gentoo Linux) laptop in my university department, and I'm having some
> difficulties.
>
> It seems that nearly every port save 80 & 110 is blocked, but there are
> also some problems which seem to stem from other restrictions. rsync,
> webrsync, SMTP, XMPP, and ping don't work.

Oh lord. How much of a pain is this for you? There is a solution that
comes to mind but it costs: get a little server, set up a VPN to the
server and then you're home free - you just route your traffic through the
VPN. But you're going to be talking UKP17.50 a month or thereabouts even
for a Virtual Machine. We use Bytemark[1] for our VM servers and they're
pretty solid but they're not the only people in the game.

> Secondly, are you actively holding meetings? If so, when?

I think so, but I've never been ...

-- 
Paul

[1] http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/r/hug