Comments for KennyNet http://www.kennynet.co.uk Ramblings of a PHP developer Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:35:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on PHP, PDO & Nested Transactions by Luciano http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/02/php-pdo-nested-transactions/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Luciano Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:35:47 +0000 http://www.kennynet.co.uk/?p=38#comment-610 Perfect! Perfect!

]]> Comment on Filtering traffic through a VPN by Kenny Millington http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2010/04/14/filtering-traffic-through-vpn/comment-page-1/#comment-607 Kenny Millington Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:00:21 +0000 http://www.kennynet.co.uk/?p=113#comment-607 Thank you for taking the time to reply, it is appreciated. :-) I no longer use iPredator/relakks and I did improve the setup slightly but never updated the blog - maybe I should have. <blockquote cite="#commentbody-605"> <strong><a href="#comment-605" rel="nofollow">unsafe</a> :</strong> <p>Hi, I respect that you’ve put so much work into this, I might have done the some time ago, but you render a vpn useless. Why not buy a premium proxy instead when all you want is a proxy? Also did you know that your local proxy server most likely is even slower than apache, which is already a slow fat beast? Don’t believe? Benchmark using ab/weighttp.</p> </blockquote> Indeed. However this is only a small part of what my setup involved, I had additional routing configured such that any client using that server as a gateway would also route out over the VPN. I wasn't using this simply just as a HTTP proxy (that was more a quick FoxyProxy thing for any other machine wanting 'temporary privacy'). Plus I also like using a local proxy to be sure what headers are stripped from the HTTP requests and I most certainly do not doubt your benchmark claims. <blockquote cite="#commentbody-605"> <strong><a href="#comment-605" rel="nofollow">unsafe</a> :</strong> <p>Now the real interesting part isn’t your setup, but iptables rules.<br> Why don’t you protect yourself from vpn-disconnects using iptables instead, that happen quite often with relakks? You heard right, ipredator IS relakks, which is know to log and drop connections in the midst of downloads revealing your real ip.</p> </blockquote> Now that was always on my "TODO" list, but I didn't use it much as a HTTP proxy really and the NAT routing (which was my primary use-case) would fail if the VPN dropped so it got left at the wayside. (Good spot though!) :-) Thank you for taking the time to reply, it is appreciated. :-)

I no longer use iPredator/relakks and I did improve the setup slightly but never updated the blog – maybe I should have.

unsafe :

Hi, I respect that you’ve put so much work into this, I might have done the some time ago, but you render a vpn useless. Why not buy a premium proxy instead when all you want is a proxy? Also did you know that your local proxy server most likely is even slower than apache, which is already a slow fat beast? Don’t believe? Benchmark using ab/weighttp.

Indeed. However this is only a small part of what my setup involved, I had additional routing configured such that any client using that server as a gateway would also route out over the VPN. I wasn’t using this simply just as a HTTP proxy (that was more a quick FoxyProxy thing for any other machine wanting ‘temporary privacy’).

Plus I also like using a local proxy to be sure what headers are stripped from the HTTP requests and I most certainly do not doubt your benchmark claims.

unsafe :

Now the real interesting part isn’t your setup, but iptables rules.
Why don’t you protect yourself from vpn-disconnects using iptables instead, that happen quite often with relakks? You heard right, ipredator IS relakks, which is know to log and drop connections in the midst of downloads revealing your real ip.

Now that was always on my “TODO” list, but I didn’t use it much as a HTTP proxy really and the NAT routing (which was my primary use-case) would fail if the VPN dropped so it got left at the wayside. (Good spot though!)

:-)

]]> Comment on Filtering traffic through a VPN by unsafe http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2010/04/14/filtering-traffic-through-vpn/comment-page-1/#comment-605 unsafe Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:43:58 +0000 http://www.kennynet.co.uk/?p=113#comment-605 Hi, I respect that you've put so much work into this, I might have done the some time ago, but you render a vpn useless. Why not buy a premium proxy instead when all you want is a proxy? Also did you know that your local proxy server most likely is even slower than apache, which is already a slow fat beast? Don't believe? Benchmark using ab/weighttp. Now the real interesting part isn't your setup, but iptables rules. Why don't you protect yourself from vpn-disconnects using iptables instead, that happen quite often with relakks? You heard right, ipredator IS relakks, which is know to log and drop connections in the midst of downloads revealing your real ip. I've bought it yesterday out of boredom, should have bought an mp3 player instead, however that's my findings after a day. Hi, I respect that you’ve put so much work into this, I might have done the some time ago, but you render a vpn useless. Why not buy a premium proxy instead when all you want is a proxy? Also did you know that your local proxy server most likely is even slower than apache, which is already a slow fat beast? Don’t believe? Benchmark using ab/weighttp.

Now the real interesting part isn’t your setup, but iptables rules.
Why don’t you protect yourself from vpn-disconnects using iptables instead, that happen quite often with relakks? You heard right, ipredator IS relakks, which is know to log and drop connections in the midst of downloads revealing your real ip.

I’ve bought it yesterday out of boredom, should have bought an mp3 player instead, however that’s my findings after a day.

]]> Comment on Dead Space with Arrow Keys! by lacywest http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/22/dead-space-with-arrow-keys/comment-page-3/#comment-595 lacywest Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:10:22 +0000 http://www.kennynet.co.uk/?p=68#comment-595 I read and read here ... other than trying to use Glovepie ... if I cant sit at my chair and have my right hand on my mouse and move forward and zap the baddies with my right hand's left finger ... I have no desire to play this game ... its eating up space on my hard drive ... it's going bye bye ... Dead Space 2 ... there is a update patch for it ... and it does address people who want to use the mouse RMB to move forward ... cheers to EA for that patch ... I just finished Crysis 2 a few days ago ... I'm looking forward to finding another game to play now ... :-) I read and read here … other than trying to use Glovepie … if I cant sit at my chair and have my right hand on my mouse and move forward and zap the baddies with my right hand’s left finger … I have no desire to play this game … its eating up space on my hard drive … it’s going bye bye … Dead Space 2 … there is a update patch for it … and it does address people who want to use the mouse RMB to move forward … cheers to EA for that patch … I just finished Crysis 2 a few days ago … I’m looking forward to finding another game to play now … :-)

]]> Comment on Dead Space with Arrow Keys! by Leonidas http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/22/dead-space-with-arrow-keys/comment-page-3/#comment-594 Leonidas Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:52:11 +0000 http://www.kennynet.co.uk/?p=68#comment-594 @Rolling Sten Great work. THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! :) @Rolling Sten
Great work. THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! :)

]]> Comment on Dead Space with Arrow Keys! by Elina Porres http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/22/dead-space-with-arrow-keys/comment-page-2/#comment-581 Elina Porres Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:58:30 +0000 http://www.kennynet.co.uk/?p=68#comment-581 "<a href="http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/22/dead-space-with-arrow-keys/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/22/dead-space-with-arrow-keys/</a>" Now we can talk! “http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/22/dead-space-with-arrow-keys/” Now we can talk!

]]> Comment on asterisk cdr_mysql on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) by Yhhppzwl http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/08/asterisk-cdr_mysql-on-ubuntu-804-hardy/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Yhhppzwl Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:18:16 +0000 http://www.kennynet.co.uk/?p=53#comment-572 love letter japanese, love letter japanese,

]]> Comment on Dead Space with Arrow Keys! by Bastard Child http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/22/dead-space-with-arrow-keys/comment-page-2/#comment-568 Bastard Child Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:05:37 +0000 http://www.kennynet.co.uk/?p=68#comment-568 And a detailed post on how to change it: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/0/7296595.page#15657528 And a detailed post on how to change it:

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/0/7296595.page#15657528

]]> Comment on Dead Space with Arrow Keys! by Bastard Child http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/22/dead-space-with-arrow-keys/comment-page-2/#comment-567 Bastard Child Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:01:18 +0000 http://www.kennynet.co.uk/?p=68#comment-567 Kenny you rock! I've just gotten around to installing Dead Space 1, here's what I've found so far: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag32LstLOkLwdEtOTkI5Tmh3SjhCRlIzRkNhbHBYMnc Kenny you rock!

I’ve just gotten around to installing Dead Space 1, here’s what I’ve found so far:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag32LstLOkLwdEtOTkI5Tmh3SjhCRlIzRkNhbHBYMnc

]]> Comment on Dead Space with Arrow Keys! by Gift http://www.kennynet.co.uk/2008/12/22/dead-space-with-arrow-keys/comment-page-2/#comment-566 Gift Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:47:38 +0000 http://www.kennynet.co.uk/?p=68#comment-566 U rock, dude. Thanks. U rock, dude. Thanks.

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