Freedom

In my previous blog I have mentioned about your-freedom.It is a pretty good software used for tunneling, and its GUI does help a lot.Generally the GCJ package available in most of the Linux distros( Fedora and Debian in particular ) do not support the your-freedom applet as well as the Sun's JDK package.Download the latest JDK edition from the Sun's home page.follow the instructions given on that page.

Follow the given instructions in order to make your-freedom work on ur PC

• I assume that you have installed it in /usr/local/java/
  
• type /usr/local/java/jdk1.5/bin/java -jar your-freedom-folder/freedom.jar

You can set an alias for the full command .Aliases are shortcuts, you can assign any command to perform a given task, more on aliases later.Open ~/.bashrc file and add the following line

alias x='/usr/local/java/jdk1.5/bin/java -jar your-freedom-folder/freedom.jar'

The above command adds x in your commands list.Next time you open your terminal u just need to type "x".You need not ype x , you can put any other character as well , but make sure that its not a system command.

Open gaim and in preferences change the proxy settings to SOCKS 5 and the server address as 127.0.0.1 and port 1080.In the yahoo pager address port you have to add 119 , and select proxy settings as SOCKS5

Thats it over your gaim is up and running.

Your Freedom and Tunneling

In my campus access to several ports have been blocked via the proxy servers. in general this problem can be easily overcome by using something callled tunneling.One can always forward ports through SSH by tunneling.One software that dose it pretty easily is corkscrew.Debian users can easily obtain it by typing

apt-get install corkscrew

After one install corkscrew, the ~/.ssh/config file needs to be edited( and created in case it dosen't exist). Add the following lines in the ~/.ssh/config file:

Host *
ProxyCommand corkscrew proxy_server port %h %p


the host * command specifies that this is meant for all users,in case if you wanna use it only for present user remove this line. Replace the proxy_server with the name of the proxy server in use and the corresponding port. Once it is done , one has to just type

ssh server_address

Server address refers to the host you wanna ssh through HTTP tunneling.


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now y am i writing all this crap.man is the laziest creature on Earth(at least me).If you download the java package of your-freedom from the site your-freedom.net you can peacefully execute the tunneling job and it can be easily used for IM clients.Dowload the file and unzip it.Browse to the folder and type the following command
java -jar freedom.jar

in order to make it happen u need to have latest version of Sun JDK/JRE/SDK.The GCJ package which comes by default with the OS cannot handle the java work(Especially Debian and Fedora).Once you have done it ..... it will ask you the proxy settings and other things.When it is run for the first time it dose take a lot of time to look foe servers..so plz don't press the panic button in case u don't c ne thing happening........
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TO BE CONTINUED.................

y2k6

This is my first blog of the year ..... hopefully I shall put up a lot more blogs than last year ..... new year new dreams and the same reult ..... I guess these things sound familiar .... every time at the begining .... hope to convert my words into action