Re: Using a Proxy on VM
 

Pah, reasonable leased line? We have multiple 10 GigE links over dark fibre. xD [/my-company's-connection-is-bigger-than-your-company's-connection-epeen]

To be honest most companies would frown upon using corporate resources for personal YouTube watching at home hence I prefer having my own VPN/Proxy/Server(s). That, and how will you ever get your streaming fix if you get fired :P

Most end users would be better off just paying £5 a month to a proper commercial provider. They're not expensive.

Re: Using a Proxy on VM
 

This is all very true and you are right about most companies. I'm fortunate that my boss is pretty sound and there's only one other guy at the company who has any idea how any of the systems work. And he's worse than me!

Of course, there's also a lesson in not taking the ****, either.

Re: Using a Proxy on VM
 

Open back door? I'm sure an SYSadmin can set up one of those ;)

Re: Using a Proxy on VM
 

Personally I have vpn services and also run my own on some servers.

Cgi proxies are easy for anyone to use without any prior setup, as you just go to a url and that alone can be enough to get around routing issues sometimes. Google and you shall find but as you never know who runs them it's not good to login to sites using them.

You can make your own proxy using google servers if you have a google account, using their app engine. A lot of cgi proxies are appearing this way now as it's free, good servers and unlimited bandwidth. For those who want to make their own and can follow instructions: http://techblogcloud.com/make-web-proxy-server/

Re: Using a Proxy on VM
 

I thought CGI proxies only worked for static web content?

Re: Using a Proxy on VM
 

Most of them are actually php proxies these days but often listed as cgi proxies. Not something I often used but not had issues with dynamic content.

Some disable (or don't supposrt) POST requests so you can't use them to enter stuff in sites, only read. Something you would notice fairly quickly if you used one heavily.