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SSH Tunnel for Web Browsing Freedom and More Ever been using the Internet somewhere where theres a firewall or web filter in place keeping you from browsing your favorite sites?  If you have a secure shell (ssh) server setup at home (or at a hosting site) you can easily use it to proxy all of your web browsing activity, bypassing most types of obstacles that would likely be in your way. For the purposes of this post, lets assume that youre running an out-of-the-box installation of OpenSSH server on a linux system, with the configuration files located in the /etc/ssh directory.  The most useful parameter in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file is the "Port" setting.  By default, its set to 22, which is the standard port for ssh.  In most situations where your web browsing traffic is being filtered, port 22 is likely being blocked as well, so that doesnt help us too much.  You can change the line to Port 443 in order to have the ssh server listen on a port that is l...

Software Freedom Day 2009 Software Freedom Day is a world wide celebration of Software Independence. Open Source community gathered together to celebrate the event. Here in the Philippines, one of the organizers is the Bluepoint Foundation, this was held last September 19, 2oo9 at the National Computer Center, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City. The event was attended by more than 500 delegates from different colleges and universities in the Philippines, there were many who would like to attend SFD 2009 but due to a limitted capacity of the NCC to accomodate such big crowd, late online registrants were not able to attend this big event. The event was done simultaneously in three different locations at the NCC, one happened at the Audio Visual Room, the other one happened at the seminar room and another one at the overflow area which is located at the NCC lobby. At 8:30 in the morning guided by the programme timeframe, as one of the organizers team member, we started the...