Shallow and Pedantic

Tunelling even more stuff over SSH

Today at the CS department of the Technion is a particularily Bad Network Day (TM) for laptop users; none of the wired connections at the farm work, and wireless doesn’t seem to working for HTTP at all.

It does, however, work for SSH. Ka-ching!

Tunneling your browser over SSH is a pretty simple affair – SSH into somewhere which has a decent connection, and use the -D9999 flag (9999 works, but it can be any 16-bit number over 1024). Then, configure your browser to work over a SOCKS proxy at 127.0.0.1:9999.

How do you, however, get other things to work over that tunnel? There’s an excellent program called dante-client (that’s an apt package, folks. if you can’t apt-get due to your network situation, get it at packages.ubuntu.com or packages.debian.org). Install it, and make sure /etc/dante.conf has the following lines:

route {
        from: 0.0.0.0/0   to: 0.0.0.0/0   via: 127.0.0.1 port = 9999
        protocol: tcp
        proxyprotocol: socks_v4 socks_v5
}

Then, run socksify whatever-you-want-to-do. For example, sudo socksify apt-get install something. Or perhaps socksify ssh somewhere. Or sudo wget something. Or socksify git do-something-awesome. (All of the above work for me)

Valgrind Fail

I neglected to post this here somehow, it’s about a month old by now…

The problem turned out to be an imprecise (false-positve) comparison operator implemented for a class used as a hash key. God, I hate C++.

Scheduling

So, I see I forgot to post my schedule for this semester…

As you can see, it’s TTime! With a shiny new Cairo interface. We’re back to the Ruby version, too – as we have another coder on board, which is using his compilation skills in order to write a new REPY parser.

You can also see it’s only found one schedule. This is thanks to the group selection constraint which was finally coded. Yes, that’s a link to the Github repository for TTime. You’re welcome to help write some constraints