This is mostly relevant for *nix users. OpenSSH has a feature that lets you setup a SOCKS proxy pretty easily. This helps work around blocked sites without too much setup overhead.
This is mostly relevant for *nix users. OpenSSH has a feature that lets you setup a SOCKS proxy pretty easily. This helps work around blocked sites without too much setup overhead.
Here’s what you do.
ssh -ND 10000 user@myserver.com
The -D flag specifies the local port that will be forwarded to the remote server. The -N flag makes sure that after the connection is made, no remote command is executed.
Now, open Firefox -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings. Select the “Manual proxy settings” option and enter localhost into SOCKS Host and 10000 into Port. Press OK. Now when you browse the internet on this instance of Firefox, the traffic should be routed through the server.
I’ve used if often to get around blocks and especially to get around local routing issues.
Remember, if your ssh connection breaks, your can’t visit any websites until you re-establish the connection. After you’re done, set the proxy settings back to the default (“Use System Proxy Settings”).
Recently, in a moment of weakness, I made an order on Etsy for custom cufflinks. I had no idea how it would turn out, so it…
Recently, in a moment of weakness, I made an order on Etsy for custom cufflinks. I had no idea how it would turn out, so it was a huge leap of faith. I got it the other day and it looks gorgeous!
For those of you wondering, I ordered it from LogiCuff. So, when can we get cufflinks on Mozilla Gear? 🙂
Last week, I was trying to fix a non-unified build bustage with glandium’s help and I kept failing to fix it in mozilla-inbound…
Last week, I was trying to fix a non-unified build bustage with glandium’s help and I kept failing to fix it in mozilla-inbound. I don’t usually build locally myself, so I had to push to Try. And there was no documentation on how-to do it. It turns out that it needs a custom mozconfig override (thanks dbaron).
You need to add ac_add_options --disable-unified-compilation to the file build/mozconfig.common.override in one of your pushes. Probably easier, if it’s the tip. We updated the wiki with this small piece of documentation.
This is mostly a note to myself. And perhaps for contributors who might search for it.
I remember arriving in Portland pretty clearly and I remember leaving. But the days in between? They’re a complete blur. It involved so many meetings and so many people.
I remember arriving in Portland pretty clearly and I remember leaving. But the days in between? They’re a complete blur. It involved so many meetings and so many people.
Over the last few months, frankly, Mozilla has eroded a lot of my trust. The keynotes on Tuesday and Wednesday won a lot of it back. The Tuesday keynotes talked about the next year at a very high level at the morning. In the afternoon, the platform meeting with dougt and jst, narrowed it down to the context of the platform team. Later in the day, the A-team and RelEng coordination meeting narrowed it down some more. Just before the start of the platform meeting, I noticed the tree was closed and Wes and I were trying to narrow down what’s wrong and trying to fix it. The good part about having everyone in one room is, I could just walk over to catlee and say, “Hey, the tree’s broken due to something that looks like RelEng, can you take a look?”. We did that later too, when Ryan just walked over and asked Rail for help, since we were all in the same room anyway. Much more responsive than IRC!
My strongest memory from Wednesday’s keynotes is jonath’s daughter’s picture. Now I know why he starts his presentations with her picture! I found Darren Herman’s talk the most memorable of the lot (Well, except for Andreas, but that’s because it’s hard to beat an entry with ‘Ride of the Valkyries’). I remember the outrage from when we introduced Sponsored Tiles as a concept. I remember hating him a bit (okay, okay, a lot) and wondering why Mozilla even hired someone like him (Sorry!). In the context of our #ChooseIndependent campaign, it makes quite a lot of sense. This also took me back to a conversation I had with a friend before I started contributing to Mozilla. My friend said that he doesn’t believe that Mozilla is useful. They are entirely funded by Google, their competitor and Google can kill them any time (In retrospect, I think this conversation drove me to contribute). This focus to try and widen our revenue stream so we’re not dependent on one source is something that I now understand.
On Thursday, the schedule looked fairly light in terms of A-team related meetings and there was an extravaganza to attend! I tried to get some work done on Who Owns What during the day. Coding at a work week didn’t seem like a productive use of time and my instincts kept fighting with me. I eventually sat down and tried to narrow down the features of a minimum viable product. gps had a session about Mercurial that helped grok the internals a bit, though I still find git easier. My best guess is, I’ve made enough mistakes with git to recover from most fuck ups. On the other hand, I work with the Mozilla trunk branches with Mercurial and I can’t risk making a mistake.
I was purely running on an extra large dose of will power on Friday. I was exhausted and craving my own bed and lots of sunlight. The AWS game night was so much fun, despite losing. And digi has an excellent career as a chaos monkey. The party. Oh dear. I have videos that need to be uploaded. And a few videos that need to be converted to gifs. I mean, who wouldn’t want a gif of potch dancing, right? I wish I had the full video of the Psycho Killer performance. It was very well done. And hell yeah, Mozillians can dress up. Hats off to the IT team, who all looked really spectacular. I didn’t even recognize cshields at first 😛
Ted had coordinated Mozlandia running groups and I had bought all this gear to run in Portland, so I had to give it a shot. The jet lag woke me up at 5 am on Tuesday, so I went out for a run at around 6 am. As I left the hotel, the receptionist warned me, “It’s awfully cold”. I didn’t fully appreciate the gravity of this until I could feel my ears freeze over and I had a bit of a coughing fit thanks to the cold air hitting my lungs. I gave up at the 3 km mark, but it was by far my fastest run ever! I hurt my shoulder that night with an awkward sleeping position, so that was it for my running at Mozlandia 🙁
PS: Cheers to Mardi and the team behind the event for having it run so smoothly!
Portland. The three words that come to mind are overwhelmed, cold, and exhilarating. Getting there was a right pain, I’d have to admit. Though, flying…
Portland. The three words that come to mind are overwhelmed, cold, and exhilarating. Getting there was a right pain, I’d have to admit. Though, flying around the US the weekend after Black Friday isn’t the best idea anyway. According to my rough calculations, it took about 25 hours from take off in Delhi to wheels down in Portland. That’s a heck a lot of time on planes and at airports. But hey, I’ve been doing this for weeks in a row at this point.
At the airport, I ran into people holding up the Mozilla board. As I waited for the shuttle, I was very happy to run into Luke, from the MDN team. We met at the summit and he was a familiar face. We were chatting all the way to the hotel about civic hacking.
This work week is the most exciting Mozilla event that I’ve attended. I’m finally getting to meet a lot of people I know and renewing friendships from the last few events. I started contributing to Mozilla by contributing to the Webdev team. My secret plan at this work week was to meet all the folks from the old Webdev team in person. I’ve known them for more than 3 years and never quite managed to meet everyone in person.
After a quick shower, I decided to step out to the Mozilla PDX. According to Google Maps, it was a quick walk away and I was trying not to sleep all day despite my body trying to convince me it was a good idea. At the office, I met Fred’s team and we sat around talking for a while. It was good to meet Christie again too! That’s when a wave of exhaustion hit. I didn’t see it coming. Suddenly, I felt sluggish and a warm bed seemed very tempting. After lunch with Jen, Sole, and Matt, I quickly retired to bed.
When I got down after the nap, there was a small group headed to the opening event. This was good, because I got very confused with Google Maps (paper maps were much more helpful).
Whoa, people overload. I walked around a few rounds meeting lots of people. It was fun running into a lot of people from IRC in the flesh. I enjoyed meeting the folks from the Auckland office (I often back them out :P). And I finally met Laura and her team. For change, I’m visiting bkero’s town this time instead of him visiting mine 😉
The rest of the evening is a bit of a blur. Eventually, I was exhausted and walked back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep before the fun really started!
