Comments on: 20,000 Leagues Under the [South China] Sea

Question: 20,000 Leagues Under the [South China] Sea

mdonley — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:59:24 -0800

UnderseaCablesFilter: I am in Indonesia and I cannot access my Gmail account through normal means post-Taiwan earthquake.

Many other international websites (*cough*) are available, and I can even see a "preview" of my inbox (with content from new messages, even!) by logging into the "personalized homepage" through the Google New Zealand portal (google.com/.co.id/.co.uk, etc. won't load), but I can't read the entirety of the messages: clicking on the preview box/previewed messages leads to this error message:

"The following error was encountered:

* Connection Failed

The system returned:

(65) No route to host

The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again."

I'm at an internet cafe where I can't install any new software and there's no desktop e-mail program like Outlook on this computer. Ideas?

By: moochoo

moochoo — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:18:16 -0800

http://www.cgi-proxy.net/
http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml

By: killyb

killyb — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:22:13 -0800

do you have the ability to download and run torpark? download and unzip it to a flash drive or the desktop..

http://www.torrify.com/

if you have access to the proxy settings you could look for a free proxy server to try getting around any problems...

also check out using google as a proxy
http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/4807

and lastly

http://www.thefreesite.com/Anonymous_Freebies/

By: killyb

killyb — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:25:16 -0800

also...if you have access to an rdp app...which may be SUPER useless slow for you...i could make an account on my rdp server and you'd have basically a computer to use

By: mdonley

mdonley — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:36:17 -0800

I can't download anything. The proxy links above aren't letting me sign into my account or view "secure" (past the sign-in page) information. Maybe I'm just hosed.

By: killyb

killyb — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:39:19 -0800

i'd be happy to login and check your mail and post somewhere, but i understand that may not be desirable...actually
got a mobile phone....if so you can access gmail from your mobile!!!

By: mdonley

mdonley — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:51:46 -0800

Haha, thanks killyb - but I went with the "long battery life and no features" mobile back when I was equipping myself for a year in the tropics...nothing on there is crucial, and I hope it'll be up tomorrow. Thanks folks!

By: Skorgu

Skorgu — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:32:00 -0800

I may be able to set up a quick and dirty tunnel if you're still interested, gmail in profile.

By: Skorgu

Skorgu — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:33:21 -0800

. . . wow I really did just type that. I guess I'll watch this thread then :)

By: Skorgu

Skorgu — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:53:42 -0800

Actually, you may want to try the "Basic HTML" link at the bottom of the gmail page, that turns off all of the fancy ajax that gmail does, may help.