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What is the easiest and most virus/malware free way of using a proxy to access a web site? I'm looking for something that a not very technically minded person would be able to use. Dismas| (talk) 10:12, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
It's for some people who are in Hong Kong to use to reach a site here in the US. I am not in HK, so I need something that I can walk them through at a distance. The users are getting server time out errors (from a couple different locations within HK) but that's all I have as far as what is keeping them from getting to the site. I've spoken to the US host and they claim that going through a proxy will solve the problem. Dismas| (talk) 19:22, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Tor is just one download away: https://www.torproject.org/ . Be aware that many Tor exit nodes (free proxies in general) snoop your traffic. -- 81.175.225.92 ( talk) 23:16, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I would like to replace the ichthys symbol at the end of my signature with a coda symbol, but it doesn't seem to be rendering the unicode. Anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks! Ditch ∝ 15:25, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
While I'm here: Is there an app or browser setting that will disable videos from auto-playing when the window launches? Short of keeping my system volume on mute, my current method is to keep a mental list of websites that do this, and avoid them. But that's not really practical. Local news affiliates seem particular egregious in doing this. I need to have the volume on for work, as keeping up with current news reports is part of my job, but it's very annoying and embarrassing in the office when I click to a story, and get a loud TMZ report about Kim Cardasian, rather than the health care reform story I am researching. PS- I am not particular about what browser I use while at work, so any will do if they have this functionality. Thanks! Ditch ∝ 15:38, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I am an Arab and I was using Google Chrome in Arabic, but it turned to English automatically, and I do not know how it returned to Arab -- ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 ( talk) 17:08, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
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What is the easiest and most virus/malware free way of using a proxy to access a web site? I'm looking for something that a not very technically minded person would be able to use. Dismas| (talk) 10:12, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
It's for some people who are in Hong Kong to use to reach a site here in the US. I am not in HK, so I need something that I can walk them through at a distance. The users are getting server time out errors (from a couple different locations within HK) but that's all I have as far as what is keeping them from getting to the site. I've spoken to the US host and they claim that going through a proxy will solve the problem. Dismas| (talk) 19:22, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Tor is just one download away: https://www.torproject.org/ . Be aware that many Tor exit nodes (free proxies in general) snoop your traffic. -- 81.175.225.92 ( talk) 23:16, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I would like to replace the ichthys symbol at the end of my signature with a coda symbol, but it doesn't seem to be rendering the unicode. Anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks! Ditch ∝ 15:25, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
While I'm here: Is there an app or browser setting that will disable videos from auto-playing when the window launches? Short of keeping my system volume on mute, my current method is to keep a mental list of websites that do this, and avoid them. But that's not really practical. Local news affiliates seem particular egregious in doing this. I need to have the volume on for work, as keeping up with current news reports is part of my job, but it's very annoying and embarrassing in the office when I click to a story, and get a loud TMZ report about Kim Cardasian, rather than the health care reform story I am researching. PS- I am not particular about what browser I use while at work, so any will do if they have this functionality. Thanks! Ditch ∝ 15:38, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I am an Arab and I was using Google Chrome in Arabic, but it turned to English automatically, and I do not know how it returned to Arab -- ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 ( talk) 17:08, 4 August 2013 (UTC)