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Well for the past 5 years I have worked from home. Now my boss has been told that I must work from a corporate office. Fortunately he has persuaded the local factory site 6 miles away to house me rather that a 80 mile/day commute to my former office site that evicted me all those years ago.

So what is office etiquette these days, am I allowed to fart in the office? use of the corporate network is monitored so I guess I can no longer spend all day with an open .org window.

So monday it is, brush off the suit and back to the mill.

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Squid Proxy and HTTP Tunnelled through SSH are your (and my) friends here Tim.

And if port 22 is locked down - just find one that isnt :)

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You can set up a SSH tunnel though PuTTY too. In fact, you can set up a SOCKS proxy though PuTTY and configure Firefox to route certain sites though it, using a proxy.pac file.

I'm happy to explain how to do this, but only to the technically minded who already understand the concepts.

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I use Opera for the "above board" stuff, and Firefox for my NSFW stuff :)

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wow so many things i dont understand

bad luck tim! still, could be worse! :cool:

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There, there love, just go back to sitting in the corner looking pretty :)

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I think Soulkiss is experimenting with a new geek extreme sport - your challenge this week: set up a multi point VPN whilst walking through this minefield and getting simultaneously ripped a new one :D

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I don't think I need to go to extreme geekness, I already have a VPN between work and home. So turning on squid on a home box is not difficult so just point my proxy setting and out of sight of the corporate monitoring tools.

So just off to read about proxy.pac, sounds like the answer to some of my other problems

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Turn up sometime arround 10 after a 60mile commute arround the M25
Wear whatever you want to, i'm sat in Jeans/Teeshirt & Jumper today.
Leave arround 4:30 to avoid traffic or after 6:30.

Seems to work for me, but I think I got lucky with the working hours/conditions*.

*Whist this might sound great, being on call one week in 3, having to drive to various datacenters whenever required, and working odd hours with Americans & Australians whenever things need to be done, useally working at home after hours at least 2 times a week, and having Americans who don't get timezones call you at 2am randomly, its not as good as it sounds.

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This is what I used to do when I was office based, VPN to my wee Netgear broadband router then wake on LAN to start my home PC and remote desktop to it. I wanted access to the whole machine, not just web browsing though.

PS: still sitting in my dressing gown