2006

I did get something good out of this whole fiasco. When I think of it, this blog being down for a day or so is a small price to pay for the amount of knowledge that I gained relating to setting up apache, mysql, and php… Over and Over Again.

Let me know if there are problems that you see.

I’m pretty sure that mail is all screwed up because I have no mail server, or at least I hope that I don’t (I uninstalled it).

Well that was close.

As you can probably tell, my server’s been down for about a day. A day during which almost all of my time was spent getting this server back up.

I decided to switch from Redhat based Centos 4.1 to Debian Sarge (3.1). The operating system install was extremely easy as well as the *first round* of server app installs.

I have to finish up getting the rest of this site working, but I’ll definitely post more later.

The Tor Network uses something called Onion Routing. Tor’s functionality is pretty simple. You run a daemon on a computer on your network (the tor client) and it connects to a server inside the tor network. Once your transmitted packets are inside the tor network they are routed through the different servers in a way so that no server knows the complete path that a packet takes. On top of this, all transmission inside the tor network is encrypted in order to prevent Man in the Middle Attacks.

This tutorial works with squid versions < 2.6

Many companies find proxy servers useful for a number of reasons. For example, if a company has fairly low bandwidth and needs a cheap way to streamline the distribution of frequently accessed content, a proxy server, such as squid will help a lot. Another use of a proxy server in the business world is for what I like to call, “Employee Management”. In other words, this is for companies that want to see what their employees are viewing on the internet. They can also be used by companies that have less than perfect infrastructures and need to have a way to take one connection to the internet and spread it to many computers.