cui ruide Posted September 27, 2009 at 04:10 AM Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 at 04:10 AM I'm having trouble getting "fg" to work. Most of the time it won't even connect, but when it does the pages never finish loading. I was prompted for a while to update (I have 6.82), but I never did. Could this be related? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Horhe Posted September 27, 2009 at 05:27 AM Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 at 05:27 AM Try "dleihs topstoh eerfrohcna" spelled backwards - it works fine with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougou Posted September 27, 2009 at 09:15 AM Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 at 09:15 AM Try "dleihs topstoh eerfrohcna" spelled backwards - it works fine with me.That's interesting, mine stopped working a couple of days ago.gato's advice worked for me, though, so I am now using that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted September 29, 2009 at 12:33 PM Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 at 12:33 PM I'm having trouble getting "fg" to work The newer version won't work any better. There is a good summary of the current situation here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted September 29, 2009 at 12:46 PM Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 at 12:46 PM There is a good summary of the current situation here. Sounds like the end of the Internet as we know it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Horhe Posted September 29, 2009 at 02:52 PM Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 at 02:52 PM I'm assuming - hoping, to be honest - that things will loosen up after they've had their Communist party (no pun intended). That's interesting, mine stopped working a couple of days ago. Weird, I can still use mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted September 29, 2009 at 11:27 PM Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 at 11:27 PM Port-forwarding over SSH FTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wushijiao Posted September 30, 2009 at 12:01 AM Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 at 12:01 AM I'm assuming - hoping, to be honest - that things will loosen up after they've had their Communist party (no pun intended) Nice pun. They might relax things in mid-October, but then again, they've institutionalized many of the Olympics security related procedures, so I'm not so hopeful. If you like living in China but don't want to put up with many of the annoyances, you can always consider moving to HK, where Facebook and other sites work like a charm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuawbb Posted September 30, 2009 at 01:05 AM Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 at 01:05 AM Blue Dam sounds pretty scary. Gato pretty much summed it up. What does everyone think? The workaround Gato posted in the Witopia review thread worked like a charm (thank you), though I'm not so knowledgeable about proxy addresses, etc, so I'm not quite sure where to find other proxies. The one shown in the thread worked fine though it seems to have been blocked now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wushijiao Posted September 30, 2009 at 01:51 AM Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 at 01:51 AM Take a look at Rebecca MacKinnon's recent article (if you can), it sounds really bad: http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/09/chinas-censorship-arms-race-escalates.html I don't think anything she's writing about sounds temporary at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted September 30, 2009 at 05:54 AM Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 at 05:54 AM Take a look at Rebecca MacKinnon's recent article (if you can) It's also here, unblocked. While they may reopen certain sites, there is no way they are going to reopen Freegate and/or Tor etc. just so we can get to where they don't want us to get to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted September 30, 2009 at 07:53 AM Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 at 07:53 AM (edited) The workaround Gato posted in the Witopia review thread worked like a charm (thank you), though I'm not so knowledgeable about proxy addresses, etc, so I'm not quite sure where to find other proxies. The one shown in the thread worked fine though it seems to have been blocked now. I found the proxies using LotusProxy, which is able to download a list of proxies from a server somewhere (not sure exactly how or where) and test them one by one. I'll post some more proxies later tonight if LotusProxy is still working. EDIT: The FG + proxy method doesn't seem to work, any more. The latest version of FG version 6.89ub5 (beta 5) is just out, released on Sept. 30, 2009. http://rapidshare.com/files/286957450/fg689ub5.exe Give it a shot. It's working for me. Just be patient while it tries to connect. China doesn't spend billions of dollars on the Golden Shield Project for nothing.... Edited September 30, 2009 at 03:49 PM by gato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlinda_yuya Posted October 2, 2009 at 08:20 PM Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 at 08:20 PM What about paid VPN such as strongvpn.com anybody use that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy-meiguoren Posted October 3, 2009 at 11:42 PM Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 at 11:42 PM Could the ban have something to do with this? There's a certain mafia game on Facebook which I've seen quite a few Chinese play. It might be part of the reason, but I think there's more to it than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy-meiguoren Posted October 4, 2009 at 08:04 PM Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 at 08:04 PM Maybe "Crazy Taxi" was mistaken for a driver training course? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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