Random Musings

Twitter has the latest updates on safe-proxy servers for those inside IRAN wishing to get out and publish about the current events.

Current list is as follows (19:48 on Monday 15th June 2009):

218.128.112.18:8080
218.206.94.132:808
218.253.65.99:808
219.50.16.70:8080

WHOIS reveals that these IP addresses are NOT inside IRAN and therefore are unlikely to be shut down as part of the signal jamming referred to in a bbc post found @ http://bit.ly/11YBNo

If you want to help, search for #Iranelection @ http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Iranelection

There are calls for a DDOS on the Iranian Gov’t Servers. I think this is a bad idea as it is using fire to fight fire IMHO.

[UPDATE]

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%22Functioning%20Iran%22  <– follow this tag for the list of functioning IRAN proxies.

“The French national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Windows platform to Linux. Estimated to have already saved the force 50 Million Euros, the migration is due to be completed on all 90,000 workstations by 2015. Of the move, Lt. Col. Guimard had this comment: ‘”Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users,” said Lt. Col. Guimard. “Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority.”‘”

LOL @ “Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority.”‘”

http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/be-my-hive-brain/

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