news.software.readers

On 7/30/2007, Frank Slootweg posted this:
> Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>> On 7/29/2007, Mike Dee posted this:
>>> Gene E. Bloch wrote:

[... enough already :-) ]

>> I maintain that the site you linked to asks me to change things on the
>> host machine. I don't own that machine or have any physical or software
>> access to it. Period. As I said, I don't even know whether it runs
>> Linux, as asked for on said site.
>>
>> I am not sure whether S/W on a stick[1], properly configured as
>> suggested by that site, would be allowed to run on the locked-out OS of
>> the laptop, but prudence (not Prudence, BTW :-)) dictates that I don't
>> try.
>>
>> [1] Geez, that sounds like a lollipop or Dove Bar :-)
>
> Don't worry about it, Gene! The 'solution' on the site needs a
> *public* network connection from the locked-down machine to your own
> private (as in you own it) machine, but, as you said, the locked down
> machine doesn't *have* any *public* network connection, only the
> employer's VPN.
>
> So as far as you're concerned, this 'solution' is Catch-22, . if
> you could use it, you don't need it.
>
> BTW, the 'solution' on the site doesn't need any changes to the
> locked-down/employer's machine. Everything is done on/from the USB
> stick. What you think is "the host machine" is actually *your*
> (private/ownded) system, which you *can* change. In the examples that
> system is a Linux system, which probably causes the confusion.
>
> So there are actually *three* systems when this setup is used: 1) the
> locked-down system from which you *want* to access system 3 but *can't*,
> 2) your own/private/home/ system which is used as a go-between
> (between system 1 and 3) and 3) the system you want to access, . in
> this discussion some News server.
>
> I hope this clears things up somewhat.

:-)

I find myself needing to wipe the drool from my chin after trying to
connect all these dots.

It is still a bit confusing, but of course I could go back and try to
reread the site in question armed with your information. You are right
that I interpreted the site to be referring to the machine I was trying
to use to read news, plus the host of a VPN running Linux, and nothing
else.

Anyway, it's moot - I have some intellectual curiosity here, but not
enough to go much further with this. Especially given that I am
definitely an outsider in the given situation.

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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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