Chatter Of The Squirrel

International Link Is Down

December 27, 2006 on 11:56 pm | In Me! | 1 Comment

Richter 7.1 earthquake in Southern Taiwan. APCN2 (Asia Pacific Cable Network) submarine cables are messed up.

Everyone in the region is messed up, and will have difficulty accessing to international websites. All your Hotmails and Yahoos and GMails are gonna be messed up.

Thankfully though, that the ICQ, YM, MSN networks are also dead to us as a result. Else I’ld be up to my armpits with “Help ME!!!!!”s from people who think of me only when I can be useful to them.

Depending on how long it takes the cables to be repaired, I may get a few quiet evenings where I can paint without being interrupted by IM’s…

But… for those of you who are sweet enough to remember me, and thought of checking out my blog in the midst of this crisis…

Read: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/388137

This chap is nice enough to open up a proxy for us to use in the mean time.

How do you use this proxy?

Open I.E.
Menu -> Tools -> Internet Options…
[Connections]
[Settings...]
Under Proxy Server: [Tick]Use a proxy server for this connection.
Address: my1.doubleukay.com Port: 3128
[OK]

…OR…

Open Firefox
Menu -> Tools -> Options
[Network]
[Settings]
[Button] Manual Proxy Configuration
HTTP Proxy: my1.doubleukay.com Port: 3128

And your internation web surfing will be very much improved.

Remember that you’ll have to set everything back when the cable is fixed.