Text Mode LJ?

[sraun]

Well, THAT'S unpleasant.

Sometime between about 2PM on Wednesday and 7:30AM today, work decided
to block access to *.livejournal.com. I won't be reading LJ from work
any more, unless I can figure out how to tweak things to be able to
read it using lynx or links.

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Ugh. elinks seems to work well enough, but It'd probably annoy me.

Another possibility, if you can install software on your machine, is to use xming (assuming you're running Windows) to export an x-window browser from whatever machine you'd have run links from. (This can be tunneled through ssh, so as long as you can ssh out, you can set up an X-session from the remote box to your local box).

Good luck!

[sraun]

Remote X - both tunnelled over SSH and not - is on my list of things to accomplish sometime.
Unfortunately, I've never gotten X working directly on any of my Linux servers - they've always had graphics cards that required proprietary closed drivers that I could never get working. I've got eXceed to install a Windows box and try sometime - it's one of those things that I need a Round Tuit.
Regardless, it's not really an option from my work box - it's a rather locked down WinXP box that I don't have software install rights on.

[erik]

Go here and chose Lynx.
It will unfortunately affect your viewing style on every computer, but it will make LJ usable in Lynx.

[azurelunatic]

Or use http://www.livejournal.com/mobile/ -- even though it's intended for the mobile phone, it's perfect for browsing stripped-down and no images.

[sraun]

That's an interesting option - my main objection to it is that there's a (an even more restrictive) limit to how far back in your Friends page you can go - I didn't count, but it looks like it shows 60-80 entries and quits, with no 'show older entries' option. :-(

[azurelunatic]

It seems to be so. :( And appending ?skip=xx does not work, I just tested that. Hmm.

[sraun]

I'll probably give that a try - the other text-mode suggestion (http://www.livejournal.com/mobile/) seems to cut off your Friends page at 60-80 entries, with no option for further back (that I can see). Thanks!

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

They blocked it where I work (and Dawn as well I think) but it was unblocked again the next day.

I have a proxy server on my machine that you can use if you don't have another solution. Email me for the URL.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's been blocked where I work for months. Even more annoying, my two personal e-mail accounts (not the services behind them; I can open the log-in page but when I log in the page is blocked) were blocked a couple of years ago.

I'm *so* glad I retire in 2.5 months...

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

That just poops.

Of course I only get online at coffee break or over lunch, but the hospital's wireless network only blocks a few websites. (Unfortunately one of them is the political site I happen to webmaster.)

[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

As johnridley says happened to him, my work blocked it for a day or two and then relented. I think it happened because for a while there we had a senior manager who was 1) a nutcase and 2) had too much time on their hands and who therefore spent lots of it worrying about things that really didn't matter, and/or things that did matter but in ways entirely beyond their ken. If you're friendly with your immediate manager you might want to inquire and mention that once one takes a minute or two to look at it, one will realize that LJ bears no real resemblance to the time- and resource-wasting and network traffic hogging MySpace (which I'll be most workplaces have blocked by now for those reasons as well as others). Good luck!

[ckd]

See if my LJ layout works for you; if you want a copy of the underlying S2 source, let me know. I tweaked it to work well in Blazer, on my Palm, in either "fast" (no pics or CSS) or normal mode.

[madtechie2718.livejournal.com]

LJ was recently blocked on my hospital network too.

Fortunately, I have a gigabit connection in my office to the university as well, they are far more relaxed about such things.