1:06 am

How to Set up your own Proxy Server

Lot´s of people complain that Web Proxys are not working at their Works / Schools computer because they have been banned by administrators. A way around this would be to setup your very own proxy server that is being hosted a) by a free web hosting service that supports either php or cgi or b) your own website that is being hosted by a web hosting company.

Both methods should work and I will walk you right through the installation process for both scripts and give you tips how to find out what is actually being blocked. Before we start you need to download a copy of phpproxy or cgiproxy depending on what you want and can use. You also could perform a search for free web hosting on google for instance and try to find a web host that supports one of the two languages, a good site that I found while searching for those terms might be freewebspace.net

1. phpproxy

Download phpproxy and unpack it to a local directory on your hard drive. All you need to do know is to upload the script to your webspace and open up the new url to check if its working allright. You might want to rename the file to something different, something that does not contain the word proxy in it to avoid filters that ban everything that has the word “proxy” in it.

You could open up the script and enter your clients ip in there to make sure that only your client will be able to connect or you could add a .htaccess file to the directory forcing everyone who wants to start the script to enter a username and password. Again, use google if you like to find out more information about .htaccess

The php script has some requirements, make sure you read the readme file which is included and check to see if your hoster has those requirements enabled.

2. cgiproxy

Your hoster has to have cgi enabled in order to run this script. Many free hosters do not offer cgi or only some preinstalled scripts. Make sure it is enabled before you start the installation process.

First, download the source and unpack it to a local directory.

Now, open the .cgi file and take a look at the configuration. You can edit lots of settings from within, for example you could configure the script that way that it only allows text to go through the proxy but no images. Everything is explained in detail and all options are explained with comments, browse through the file, edit the options to your liking and save the new file.

After that upload the script to your cgi directory if that is required by your hoster and open the url from your browser. You are now ready to browse the web anonymously, to check if that is really the case load a website like whatismyip.com as the first site and check if the ip matches with the server the script is installed and not your computers ip. If that is the case you´ve done everything right and can surf anonymously. (there are still ways to find out your ip, just in case you are wondering)

3. What is being blocked ?

a) If you can access the proxy from the client they only block domains / ips.
b) If you can´t access the proxy they might be banning filenames that contain proxy as well, try changing the filename.


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8:58 am

Dulu-dulu, Abah Cerita

Abah pergi jumpa kawan-kawan baya Abah. Datang seorang anak muda. Berceramah tentang keindahan syurga dan azab neraka. Selepas dia habis berceramah, Abah angkat tangan dan tanya, “Kau beriya-iya cerita pasal syurga dan neraka ni kenapa? Kau baru balik dari sana, ke?”

Abah tambah, “Bukanlah salah kau nak bercerita pasal agama. Pasal syurga dan neraka. Tapi kau bayangkanlah. Kami ni dah dengar cerita tu beratus-ratus kali sejak kecik lagi. Dah habih pulun dah! Kau tu masih muda. Apalah salahnya kalau kau bagi ceramah tentang hal-hal yang boleh membuatkan manusia berfikir. Sebagai contoh, aplikasi dari Surah Al-Fiil. Bagaimana kita boleh aplikasi dan sesuaikan peristiwa tentera bergajah dan burung-burung Ababil dengan dunia kita hari ni. Janganlah jumud sangat. Islam bukan takat nak cerita syurga neraka aje. Islam tu kan luas. Cerita-cerita zaman dulu yang disampaikan kepada kita, nak buat kita berfikir. Yang penting untuk kita zaman sekarang ni, macam mana kita nak majukan diri, bangsa dan negara. Kalau dari dulu dok bertumpu cerita tang tu aja, tak dak inisiatif nak berfikir lebih dari apa yang disampaikan dan cuba pahamkan maksud di sebalik cerita tu, sampai la fikiran kita tak berkembang!”

Sekian cerita Abah.


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11:50 am

Xunlei English - Thunder 5 Translation Pack


I’m not sure how many of you out there actually uses XunLei or Thunder 5 as your download manager. Well, i have to say, it’s not just any download manager. It’s definitely super fast, both for direct leeching and torrent downloading. While i’ve been a loyal user of uTorrent, i do reckon that XunLei can be super fast when downloading torrent files from international sites like Mininova, Isohunt or Demonoid. And of course, XunLei’s portal (powered by Gougou) also provide links to various torrent files (particularly for chinese-related content, music, TV series, movies).

Well, thanks to the efforts by HeHeHunter, he has made available the language pack. Since he has retired from blogging, i’m worried that his hard-edited language pack will be gone, so i took the liberty to post it here again. Of course, all credits goes to him! If you have not have XUNLEI or Thunder 5, please download it from here first.

So click the button below to Download Xunlei 5 English Translation pack. While it is not 100%, you get to use the common features in English and feel free to edit it from time to time and share it.

Below are my personal reviews on XunLei:

  • The speed is amazingly fast.
  • If you’re downloading a torrent with a list of files, especially full episodes from a TV Series, you’ll notice that XunLei will always make sure it download the files according to the rank or sequence. Meaning you get to watch Episode 1 when Episode 2 is still downloading.
  • Always disable UPNP and use the default TCP port (80) to achieve better download speed.
  • XunLei is only in Chinese. Despite that, English translation file is available thanks for the effort of HeHehunter. Do visit his site for the file.
  • Despite its speed, XunLei only work on public trackers as it functions as a “spoof” HTTP reader. Some private trackers will not allow this for security purposes.
  • If you’re downloading from a tracker with ratio limit, XunLei is not recommended as the seeding (uploading) speed can be very slow, hence lower your sharing ratio.
  • XunLei can consume a lot of memory when you’re downloading too many files and it doesn’t integrate well with other download manager.

Download Now!

How to install Xunlei Translation Files:

  1. 1. Unzip the downloaded file.
  2. 2. Copy it to the languages folder.
  3. 3. Eg. C:\Program Files\Thunder\Languages
  4. 4. Start Thunder/Xunlei
  5. 5. Click the third option, ??(V)
  6. 6. Language, then click the version of translation that you wish to use.
  7. 7. eg. EN_v1.3
  8. 8. Done!

Enjoy!



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