One and a Half Cheers for the BBC
Time for some catching up on the world of technology and I find a number of interesting developments have passed me by including progress by the BBC on making the iPlayer available on Mac and Linux.
Something for me to play with over the Christmas break – I have a MacBook running OSX natively with Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP installs on it running under VMWare Fusion so can try the user experience on all three platforms side by side.
As some of the holiday season involves being out of the UK, then some jiggery-pokery may be required for me to appear to be a UK user for the BBC’s purposes or they won’t let me access the service at all. Ah, I sense a few happy hours of figuring out how to set up SSH tunnels back to a computer in London ahead of me and find this strangely attractive as a break from many hours of politicking…
1) Install privoxy or squid on remote_server
2) ssh -L 3128:localhost:3128 user@remote_server (You can do this through putty or on the command line if you’re in a unix-like environment).
3) Point web browser to use localhost port 3128 as it’s proxy.
I /think/ you’d need to modify squid’s configuration file to allow it to accept connections from the local machine…
David.