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- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -6/+72Oh come on. You think the boss isn't using this in case one of the employees walks in.
- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+65Well at least your feeling the Christmas spirit.
Funny thing is I am an employer and I could care less if an employee spends half of the time on digg. What I do care about is performance. Do you do the work that needs to be done (or more)? Do you come up with good ideas? Do your fellow employees like you? Do you participate and contribute in company meetings? You can be prompt and never miss a day, always be hard at work an never surf digg on company time. But if you can't do those things what good are you for an employee? - LustHog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39Dude, get a life. We're at work for a huge bulk of our lives. Don't be more of a zombie than you have to be.
- MightyGiant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Oh WorkFriendly? You mean the 4th most dugg story of all time? http://digg.com/software/Tired_of_prying_eyes_at_work
- modiggs1976, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Hey digging stories is hard work. I spent an hour looking for gems like this amid billions of stories about Zelda Wii mods.
- roastedbagel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Actually my work doesn't really mind if I'm on Digg. Rather this site then youtube or something.
- jtjdt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Actually, Digg looks like a work related site (when you aren't browsing videos) and it's hard for co-workers/supervisors to tell the difference. They mostly look for things like Myspace and Youtube at work.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I think it's actually a positive thing to spend some time each day looking at digg especially if your in the technology industry, or the content of digg in someway realistically relates to the type of work you do. I know there have been several instances we're I've found something on digg that is immediately applicable to the users I work with, and in far more cases simply being knowledgeable of what's going on in different tech communities has a lot of value. Depending on your line of work, and of course what sections of digg your spending the most time in, browsing digg can definitely be a productive, professional activity.
Of course you can over do it, but taking time to relax and try to learn a few new things can really at value to the type of work you do. People I've worked with that are over concerned with only doing 'productive' work rarely come up with new or interesting approaches to solving a problem. - knuvue, on 12/05/2007, -1/+17My boss and I and a lot of the other developers at my work actually read digg.com. Anyone who sits on a computer for 8+ hours has the right to read up on some entertaining news every now and then. Nobody here is saying "don't do any work, just digg all day." So quit your bitching and don't even bother responding, you'll just get dugg down. again.
- billizm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17What's wrong with browsing digg.com at work? I do it. I am a software developer at a fortune 500 corp and there is no problem with it... If you are a person that says you shouldn't be browsing digg.com at work, then you obviously don't know what it is like the the real world work place. People browse the news at work, bid on online auctions at work, pass funny links and emails at work It is part of getting along with people at work, check the weather at work, etc... Its part of a normal work day, it is good for you and keeps you human.
- MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16You block everyone from accessing the internet but YOU obviously :D Oh how nice it is to be the admin.
- mobilehavoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14The irony in all this is that you are more likely to get fired/chastised for using an anonymizer service (proxy,etc) than browsing Digg. Horrible advice...
- Jubalicious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I'm still at work right now and both of those websites are blocked by Websense... oh Science how I hate Websense.
- TiMMY8765, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I have browsed digg in elinks several times, nobody ever questions you when you are working in a terminal
- eric1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I use the 'Paste into a Word doc' method; I'm also a fan of SSHing into another machine and reading it with Lynx :)
- Hoov, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12To all the people saying "you're at work, do your job", have you ever had 4 machines running 8 hour stress tests and nobody within 60-100 feet of you? Guess what, when everything's running I get real tired of twiddling my thumbs after a few seconds. The Internet is my savior; I don't abuse it but it definitely helps those slow days pass.
- bluemist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I use Opera.
I just subscribe to Digg's newsfeed. When I see a story I like, I turn on User Mode (ignores stylesheets of the sites), maybe turn off images too, and I have lots of blocked flash ads in my content blocker. What results is some generic-looking text which isn't too eye-catching.
Oh, and this is a Windows 2000 OS, I changed the Opera skin to Windows Native to match the apps. No one in this office knows Opera is an internet browser+mail reader+feed reader. I made it to actually look like Visual Studio (my work is in programming) with little icons and stuff. - yournamehere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9this is idiotic advice. all they have to do is look at the site you are going to "cloakip.net". not only would it be a bad site to be caught on but you would be asking for it by purposely going there. at least with a site you can say you linked to their by accident. this however would be obvious.
- Sp00nMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Actually, the easiest way to do this is quite simple (and for all you linux users)
Set up a linux server at home (or hey, cygwin on windows works). Run a sshd on say port 443. Make a note of your internet IP address.
Now, using putty at work, ssh into your home machine and enable a dynamic tunnel on port 8080
Now just set up you browser to use a socks proxy on localhost 8080. All your internet surfing will now go through an encrypted tunnel out your home PC! - Recoiler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9There's another way to not get caught browsing Digg at work. I think you can guess what it is. . . Nevermind, I can't live without Digg, either. :)
- nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Most of us work in IT, which is what a lot of the content of Digg caters to. If anything, it's making those of us IT workers more valuable employees. I wouldn't expect a doctor to be fired for reading up about the latest medical news.
- Peacedog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Two supervisors I've had in the past had some great advice. One said, "I don't care what you do in your free time but you'll never go wrong learning something while you have free time." The other one said, "Show up on time for work and 90% of any problems you have with me are solved."
Now before you think the second one is a slacker he also made the statement, "If we get a call and neither are busy, then I'll go do it. After all, I'm the one making more money." Now that's a supervisor. - Pause, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7amen brother. everyone needs a little down time.
- mrsexzzmaleman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"I'm still at work right now and both of those websites are blocked by Websense... oh Science how I hate Websense."
Just for the record, duggmirror isn't blocked by websense. At least not at my school. - sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The white-list pretty much kills any chances. It's really the way any company that wants to limit internet usage should go.
- bashar129, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7They link to www.CloakIP.net but call it www.CloakIP.com.
The correct address is www.CloakIP.net . Only a little mistake, but just so you know - nickerbocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's actually helps at times to take the time and relax the brain. Like get up and walk around the office, or browse Digg.com. Another way to be able to browse Digg at work - be in the IT department and have access to the content filter on the firewall. ;)
- turbodigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Haha, i love how the "boss key" is an anti-procrastination essay.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Why don't you just cancel your ISP service.
- yournamehere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i agree with you. this is just asking for trouble.
- bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@parent
Now theres one less place where I'm sending my resume to - mobilehavoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4IMHO...If you have to go to such lengths to hide the fact you are browsing Digg, you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
- joliveira, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6This is all well and good but 99.9% of the places where they don't want you reading digg will also block, or flag, any and all proxying or cloaking websites as well. Using one of those is a great way to get some IT dude knocking on your "cube" partition.
Also - franksmith, dude, go have a drink or something. Chillax, man! - akira117, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This site is better: https://proxify.com
(https means it's encrypted too)
My work blocks sites except certain ones,.https gets around that. - tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"IT'S WORKING! It's not about "time," but "productivity." That's all that should MATTER!"
I agree, but until we can reasonably quantify productivity it's going to be hours hours hours, and you'd better be working 40. - digitalsatori, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4These sites that allow you to get around the firewall usually cause more problems than they solve. As a system admin, if I see a user getting a bunch of hits to www.cloakip.net, my first reaction is that they are browsing more than just digg. I see logs of you browsing www.cloakip.net. You could be browsing porn or cnn.com. I can't tell the difference, and if you're smart enough to use cloakip.net then you generally clear your temp files. When my reports go up to Administration, they won't care that you MIGHT have been browsing digg or cnn.com, they will care that you are alluding our security measures. And guess what, you have no proof that you were browsing non-porn sites, just the fact that you were trying to hide something. That won't look good to your boss.
Point is, be careful when using these cloaking sites. Sometimes you get in more trouble for hiding something or lying about it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Dugg just for the WorkFriendly Link. Thats one iv'e got to add to my list along with these http://www.econsultant.com/proxylist/index.html
- nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5But what do you do when your company blocks access to WorkFriendly.net?.....stupid WebSense
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Or get a job where they don't care if you surf to a site that isn't related to your work.
- NerdENerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Both those sites are blocked by my works proxy server!
- hansamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Holy crap what kind of crazy place would fire you for browsing digg? I use Sage in Firefox to check the RSS feeds for digg, Slashdot, Kotaku, Joystiq, ESPN, and a few other sites while I'm at work. Works great and if I see a story, I click it and check it out. I don't need to worry about getting fired or even disciplined unless I was literally browsing the internet all day. But I know of one guy at work who literally is on the internet 100% of the day browsing Halo and DVD forums, shopping for DVDs and comics on eBay, and managing his own private DVD rental service for fellow employees, and I doubt he's even been disciplined.
- avolant, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4i'll start talking about the american military in terms of the swiss military when the american military starts operating under the same terms as those of the swiss.
- sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah. We allow all kinds of crap through (youtube, radio stations, digg, etc) but the anonymizers and stuff are always blocked.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://element14.wordpress.com/security-on-a-stick/
I've covered ways far better than this... but for a short overview on how to browse considering that link tells you how to do sooo much more..
Torpark (tor and firefox)
.. use any number of web proxies
vnc to your home machine
there's hundreds of ways depending on the security at your place of employment. this article is minimal effort ***** and doesn't work very well. - spydrlink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If your company is blocking digg.com then most likely they're going to block cloakip.com as well.
- jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if a company is serious about web filtering to the point where they're blocking digg.com (which is pretty extreme), they are more than likely blocking all traffic to proxy sites and anonymizers too. when you're screwed you're screwed.
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, just use Google's translator as a cloaking site. That way, if you get caught, your excuse can be "I was reading this news site".
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2dont forget to set your taskbar to auto-hide. That way, when people pass by you, they will not know what other progrmas you are using, or what other websites you are on unless you mouse over it.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Then this is unnecessary?
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's so true. Digg is actually surprisingly usable in a text-only browser, too.
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