I often read the English version of Pravda or Iraqwar.ru to see what the other side of the world is saying. US MSM can't be trusted.
Lately all of the Russian sites have been blocked.
Must mean the dick heads in DC are up to no good.
I went through a Canadian Proxy and got right through.
America -- land of the free. Yah - right. :(
Choose a proxy from here - I used Hide My Stuff - paste the blocked link into it to see that it is still operational.
http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml
and original US blocked site. http://english.pravda.ru/
Hi Glenn... I got right through without a proxy (I use comcast.net) is yours still blocked?
I got through too. Maybe your ISP has it blocked.
I got through too.
I got thru early this AM but was in too much of a rush to comment. Now I'm watching the plumber repair the drywall.
I got through too Glenn. I think Uncle Squarehead has you dialed in. ::)
Connected with no problem.
But about an hour later this funny looking helicopter was buzzing my home. [noidea'
Quote from: sparks on August 16, 2008, 05:27:36 PM
Connected with no problem.
But about an hour later this funny looking helicopter was buzzing my home. [noidea'
Is that what that was. I thought they were having another NASCAR race. ::)
Sorry dudes -- the black choppers still have us nailed -- both Sassy and I.
(https://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d184/glennkangiser/nopravda.jpg)
Tried IE and Opera also.
Thanks for the replies --- must now begin checking over my shoulder.... [scared]
I can still get through with a proxy. I'll have to call my ISP to see if they are blocking it. Russia is a big source of spam but you wouldn't think they would block the whole country. d*
Well I see the problem glenn.
You're in California, so the website for you should be
http://ingles.pravada/ru/ DUH!
no problem accessing it here in South Carolina either
Gracias, Stink. Esto es la problema.
Gracias a todo....muchas gracias.
Esto es aqui solamente. d*
Usted es agradable.
OK you too that's enough. Language is English. Well at least part of it unless you are from the mountains and then it's just a slight varation. How do Ya al spect me to unstand wat yer saying.
You just need to get a Babel Fish for your ear....
42
With Spanish becoming the official language of the US, John, Stink was thinking that I was supposed to be using it to access the web.
I am still blocked -haven't called STI yet. (My ISP)
I hope it never comes to that. Shoot I haven't mastered English totally.
Ask Sassy how much she likes to hear the option to talk in Spanish on a phone message. rofl
John I thought judging from your avatar you were probably a igpa atinla guy.
Quote from: desdawg on August 17, 2008, 10:54:35 PM
John I thought judging from your avatar you were probably a igpa atinla guy.
Oh that is funny!
I don't know why but I have been removed from the censorship list.
The sites are back up now. d*
Hmmmmm, ya know the alt F4 function is not advantageous option. :heh
I just tried it but it only wanted to close my Firefox --- which lately seems to have become the buggiest computer browser ever -- the more they update and improve it the worse it gets. I suppose it doesn't matter that I want to run about 30 open tabs.
I tried that on IE though and it crashed before it opened - so I guess I shouldn't complain.
Re: Firefox.... I've never had problems I could blame on Firefox. We run it on 3 computers. EWven when I open a plethora of tabs the only downside I note is the extra load, the slowdown, on the DSL when having to open many pages that happen to have lots of image files.
We're running V. 3.0.1
That error is not from a site being blocked, it's a dns failure. It means your computer could not turn english.pravda.ru into 209.50.249.218. Likely an ISP issue, and it should rectify itself after a few hours once time to live expires on your negative hit record. A block would look more like a timeout error as traffic does not actually go into the remote site. I wouldnt blame the government yet, it looks like pure technology failure to me.
glenn, do you use wireless a home?
I have firefox too. Discovered that a majority of my issues was two fold. The wireless kept switching channels and firefox or my computer could not handle it. But the big one was "guard interval" was too short on the router causing general wireless problems in the house (chronic disconnects).
Hope this helps!
Do you use a mac?
Quote from: muldoon on August 18, 2008, 10:21:55 AM
That error is not from a site being blocked, it's a dns failure. It means your computer could not turn english.pravda.ru into 209.50.249.218. Likely an ISP issue, and it should rectify itself after a few hours once time to live expires on your negative hit record. A block would look more like a timeout error as traffic does not actually go into the remote site. I wouldnt blame the government yet, it looks like pure technology failure to me.
Took a few days but was straight last night --- gone again today.
Quote from: StinkerBell on August 18, 2008, 10:59:29 AM
glenn, do you use wireless a home?
I have firefox too. Discovered that a majority of my issues was two fold. The wireless kept switching channels and firefox or my computer could not handle it. But the big one was "guard interval" was too short on the router causing general wireless problems in the house (chronic disconnects).
Hope this helps!
Do you use a mac?
Yup - wireless here. I never have disconnects that I know of. Firefox seems to load up -- start hogging memory - losing video - losing sound - loading up the processor to where the fan is running all of the time. I have to shut it down and restart to get memory back down and things working again.
I could try it wired and see if that makes a difference - bit of a pain though. I sit in a chair with this mass of spaghetti piled around the side already - OK so its wires that look like spaghetti.
Try setting your wireless to a single channel. That helped me.
I'll try to find the book on it -
Glen, if IP addresses of these sites got changed, then that could result in the behavior you was seeing.
If it happens again, open the "Command" window, and type:
C:\> ipconfig /flushdns
Odd that it is only happening to the two sites from Russia out of 30 tabs. One of them fairly commonly go offline every few months.
Tried that - get a Windows cannot find 'C:\>'
glen,
click start -> run. in the little box that opens, type in cmd and hit enter.
this opens a black box with c:\> in it. from there type ipconfig /flushdns and hit enter. close and re-open firefox. it may correct the problem.
If that does not fix it, put this in next. just copy and paste it into the black box as is.
C:\>echo 209.50.249.218 english.pravda.ru >> c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Again, close and re-open firefox and try again.
Tried all of that - flush worked OK but didn't fix it.
Second one - got access denied
So does the same thing happen with Sassy when she uses her computer there at home? Or how about a neighbor/friend trying theirs on your dsl line. Just to help and nerrow it down to the machine or the feed.
She is also blocked out unless she uses the proxy.
This one gets lost once in a while -- people from all over the world reply on it but it is based in Russia.
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-index.php
This one is normally always there but now I only get it through proxy.
http://english.pravda.ru/
I tried Opera and IE but they don't work either.
Is it possible you down loaded a viruses from the website ? ;D
Hey Stink - missed part of your question --- A Mac --- sometimes if I get by McDonald's but the special sauce sometimes drips in my PC so I try to avoid it, not to mention the inevitable bloat that follows in about a half hour.
I'm virus free, Stink --- just had a checkup. ::) (I use protection).
AVG
Those both work for me. Have you asked your ISP? How about you trying the sites using somebody else's connection as a test.
Weird - they are both back up now --- d*
User Error ? lol
;D
OHHHHHH __ that's cheating.
NO -I'm pretty good --- and ---it's gone again.