Re: DNS Forwarding + Wireless Client + Tor [week two]

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hey,

thanks for reviewing that and adding the section, that was still
missing.

On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 19:53 -0500, R. W. Rodolico wrote:
> done with the Tor document. It is MUCH easier to edit than come up with
> something original. I added text to the Integrating with your web
> browser, but that was mainly based on reading online; I do not yet have
> this set up at my office. If someone gets a second, just look at it and
> make sure I didn't say something stupid.

I looked through it and I think that everything is fine. You added some
more information to some things I did not describe in detail in the
first place.

> I took you at your word and felt free to rewrite a couple of sections
> and/or expand on them. Hopefully, no one will have their feelings hurt;
> I just rewrote them in a way that made more sense to me.
> 
> I think I will have a little time tomorrow (the server is not supposed
> to be delivered until Thursday, I just found out). I will look at the
> wireless and DNS at that time.

I think that we will declare all three things as finished, now. There
has been plenty of time to review that and I guess that we should move
on to something new. There is a lot on our table, that needs to be done.

Thanks to all who contributed to this "iteration of the workflow".

-Michael

> 
> Rod
> 
> On 08/19/2013 03:13 PM, Michael Tremer wrote:
> > Hi Rod,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 01:46 -0500, R. W. Rodolico wrote:
> >> I've blocked off some time Tuesday afternoon (GMT-6) as "IPFire Work."
> >> What can I do? I'll need to build out a test router, but that should not
> >> take too long.
> > 
> > If you would also look over the Tor, wireless client and DNS forwarding
> > pages for spelling and grammar that would be great.
> > 
> > If you have even more time, it would be great if you could set up those
> > things with help of the instructions given on the wiki pages. If there
> > is something missing, please add that information.
> > 
> >> Looked at your document. It looks pretty good.
> >>
> >> In the line "Be aware, that this is not a HTTP proxy" it should be "Be
> >> aware, that this is not an HTTP proxy" (substitute An for A) to be
> >> grammatically correct. I doubt anyone would notice, however, and the
> >> statement is perfectly readable as is.
> > 
> > Right. You may edit those things right away :)
> > 
> >> Question though. You state that this is "not a HTTP proxy", but if I
> >> understood correctly, it is an IP proxy, so it will work over any
> >> protocol using IP (such as HTTP, HTTPS?). I think the statement needs a
> >> little clarification as to what the impact is.
> > 
> > Good that you point out these things, too!
> > 
> > The protocol is SOCKS, which has been used before NAT was invented. It
> > is a simple protocol, where you connect to the SOCKS proxy and tell that
> > proxy where to connect for you. In a very simplified way, you can think
> > of it like HTTP CONNECT.
> > 
> > If you type the Tor proxy into your browser settings it's just important
> > to type it into the SOCKS proxy setting and not as an HTTP proxy. Tor
> > will also warn if you want to use it as a HTTP proxy.
> > 
> > I hope this clears it up a little bit. Feel free to add this to the
> > wiki.
> > 
> >> Anyway, I know very little about Tor, but like I said, just tell me what
> >> to do and, unless something else breaks, I'll spend time on it Tuesday.
> >> Hope that is soon enough. I MAY also have some additional time the rest
> >> of the week; depends on when the new hardware arrives.
> > 
> > Setting up Tor should be very easy and you don't need to know very much
> > about it. I wouldn't write too much about what Tor is and stuff, because
> > that is covered elsewhere and possibly much better than we could do it.
> > 
> > But we should provide at least a short impression what Tor is for, so
> > that the users can figure out if they should look into it or if it is
> > just not interesting for them.
> > 
> > -Michael
> > 
> >>
> >> Rod
> >>
> >> On 08/17/2013 06:00 AM, Michael Tremer wrote:
> >>> Hey,
> >>>
> >>> I know that you are working very much and I am sure the other do as
> >>> well. That has to be priority, for sure.
> >>>
> >>> I would be very happy if you could just go through the texts and check
> >>> for bad grammar and such. It should not be too terrible.
> >>>
> >>> -Michael
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 11:57 +0100, Aaron Philpott wrote:
> >>>> Hey Michael 
> >>>>
> >>>> That's a shame. I'd put my hand up but I'm busy with work at the
> >>>> moment (working 50 hours this week) and then the same next week. 
> >>>>
> >>>> I also have to admit I'm not very familiar with Tor having never used
> >>>> it but I'm happy to help if you need me. 
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Aaron 
> >>>>
> >>>> On 17 Aug 2013 11:41, "Michael Tremer" <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>         Hey,
> >>>>         
> >>>>         almost one week has passed since we started working on these
> >>>>         three
> >>>>         topics. It's a bit sad, that so few participated and worked on
> >>>>         something
> >>>>         else instead.
> >>>>         
> >>>>         So I think that is nothing to do on the DNS Forwarding and
> >>>>         Wireless
> >>>>         Client pages and that we can pass that over to the
> >>>>         translators.
> >>>>         
> >>>>         Since, we want to release Tor very soon, we need to do the
> >>>>         same with the
> >>>>         Tor documentation as well. One paragraph has not been written
> >>>>         and if
> >>>>         there is no interest in doing that, I will just remove that
> >>>>         and people
> >>>>         need to find the information somewhere else.
> >>>>         
> >>>>         This is:
> >>>>         http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/addons/tor/client#use_the_tor_proxy_with_your_web_browser
> >>>>         
> >>>>         If somebody wants to work on that, please raise your hand.
> >>>>         Otherwise,
> >>>>         this will just be removed.
> >>>>         
> >>>>         Have a nice weekend!
> >>>>         
> >>>>         -Michael
> >>>>         
> >>>>         On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 19:28 +0200, Michael Tremer wrote:
> >>>>         > Hello,
> >>>>         >
> >>>>         > On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 19:16 +0200, SCHUH Karl, SCHUH-TV
> >>>>         wrote:
> >>>>         > > Hi Michael,
> >>>>         > > maybe it would be more important if start the translation
> >>>>         process. If someone wanted to start a translation, he could
> >>>>         look up the english version, if it were stable or if it was
> >>>>         worked upon. But there can be other rules to avoid a
> >>>>         translation of a page, which is to be changed (as it happened
> >>>>         to me with the NDS-forward-page). :-)
> >>>>         >
> >>>>         > I stated this several times on here, but here it is again:
> >>>>         Writing
> >>>>         > documentation does not care about translation. There is
> >>>>         nobody who can
> >>>>         > keep track of all languages.
> >>>>         >
> >>>>         > As long as a page is written, reviewed and has not been
> >>>>         approved to be
> >>>>         > finished, starting a translation is non-sense and must never
> >>>>         be done.
> >>>>         >
> >>>>         > -Michael
> >>>>         >
> >>>>         > >
> >>>>         > > Best regards,
> >>>>         > > Karl
> >>>>         > >
> >>>>         > > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> >>>>         > > > Well, I didn't feel that it made much sense, because if
> >>>>         someone is
> >>>>         > > > actually working on a page, the wiki software will lock
> >>>>         it, so that
> >>>>         > > > there won't be any conflicts.
> >>>>         > > > Otherwise, I didn't think that the team is big enough to
> >>>>         divide it
> >>>>         > > > into
> >>>>         > > > several groups who each work on a page.
> >>>>         > > >
> >>>>         > > > Why do you think do we need this?
> >>>>         > > >
> >>>>         > > > -Michael
> >>>>         > >
> >>>>         >
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