Embrace IPv6 today, be your own cloud

The not-so-new IPv6 protocol will force change upon the internet as we know it today. Humans tend to intensely dislike change, especially the unavoidable kind. That's probably the main reason why IPv6 has been languishing in the far corners of the internet for years. The new protocol does have a lot going for it, though.

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Evade firewalls with Firefox and SSH

Protect your communications with SSH.

If you ever found your web surfing mojo cramped by a (corporate) firewall operated by a half-brained admin with a morality complex, this article is for you. Firefox and SSH allow you to bypass just about any proxy or firewall currently in the market to get to the outside world. As an added bonus you'll get to do it completely encrypted so nobody will be able to see where you're surfing.

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