New to the List

[Chris Hallsworth]

Hi, I do have a question actually. My university network uses a proxy server 
that uses basic authentication. It appears that Evolution doesn't work with 
this connection. Does anyone know of either a programme that will work with 
connections like this, or does anyone know of a programme that "bypasses" 
the proxy connection and thus force all programmes to connect directly? I 
know under Windows there's Proxifier, but we're talking about Ubuntu here 
<smiles>. Thanks in advance for the help.

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Why not join my Blind Hobbyist group? To join, send a blank message to 
blind-hobbyist-subscribe at googlegroups.com. Thanks, Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NoOp" <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: New to the List


> On 05/19/2008 01:17 PM, Chris Hallsworth wrote:
>> Hi all, I've just joined this list as I'm currently trying out Ubuntu on 
>> my
>> Windows Vista laptop. So far I like it. I can get on the internet, use
>> Pigeon Instant Messenger, use Firefox Web Browser, and so on. Now, as I'm
>> blind, I use the provided Orca as my assistive technologies, and, 
>> although
>> it has its querks, it seems pretty stable. Note I installed Ubuntu via 
>> Wubi,
>> as I haven't yet created a live CD. I look forward to learning all about
>> this free, open-source, GUI-based operating system. Regards, Chris.
>
> Welcome to the list! You might find these links useful:
>
> For the list:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette
>
> For Wubi (I'm not sure it many folks here have detailed experience with
> Wubi, so these might be useful as a fallback):
>
> http://wubi-installer.org/
> http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php
>  http://wubi-installer.org/support.php
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide
>
> For general help & information sources:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/
> Not sure how easy it is for you to use the "Search" box in the upper
> right hand corner of the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ page, so
> here is a direct link to the HelpIndex:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HelpIndex
>
> Also, there are many Ubuntu Forums:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/
>
> You might also find that subscribing to the list as a blind user that it
> may be hard to search the archives and wade through many daily emails.
> I'd recommend that you subscribe to the list using the gmane nntp server
> instead. This way you: 1) don't get a bunch of emails each day, and 2)
> you can easily search for archives based on subject, author, etc., using
> your web browser. See:
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists
>  nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu
>
> If you need help in how to set up SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Evolution, or
> most other email clients with newsreaders to read and post to newsgroups
> let us know.
>
>
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