@IKeelYou niaho from pu'er, china!

s/niaho/nihao/

how to deal with this damn great firewall. i prepared for no facebook but forgot about no gmail!

anyone know ikeelyou's email address?

@IKeelYou: not sure if i accidentally overwrote the saved password or if it can't find the IP

@hippietrail VPN is off, I will turn it on when I am home in a while

d'oh what did you do that for?!

you knew i could arrive at any time and would be in an impossible hurry with no way to contact people \-:

but that was the other option i was thinking of

bing maps is shit and i can't tell if openstreetmap is blocked in china. it's not loading.

i forgot may has 31 days so it's still technically possible to make it

i wonder why my usual SE sites work here just fine but when i try other SE sites they don't work due to requiring jquery from google's CDN

@hippietrail try now..

I switched off my pc..

the VPN is in virtual machine.. now it is up and running.. try it

verifying username and password ...

@IKeelYou: i think i may have overridden the password

a four digit number?

aha!

I am restarting the VM..

ah that's why it's not working this time either (-:

i was just going to go out for food before it's too late

forgot about the timezone difference here

@hippietrail try now

looks like i didn't remember the six digit number then. it seems to be in a retry loop

@IKeelYou: hippietrail@yahoo.com

no it will work now.. it was updating the dns.. now it is ok..

try one last time

in that case i had it backwards

didn't realize that using it the next time is totally different to when you set it up so i overwrote it when i thought it hadn't saved the password

I am not sure I might be wrong, let me reset the password.. did it connect or not?

it got to trying the username and password and now it's trying to connect to the IP again!

i'm gonna try to get food now in case i miss out - i'll be right back!

ddns takes a few minutes to update.. just try in a bit and it should be ok..

the password is reset to the same one I just wrote

ok i'm back. always takes a while in a new town in china

it looks like it must not be working then

let me reenter the password and turn on error logging.

remove that man..

@hippietrail remove the address

from here I mean

Error 800: The remote connection was not made because the attempted VPN tunnels failed. The VPN server might be unreachable ...

cut me off before i could type it all

ok.. password is: ad654321

i had read that china had made more moves toward stopping VPN

this time logging really is turned on

not sure how to see this log it's talking about though

@hippietrail I will send you an ip address.. enter it instead of the hippietrail.... thing..

let me know once u copy it so I delete it..

k

same user and pwd..

same behaviour

is it just me or did you not delete the pword above?

stupid exchange place this afternoon had the exchange rate in a bizarre format so i spent more on this hotel room than i expected

for USD it just said 16.00

but that does not mean 16 CNY to 1 USD

it means 0.16 USD to 1 CNY

i thought everything seemed way to cheap \-:

I will cancel the vpn and fall back to the VM

i am copying the VM, it will take a few minutes..

no worries. i think i have to install teamviewer again too

yes

@IKeelYou: in the meantime unblockfacebookinchina.info/vpn-in-china

not working here

@IKeelYou: usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/01/23/…

teamviewer will work @hippietrail

dunno where it went. i clicked on run and it went away and it's not installed ...

install it again

download failed silently

almost ready here

i will email you the details..

ok i really really really need a shower (-:

thanks for all this

i am not going to shower you..

sorry mate

:D :D

i managed without you pretty well

how?

man secret

@IKeelYou this password is still visible man. ;)

that vpn is cancelled.. so it is useless

OK.

don't we have any china experts who recently used vpn in china?

our great firewall question is out of date

though it's both off topic and about giving advice on how to break the law, so i'm surprised it's still open

@IKeelYou: teamviewer finally downloaded and now installing

@hippietrail u said u managed ? seriously?

in the shower? or to install teamviewer? i managed both.

i mean you said u managed to access facebook..

no i didn't. or my brain has rotted even further

@IKeelYou: teamviewer remembers the old settings - are they the same this time?

no

ok

ill email the setting now

to yahoo please (-:

now? (-:

@hippietrail sent

connecting...

welcome to my pc..

it is a clean installation

98 updates are installing.. hahahahahahaha

working! let me set up what i need ...

gawd now i have to remember passwords ...

enjoy

gotta get up in four hours (-:

@IKeelYou: it seems to be strenuously resisiting me installing google chrome

@hippietrail windows update is installing many updates at the background, it can't install google because one installation at a time.. Stop the update first, click on the update icon and stop it.. Then install google, then resume the update.

yeah i stopped it. new google maps sucks all the cpu and ram it can get too \-:

Looks like you two are having fun.