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Problem with Privoxy and Tor

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By Dr. Nick

Greetings,

I use Debian Wheezy as an OS and I have already downloaded the Tor Browser-Bundle, which works fine.

As soon as a start privoxy and set the proxy to: 127.0.0.1:8118 (socks4) in the tor browser (edit–>pref–>advanced–>settings—>http-proxy) I always get a connection refused. I did everything that I can find on the privoxy troubleshooting page, but it won’t help.

I added this line to the /etc/privoxy/config to chain privoxy to tor, doesn’t work either.

forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .

tried this too

forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 .

I mostly get the message “refused by proxy server” when connecting to a website like google or something.

anyone have a suggestion what could be wrong?

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Tanglu status report

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Tanglu Logo (Text)

Hello everyone! I am very excited to report about the awesome progress we made with Tanglu, the new Debian-based Linux-Distribution.

First of all, some off-topic info: I don’t feel comfortable with posting too much Tanglu stuff to Planet-KDE, as this is often not KDE-related. So, in future Planet-KDE won’t get Tanglu information, unless it is KDE-related ;-) You might want to take a look at Planet-Tanglu for (much) more information.

So, what happened during the last weeks? Because I haven’t had lectures, I nearly worked full-time on Tanglu, setting up most of the infrastructure we need. (this will change with the next week, where I have lectures again, and I also have work to do on other projects, not just Tanglu ^^) Also, we already have an awesome community of translators, designers and developers. Thanks to them, the Tanglu-Website is now translated to 6 languages, more are in the pipeline and will be merged later. Also, a new website based on the Django framework is in progress.

The Logo-Contest

We’ve run a logo-contest, to find a new and official Tanglu logo, as the previous logo draft was too close to the Debian logo (I asked the trademark people at Debian). More than 30 valid votes (you had to be subscribed to a Tanglu Mailinglist) were received for 7 logo proposals, and we now have a final logo:

I like it very much :)

Fun with dak

I decided to use dak, the Debian Archive Kit, to handle the Tanglu archive. Choosing dak over smaller and easy-to-use solutions had multiple reasons, the main reason is that dak is way more flexible than the smaller solution (like reprepro or min-dak) and able to handle the large archive of Tanglu. Also, dak is lightning fast. And I would have been involved with dak sooner or later anyway, because I will implement the DEP-11 extension to the Debian Archive later (making the archive application-friendly).

duckWorking with dak is not exactly fun. The documentation is not that awesome, and dak contains many hardcoded stuff for Debian, e.g. it often expects the “unstable” suite to be present. Also, running dak on Debian Wheezy turned out to be a problem, as the Python module apt_pkg changed the API and dak naturally had problems with that. But with the great help of some Debian ftpmasters (many thanks to that!), dak is now working for Tanglu, managing the whole archive. There are still some quirks which need to be fixed, but the archive is in an usable state, accepting and integrating packages.

The work on dak is also great for Debian: I resolved many issues with non-Debian dak installations, and made many parts of dak Wheezy-proof. Also, I added a few functions which might also be useful for Debian itself. All patches have of course been submitted to upstream-dak. ;-)

Wanna-build and buildds

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 96

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(A heavily compressed version was previously e-mailed to the LoCo while efforts were underway to resolve why this could not be uploaded at the usual time)

This week’s episode mentions Ubuntu Phone briefly, talks about the need for discussion on the mailing list about an upcoming educational session for the LoCo on IRC, the standing promise that if there is a lack of discussion the first educational topic is going to be a discussion of “The Joy of the BeagleBoard”, and the need for bug squashing in Debian Wheezy which will trickle down to help Ubuntu.

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There is an opportunity available to purchase material goods to replace some of the hardware that has died at Erie Looking Productions over the past three weeks. Over the past three weeks the SheevaPlug server died which resulted in hurried realignment of the mission of the BeagleBoard away from its prior desktop role while the 5 year old keyboard PDA/phone finally bit the dust and the 6 year standalone digital media player finally died too. There are some other fallbacks available but they’re not maintainable long-term.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu