Proxy

Google Sharing Proxy [Firefox]

2010-01-22T08:42:00.000-08:00

Google has the means to track users even if they are not logged into one of the many services provided by the company. Several options are available to create user profiles based on the searches conducted. This includes tracking IP addresses, analyzing Google Analytics data and cookies to track a user’s searches and activities over a period of time.

Google Sharing has been designed to protect users so that Google is not able to track their activities on the Internet. The concept is simple. Google Sharing uses a series of proxy servers that have been specifically designed to work with Google services that do not require a login. Every access to such a Google service, like Google search for instance, will be routed automatically through a Google Sharing proxy server that will replace the identifying data of the user with its own.

This means that Google will not be able to identify the user based on cookies or the IP address as those are substituted by the proxy server.

The GoogleSharing system consists of a custom proxy and a Firefox Addon. The proxy works by generating a pool of GoogleSharing “identities,” each of which contains a cookie issued by Google and an arbitrary User-Agent for one of several popular browsers. The Firefox Addon watches for requests to Google services from your browser, and when enabled will transparently redirect all of them (except for things like Gmail) to a GoogleSharing proxy. There your request is stripped of all identifying information and replaced with the information from a GoogleSharing identity.

This “GoogleShared” request is then forwarded on to Google, and the response is proxied back to you. Your next request will get a different identity, and the one you were using before will be assigned to someone else. By “sharing” these identities, all of our traffic gets mixed together and is very difficult to analyze.

The proxy code has been made available by the developer’s so that it can be analyzed by security experts and installed by webmasters who want to run the proxy on their own web server.

The Firefox add-on provides access to a button to quickly disable and enable the Google proxy server. The options also provide the means to change the proxy server used (e.g. switch to a custom one installed on a web server), exclude Google services from being routed through the proxy and to exclude languages from appearing in the search results.

It’s Friday

2009-04-25T08:59:00.000-07:00

I love Friday this is the day that always makes me so happy, usually I spent my time playing a game with different title and do you believe that I can spent almost whole day playing all my favorite game. Sometime because of so many features that need to understand the behaviors, did you realize that when we play it there is an important file called File Extension META

I am not a programmer or people with a good knowledge about this File Extension META but this file is usually paired with a SAV file and Its contains a lot of the data that tells a creature in the game how to behave and interact with its surroundings.

Anyway what I am understand about this File is not important just do what you want to do and enjoy your game and do not forget you can not play your favorite game all day long, since we have thing to do next day, well enjoy your week end.

Multimedia in my mobile phone

2009-04-23T10:15:00.000-07:00

It’s been two year since I buy my mobile phone with top branded with all the features, but some problem occurred when I try to capture my special occasion using my mobile phone video, because I always having problem when I try to synchronized it with my desktop, File Extension 3gp doesn’t work.

What I understand File Extension 3gp also compatible with my desktop, make me so confused and frustrated as far as I concerned these files are multimedia files used in the creation and distribution of multimedia on mobile devices across 3G networks.

Well rather then confusing with my mobile phone I bring my mobile phone to the cellular provider and connected it to my desktop to synchronize it Understand that this file has structure's container system that will reduces bandwidth and storage usage, which is can making them perfect for use in mobile communications applications.

Third Proxy Adviser Backs Co

2009-04-21T21:53:00.000-07:00

Federal Signal Corp. (FSS) shares rebounded Tuesday as an independent proxy advising firm became the third in two days to give the company's management a vote of confidence in its battle with an activist investor.

Federal Signal, which makes a variety of products ranging from fire trucks to sewer cleaning systems to precision tools, said that Proxy Governance Inc. recommended Federal Signal shareholders vote for the company's nominees at the annual meeting set for April 29.

The company is being challenged by one of its largest holders, Warren B. Kanders, who has nominated himself and two others for the board, urging "new blood" to turn around the company.

Proxy Governance is the third group this week to back Federal Signal, which analysts said appears to be giving investors renewed confidence in shares.

The shares were recently up 15% to $6.97 after earlier climbing as high as $7.08, a 17% gain. Tuesday's move all but erased a 17% fall Monday, when the industrial sector plummeted along with the general market.

"People are optimistic that maybe the Warren Kanders disruption for over the last couple of years is maybe going away," Next Generation Equity Research analyst Ned Borland said. "Maybe it gives people a little more faith in the management team."

The tussle between Kanders and Federal Signal has been long running. Kanders spent much of last summer trying to force his way into the chief executive position, pumping up his desire to make acquisitions and propel shareholder value. He also has claimed that the company has covered up alleged insider trading at the executive level.

Federal Signal denied all charges and in September named William Osborne as chief executive. Kanders subsequently nominated himself, Steven R. Gerbsman and Nicolas Sokolow for the board.

Kanders said in a statement Monday his group's interests are "aligned with shareholders," promising to work constructively with management and "provide them with the guidance and experience they lack."

Kanders wasn't immediately available for comment.

Federal Signal said in a Tuesday release that Proxy Governance, the independent firm, recommended the company's nominees because "the board has demonstrated appropriate oversight and a commitment to accountability to shareholders" and adding that Osborne, who is among the nominees, has the necessary experience.

Monday, RiskMetrics Group and Glass Lewis & Co., two other proxy advisers, sided with Federal Signal and said the board members have sufficient backgrounds.

Barrington Research analyst Walter Liptak said it appears "it's just too early for the shareholders to give up control."

Preparation for my presentation

2009-03-31T08:37:00.000-07:00

Presentation is one of the key success for my works and it always connected to the File Extension PPS that it’s why I always maintained this File Extension PPS.
People trust to our product because of my presentation and the way I bring my presentation will reflecting my capability to process my product, now days so many tools that help me gaining my profit

The success of my presentation is depending on my overall presentation. And sometimes I lost some File Extension PPS, which is I don’t understand why it happen. Although I have back up file that support my presentation still need to be more careful on it

Last presentation that I present end up with success story, my customer very interest with my product and gaining more profit understand that, people will do business with people that they know, and from this experience I always planning and provide my presentation with maximal preparation.

Corrupted file on my PC

2009-03-25T09:46:00.000-07:00

Not long ago I have problems accessing certain types of files in my PC, and finding my computer to be unstable and slower than it should be. The fragmentation and corruption of my computer’s Windows registry seems lie at the heart of a whole range of PC security. The stability and performance issues that I have unstable, seems the problem occurred from File Extension WPS.

I have a solution for this File Extension WPS problem, first I really confused With this File Extension WPS luckily my friend ever facing the same problem and he informed my to check it at a website that he recommended.

And I find out for certain exactly what is wrong with my system’s registry and know for sure whether I need to fix invalid file associations, corrupted software settings, and not only that the amazing is, it make my PC run smoothly.

The press: proxy for the public

2009-01-25T23:19:00.001-08:00

It’s fitting that the latest effort to strengthen Missouri’s Sunshine Law hit the papers this week, just as our region’s editors and publishers began to gather for their annual convention.

The Northwest Missouri Press Association is meeting in St. Joseph, keeping intact a 119-year tradition. Programs at the Holiday Inn will focus on legislative issues of importance to the press and our region, and how community newspapers can stay afloat during a recession.

It’s notable that the largest crowd in years is expected — registrations were received from more than 80 newspaper owners, staff members, educators and friends of the press. It seems that a lot of people want to see local journalism survive this downturn.

That prospect is a lot more likely when the public understands why newspapers are important. They provide information, we all understand. But in many instances, public and private, they also stand as our indispensable proxy:

n We think of the many nights area editors and reporters have attended school board or council meetings, then waited outside during secret “executive sessions” hoping to corral someone who would answer their questions and provide credible information about what went on.

n We think of the occasions when an area reporter, at the end of an already long week, has traveled halfway across the state to cover a town’s sports team as it competed for state or regional honors.

n We think of the nights — too many of these — when these same reporters have been rousted out of bed to report on fires, traffic accidents and worse. Someone must tell these stories, and it falls to newspaper folks.

This newspaper, like others, has a vested interest in attracting and keeping readers and advertisers. Information is our lifeblood. But we also do what we do because we believe in it. That’s why, to a person, you will find newspaper people advocating for more openness in government.

This session, legislators will debate giving the public more notice when governmental bodies will be discussing tax increases, zoning changes and use of eminent domain powers. They will be asked to narrow the definition for when a public meeting can be closed to discuss potential litigation. They will be challenged to make the workings of the Missouri Ethics Commission more open.

Good Presentation

2009-01-14T09:01:00.000-08:00

My works is always has a connection with people who want to buy my product and it’s sometime very demanding and in a last minute. I have an experience while I need to do a presentation to their group. The success of my presentation is depend to my overall presentation. And sometimes I lost some file extension PPS, which is I don’t understand why it happen.

Several days ago I try to download a free software that I need urgently, but in this process the software did not work properly, I am wondering what cause of this problem. Maybe what basically happens is that file extension TORRENT splits the file up among multiple nodes and the nodes then download the pieces from each other while it work maybe some missing file is occurs.

File extension DLL is also important file that need to run smoothly for web pages with DLL file extensions are typically hosted on Microsoft IIS Web servers; the DLL extension must be mapped to the correct scripting engine on the server in order for the page to be processed correctly.

Digital (SLR) photo

2009-01-04T07:11:00.000-08:00

When we talked about digital camera, last thing that I remember is when I buy my new camera was really disappointed me, I never realize that knowing detail of the specification is one of the important thing to buy a digital camera.

For the second time I buy a new camera but this time I Follow my instinct and I asked a several question about Canon EOS 350D, Nikon D80 and Sony DSC-S730. I mention thre of different type of the digital camera because I know the information about it from here and I decide to buy one of my favorite Nikon D80 and it help me much for my works.

Well I did not made a wrong decision when I chose Nikon D80 all the specification is amazing, I can use long lenses to bring that distant person. The picture is seem really look closer and for the result I am really satisfied using this digital camera.

Midwestone to receive $35 million from bailout program

2008-12-26T08:34:00.000-08:00

IOWA CITY — MidWestOne Financial Group Inc. has received preliminary approval from the U.S. Treasury Department to participate in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Capital Purchase Program, a voluntary program designed to increase the flow of credit to support the economy.

MidWestOne Financial is the parent company of MidWestOne Bank. MidWestOne Financial has been preliminarily approved to sell to the Treasury $34.925 million of senior preferred stock and warrants to acquire shares of its common stock.

The Capital Purchase Program, announced in October, is a voluntary program that encourages financial institutions to build capital to help increase the flow of financing to businesses and consumers in order to support the economy. Under the program, Treasury will purchase, on standardized terms, up to $250 billion of senior preferred stock and warrants in U.S. financial institutions.

“We are pleased that MidWestOne has been selected to participate in this voluntary program. In addition to our strong capital position, which is evidenced by the fact that our capital ratios currently exceed those required to be considered well-capitalized, this new equity investment will increase our capacity to lend and enhance our ability to support economic activity in the local communities we serve,” said Charlie Funk, President and CEO, in a written statement.

“We believe that participating in this program presents us with an attractive opportunity during this uncertain economic environment, as it will provide us with capital to be used in implementing our strategy of supporting growth in our communities through smart, responsible lending,” said Funk.

The company intends to hold a special meeting of shareholders in mid to late January, 2009, at which shareholders will vote on proposed amendments to the company’s articles of incorporation to authorize preferred stock that may be issued to Treasury pursuant to the Capital Purchase Program and to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock. The company has filed preliminary proxy materials with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the special meeting of shareholders, and intends to file definitive proxy materials in the near future. Upon filing of definitive proxy materials, such materials will be mailed to the Company’s shareholders. The materials will contain specific information regarding the date, time and place of the special meeting and voting procedures.

Protect our belonging

2008-10-28T08:28:00.000-07:00

GPS tracking if I heard that words I always remember about one of my favorite film, the title is “Enemy of the state” maybe you all already watch this movie and so many question will come up, we feel that the personal live will no longer belong to us, every single movement always still can be track.

Understand that GPS tracking will help us to track our belonging or to track our family, our pets or anything that we need to know. Now days this technology already used worldwide since it was found and really help for mankind. Although so many pro contra with this stuff, but still mostly said that this is a wonderful tools that can help the world with all their consequent

If we talk about GPS tracking 4 year ago it seems that this is the high end stuff and only limited off people that really need this, military the one that always using this stuff, they can put at car, airplane, etc. Also it can track people without realizing it, for me this kind of stuff we need it as long as we used it as in good purposed.

Web Hosting Service

2008-10-05T08:40:00.000-07:00

Everyone knows the Internet. Adult, Elder, Kids, Teenage, and everyone using internet to find information and knowledge for daily purposes. Some might say that Internet has a great wisdom. But do you know about the process…? About the internet? Or even about web hosting service?

First of all, a website needs webhosting service to store files and programming language. So webhosting is a vital for a webmaster. A webhosting service provides a service that allows webmaster to store web pages. Many webhosting providers sell or giving a free service, they provide the technology and servers to view and store website on the internet. They store website (also called web pages) on a dedicated computer called a server. The server is a small part of a huge network of computers on the World Wide Web that allows internet users from around the world to access your site at anywhere and anytime. The internet is never sleep, 24 hours a day, seven days a week and you’ve got the idea.

Most hosting companies require that you buy your own domain name before purchasing hosting service. But worry not because many webhosting providers also includes free domain on their packages. You can buy the domain name and hosting at the same time. Internet is easy, if you know how to use it. Host computers are configured so that when your URL or domain name is typed in, the address will use a pointer routine (look for the address from terminal to terminal) until it reaches the computer that hosts your web-site. Then, if all is okay, your web site should display itself on the users screen.

Next, let’s talk about the domain name. A domain is a unique name that identifies IP addresses on the World Internet. For example, the domain name Google.com represents about 15 IP address. If you are planning to use a web hosting provider service, you can always check on webmaster customer review to help you decide on which one you will use.
Happy playing Internet.

Confusing me, which one to buy

2008-10-04T09:13:00.000-07:00

I’ve been walking under the street this afternoon, they called it kapas krampung street and try to find my shopping list for my new server project link which is already 2 hours I put in my pocket, and by chance my eyes is stand out to a small store that selling several type of digital camera, well actually my destination is not really want to buying a digital camera.

Follow my instinct I asked a several question about Canon EOS Rebel XSi, Nikon D40 and Sony Alpha DSLR-A200 well as a person that has a limited budget I try grab all the information in details. Although the answer was not really satisfied me still I try to asked the brochure and manufacturer description and I decide not to buy the camera right away.

Back to my house and comparing all the detail information that I got still not really understand and I am still not yet decide whether want to buy Canon which has a good image quality, or Nikon which is the seller said “natural color” or just to buy Sony which I had no information clearly about this. Well still confusing me …..or maybe you just need to browse here, so hopefully your decision will not wrong.

Five ways to lose a proxy fight

2008-09-24T23:21:00.000-07:00

A proxy fight is akin to a political campaign and getting the message out and the votes in are tantamount to shoring up a win, says Stuart Morrow, senior partner at the law firm Davis LLP in Vancouver, who specializes in disputed shareholder meetings and proxy campaigns.

"Proxy contests are ultimately won and lost at the ballot box:Whoever has the most shareholder support gets the prize at the end of the day.

"It is very much an exercise in persuading shareholders that the dissidents have a more effective plan for maximizing shareholder value than do incumbent management."

Or visa-versa.

Mr. Morrow wrote a paper outlining the fine points of conduct and related case law surrounding proxy contests and shareholder meetings and offers up the following five, sure-fire ways that can see an otherwise worthy proxy challenge go off the rails:

1. Fail to sell your vision and message A message needs to be clear, forward-thinking in its outlook and disseminated to as many shareholders as possible.

2. Lack of financial resources The formalities associated with a proxy battle can be very expensive, Mr. Morrow said. Parties rarely want a protracted battle so most proxy campaigns are settled prior to the shareholders' meeting, when the parties either reach a compromise or a negotiated settlement.

3. Underes timate your opponent Never underestimate the dissidents and don't take major shareholder loyalty for granted. Your opponents may be more credible than you anticipate. Parties rarely want a protracted battle so most proxy campaigns are settled prior to the shareholders' meeting, when the parties either reach a compromise or a negotiated settlement.

4. Distress, distraction and disorganization A sudden challenge to the incumbent management and board can result in shock, panic and an inability to mount a rapid and credible counter-attack, contributing to a market perception of weakness, adding momentum to the dissidents' campaign.

5 . Ignore the technical details The devil is in the detail. Slip up and you can be on the wrong end of a proxy fight. Count on rigorous scrutiny of technical details related to your campaign and shareholders' meeting, including the overlay of applicable corporate and securities laws, stock exchange rules, company bylaws, articles. Overlook one little detail and you will create a compliance minefield for opposing counsel to exploit and undermine your campaign.

CSX Capitulates In TCI Proxy Fight

2008-09-23T23:19:00.000-07:00

Ending a long-running and ugly battle, U.S. railroad CSX Corp. will seat two director nominees whose victory over management candidates it had disputed.

The move to add the second pair of nominees proffered by activist hedge funds The Children’s Investment Fund and 3G Capital Partners comes after a federal appeals court upheld a lower court decision allowing the two funds to vote their 6.4% stake in CSX. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals refused to overturn the June decision which found that late disclosures by the hedge funds did not cause the irreparable harm to CSX shareholders necessary to strip them of their rights.

CSX said TCI chief Christopher Hohn and London Underground managing director Timothy O’Toole will join the company’s 12-member board on Sept. 24. Two other hedge fund nominees, including 3G’s Alexandre Behring, were seated in July. The Jacksonville-based company refused to seat Hohn and O’Toole at the time because their margin of victory was small enough that a CSX court victory could have kept them off the board.

Miner Gets Proxy Nod in HF Battle

2008-09-22T23:07:00.000-07:00

Proxy advisory firm PROXY Governance Inc. (PGI) is siding with the management of mining company Cleveland-Cliffs in its battle with hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners.

Harbinger, which owns about 15.6 percent of Cleveland-Cliffs, has sought permission to increase its stake to more than 20 percent of the company. Even if the fund does get approval, it will still not be allowed to hold more than a third of the company.

Last month, however, Cleveland-Cliffs asked shareholders to reject the proposal. Management has clashed with Harbinger over the company's bid to acquire Alpha Natural Resources, a move Harbinger opposes. Instead, the fund has suggested Cleveland-Cliffs should consider putting itself up for sale.

On Friday, PGI backed management, issuing an 11-page report on the matter. The proxy advisor noted Harbinger has not proposed to pay any control premium as part of its acquisition of more shares, and yet the fund would effectively gain the ability to block the Alpha deal.

"Because the proposed control share acquisition could give Harbinger effective veto power over certain corporate strategies and strategic transactions, but offers shareholders neither a control premium not a discernable economic or strategic advantage they would not otherwise realize, we recommend shareholders reject the proposal," the PGI report concluded.

In its own letter to shareholders on Friday, Harbinger in essence agreed with the idea that its proposal is about the Alpha takeover. Harbinger called the deal with Alpha "too much, too fast." The issue will be resolved at the company's shareholders meeting on Oct. 3.

Legendary investor Philip Falcone founded Harbinger in 2001. The fund has more than $21 billion in assets under management. It has recently disclosed stakes in RTI International, AK Steel Holding Corp. and Media General Inc.

Internet as primary demands

2008-08-13T00:54:00.000-07:00

Are we live on a small world? No we don’t, the earth is as big as we know it contains 5 continent and 7 seas. Is it hard to communicate over the seas? No, it is not, because of advance communication technology we have, communication between 2 person no matter how far they are, can be established as they are facing each other. Maybe most of you know this and maybe each of you have been surfing the Internet via mobile broadband, and maybe you have a cell phone on each of your pocket. For a personal need cell phone or communication gadget main function is to communication, but as businessman communication is a vital that can be denied at any cost.

When money is involved, a businessman will fulfill any requirements to enhance their performance and of course their credibility. Fast service, minimum claims and good marketing can be achieved through good communication. But today, a businessman doesn’t have to stay in the office to do their work. Just take the laptop, plug the mobile broadband, finding the hotspot that provides 3G signal and voila…they have the world in front of their vey eyes. Conduct a speed test to make sure your connection is stable and trustworthy.

Having a sophisticated gadgets make our lives easy. Download or stream a movie is just like playing from local computer. Broadband connection is providing us a high speed connection, that won’t make you wait any longer to open some web site. If you are dial-up users, migrating to broadband is recommended. Faster connection potential will stands out when:

Playing game Online
Upload or download a big file
Streaming a video online
Chatting and using a real time webcam
And still many more…

Broadband connection advantages

2008-08-09T04:37:00.000-07:00

People are getting used with Internet today, as communication technology is advancing more beyond that our can imagine. High speed Internet is more common for every house. Internet Service Provider is growing rapidly, and we can choose the one that fit us well. When choosing broadband connection you should really consider about the reliability, connection speed and the pricing. You can do your broadband speed test to know how fast your connection now. Broadband is faster than dial up connection, making surfing become more comfortable, cutting the waiting time loading picture and webpage. Reduce the possibilities your download progress being cut off.

Peoples who work from home may only need some reliable internet access, if they just sending documents, graphics or letters for their clients. But for high density factory or companies, high speed internet is one of crucial aspect for transporting large amount data from affiliates, selling report or even having a teleconference between branch and main office. They will need bigger bandwidth to upload and download purpose, and broadband speed is perfect for fulfilling this condition.

Personally I too have been using broadband connection for 2 years. Because I need high speed and constant connection to make me business to roll. About the pricing, I think even broadband is more expensive than dial up, but the advantages is unquestionable. This is the benefits of using a broadband:

Fast download
4.5 to 140 times faster than dial up connection
Always on connection
Telephone and Internet access can be used together.
No telephone charges

What kind of PC do I need to run broadband?

The following minimum is, however, recommended:
Processor 200 MHz (or better)
Operating System Windows 98SE (or higher)
RAM (memory) 32 MB RAM
Free Disk Space 125MB
SVGA monitor
CD-ROM Drive
Network Interface Card(NIC) with 10/100 Mbps Ethernet port with RJ45 socket

Tips for starting you home page

2008-07-31T01:52:00.000-07:00

Home page is very common in these days. Lot of people stared to think to create their own website. I want to write about how to start a homepage from the very beginning.

How do you choose a hosting provider when there are thousands of hosting companies available online? There are lots of them. You must consider few things to choose. The higher the downtime of a server, the lower the potential for traffic at your web site. You can find any article that cover about web hosting on the net. Another consideration is how much space is provided for the files that will make up your web site. How much bandwidth is in your package? Monthly bandwidth is the amount of data transfer allowed for visitors to view and use your web site. More bandwidth equal more visitor, that sure a good news. But please remember if many programs such as proxy server is making your bandwidth exhausted but you only have few unique visitor. Proxy is a service to cache some ip addresses to display on another ip that request the same page. This is making your unique visitor counted as 1 even you have dozens reader. Proxy is like a coin, having 2 sides. On one side it may proven useful, but on the other side it cause bad result, unavoidable.

It is important to get as much server space and bandwidth as you can. This will allow for necessary updates and increased traffic to your site as it becomes more popular. Because of this issue you have to find a perfect web hosting that meet your criteria, and of course suit you perfectly. Refer to this page to find your upcoming web hosting. You can have your question answered there.

Obtain a domain name that will help you in your marketing niche and strategy. If your business name is already taken by someone else then get a URL name close to what you are doing. Purchasing a business name domain name isn’t the only way to go, and when a keyword domain name could do just fine. If you experiencing trouble for finding one you can always refer the Internet for additional information about domain names. Keep it Short & Memorable – Don’t get a URL that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. Remember, your domain name is an extension of your business and your brand of product or service.

Proxy firms disjointed in support of Yahoo's board

2008-07-25T05:56:00.000-07:00

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Investor advisory firms are split on whether to partially furtherance the re-choice of Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) refreshment of employers ahead of its every twelve months encounter, but their reviews have less authority since Yahoo struck a deal to avert a proxy battle.

Proxy adviser Glass Lewis & Co has recommended that Yahoo shareholders vote against Chairman Roy Bostock and two extra directors in rally over the company's road record on policymaking pay, and the firm expressed fretfulness over a deal to site militant investor Carl Icahn on its panel.

Glass Lewis noted that Bostock, Ron Burkle and Arthur Kern were on Yahoo's compensation committee in 2007, when the company increased pay for executives even as it performed poorer than rivals, according to a July 23 report obtained by Reuters on Thursday.

Separately, ISS Governance Services, a unit of RiskMetrics (RMG.N: Quote, Profile, Research), recommended in its own report this week that investors vote to re-designate all remaining Yahoo timber associates, including one, Robert Kotick, who asked to step down on Sunday from the boarding.

ISS differed with Yahoo management on a non-binding proposal to be put reticent at the August 1 twelve-monthly consultation, recommending its base of institutional investors vote in favor of a "pay for recital" proposal that Yahoo management has opposed.

"We suppose that Yahoo's compensation practices, in unique the freshly-adopted severance pay plans, as well as the way the sustenance handled negotiations with Microsoft at the first rostrum, are concerning," the ISS report concludes.

Yahoo reached a deal with Icahn earlier this week to make bigger its slat to 11 supporters, agreeing to let him and two of his nominees join to avert a proxy battle at the once yearly engagement. The pact takes drift after the business meeting.

ISS recommends that Yahoo investors desist from voting for Icahn's alternative slate of nominees, but struck a confident note about the force Icahn and his outside nominees can have on the plank in the wake of the proxy settlement with Yahoo.

"We have faith in the settlement appointing Mr. Icahn as a paltry owner representative as well as two of his selected nominees with pertinent industry experience have achieved what most shareholders known as for," ISS said.

But Glass Lewis said the fact that Icahn by this time serves on seven civic company boards was a cause for unease.

"We imagine shareholders would television Mr. Icahn's capacity to offer adequate time and attention to the company," the report advised Yahoo investors.

Icahn launched a proxy battle against Yahoo in May to take along it back to the negotiating slab with Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research).

At minimum one minor Yahoo stockholder, Legg Mason fund leader Bill Miller, declined to back Icahn.

While many Yahoo shareholders sought a deal, Microsoft has cast off interest in obtaining all of Yahoo since talks over a $47.5 billion bid collapsed in May.

"It (a merger deal) didn't work out," Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said at the company's annual meeting for Wall Street analysts on Thursday. "Fine, we're done. We can move on," he said. But he also said parley could restart later.

Pakistan's proxy war

2008-07-10T05:27:00.000-07:00

For the country, and the Congress-led Regime especially, it was a Disgraceful Weekday: Its Governance in Jammu & Kashmir vanish; the Tract withdrew its connection; it mislaid a few legislators in Mysore to the BJP; and horror of horrors, Pakistan official its proxy war against India in Afghanistan through a slayer knock targeting the Indian Embassy in Kabul. The car bomb suicide flack, the deadliest in Kabul since 9/11, marks the closing of the decade-long India-Pakistan surreptitious tweezer war in Afghanistan. The Pakistan ISI-sponsored excise is the clearest sign that the handwear are off: Islamabad is reasserting the construct of strategic depth in Afghanistan and difficult trespasser Metropolis's incursion into its authorized domain of work.

After the dismantlement of the Taliban programme in Kabul, Pakistan has constantly feared encirclement by Bharat especially after the Amerindic Air Cause's new air compound at Farkhor in Tadzhik and through its small force: Economic and benefactor aid which has prefab a scholarly incurvation on Afghans. If the theory of strategic action is a viable one, Bharat deserves ascribe for it conferred it does not mortal close borders with Afghanistan. India's strategic objectives in Afghanistan are superior met with a pro-India Regime in Kabul possession an eye on Pakistan and operation to resource-rich Work Asia.

Islamabad's whimsey of strategic depth in Afghanistan is a keenly debated somebody in Pakistan. Few experts, including previous Blue Supervisor Gen Jehangir Karamat, say it is an superannuated thought, a relic of the Wintry War. Others, including the new Government, dissent. It has, thus, reinvented a author combative variant of countering India's development persuade in Afghanistan which it believes has been encouraged by the Karzai Government to wheel Pakistan.

The Amerind presence in Afghanistan, through its old and new Consulates at Metropolis, Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalalabad and City, has stoked Pakistan's fears that India's R&AW had set up these outposts, especially the net two, bordering Pakistan for functioning backstair dealing against Islamabad. It has supposed that R&AW is assisting the Baluchistan Accomplishment Blue with accumulation and funds to stimulate the ongoing rebellion.

The logic and theory of the India-Pakistan disagreement in Afghanistan is contained in a past document publicized by the US Displace for Strategic and Worldwide Studies, entitled Bharat and Pakistan in Afghanistan: Opposing Sports. Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan person never been worsened than now with Kabul accusing Islamabad of cross-border terrorism in the comparable music as Metropolis has been doing for decades. That makes both India and Afghanistan victims of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism.

It is not retributive in Afghanistan where Pakistan is search strategic depth but also in Jammu & Cashmere, though the strategic think has shifted from easternmost to westernmost with nearly 100,000 troops deployed on the Pakistan-Afghan border. Bulk of these forces were affected low US persuasion after 9/11 and included key strategic force earmarked against Bharat. One of the reasons the Pakistan Grey is reluctant to fisticuffs the soul war in the westward is to acquire the effective equilibrise against Amerind forces in the eastbound.

Other cerebrate is to see the warmth of the killer attacks off Pakistan and learning it to Afghanistan. That is the explanation of the peace deals with the old and new Taleban. That the initiate for the new proxy war between Bharat and Pakistan is to be Afghanistan is confirmed by the Writer House's new interrogatory by Man Linksman, Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. He makes the aggressive right that ISI and Frontier Corps are aiding the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan with the direct aim of equalisation India.

The slayer move, attractive out the defence attaché , the semipolitical counsellor and ITBP guards comes after ternion booming strikes against Butt Anchorage System department this period in north-west Afghanistan. The square assault on the Asian Embassy was unsurprising any case now. It represents a big use to Hesperian efforts to cobble together limited way of cooperation between Bharat and Pakistan rather than outright showdown in Afghanistan.

The India-Pakistan United Anti Threat Mechanism, which has prefab no find in providing clues to any of the recent mortal attacks, could now ruin descending. As the convener of the India-Pakistan Track II, I jazz been trying for the high two life without any modicum of success to stronghold the JATM afloat patch urging old Pakistani Generals and scholars on the seminar circuit to look beyond the fatigued notion of strategic depth. We had agreed to include cooperation in Afghanistan as the ordinal part on the India-Pakistan flower talks and were also exploring new options for cooperation under the SAARC charter.

As all cardinal countries were victims of terrorism, besides the bipartite JATMs, a multilateral frame could be examined, it was agreed. Despite Asiatic requests through the Jirgah, Pakistan has obdurately refused to support India with a craft journeying corridor. Islamabad fears that surpass and cheaper Indian goods would outclass its products. Pakistan feels that India, finished its $ 800 meg bipartite aid schedule - the fifth largest - has low Islamabad to a fringe participant in Afghanistan.

About 4,000 Indians are employed in Afghanistan on projects which also involve 25 confidential companies. The shove areas are structure developing, humanitarian assistance and uninteresting and hominal imagination employment. The age projects are korea by the Asiatic Governance. Nearly 600 ITBP and CISF organisation are deployed for the certificate of these projects. In substance of the latest killer flak, both the warranty structures and surveillance faculty hit to be strong.

June was the bloodiest month in Afghanistan since the war on mortal began in 2001. Regularise Irak was tame by scrutiny. Most worrying is the path of the suicide sandwich which is streaming from Bagdad to Kabul to Islamabad with venomous lethality. The archetypical kill aggress in Afghanistan was in 2004 and nakedness digit that gathering. Incoming twelvemonth, the ascertain augmented to 17. In 2006 and 2007, the image catapulted to 123 and 117. This assemblage, already the score is 66, not to cite the nearly 100 attacks in Pakistan subterminal year.

The killing scenario is scarey as there is no cure to those willing to die. India has so far not fallen on the jihadi slayer itinerary, but the slayer hero has reached our doorstep. The suave cover is credible to crumble in the run up to the Installation election in Jammu & Cashmere afterward this period. Our tidings and counter-terrorism agencies human to fortify up for the new war which must be fought in Afghanistan - and if requisite in Pakistan. If the terrorist danger emanating from Pakistan is not met conjointly by the trey SAARC countries, it faculty get to be fought on India's damage.

Microsoft Joins Icahn in Yahoo Proxy Battle

2008-07-09T05:19:00.000-07:00

Icahn's proxy push to succeed Character's inhabit got a new perversion of clean this forenoon, as Microsoft declared that "after the shareowner election Microsoft would be fascinated in discussing with a new inhabit a leading transaction with Yahoo!, specified as either a dealings to get the "Hunt" role with colossal financial guarantees or, in the choice, purchase the unit affiliate."

Microsoft's abbreviated evidence, available via Character Economics news (yes, I apprise the witticism) follows a statement this forenoon from Icahn to Yahoo shareholders. In it, he writes that if his fight succeeds, "I strongly believe that in real low organization the new table would, matter to its property duties, be presenting to shareholders either a purchase engage for the entire circle or a real winning furnish to purchase "Hunt" with feature had visit conversations, several of which "tally lasted as monthlong as an distance."

Yahoo's greeting? "If Microsoft and Mr. Ballmer really poverty to acquire Character!, we again invite them to work a proposition instantly. And if Mr. Icahn has an very idea for Character! beyond hoping that Microsoft power actually masterly a transaction which they hump repeatedly walked away from, we would be rattling interested in hearing it.”

As Semiconductor Alley Insider notes, a renewed Microsoft message with a new Character committee would belike be for a white control inferior than the newfangled $33 per distribute. Microsoft isn't providing any specifics on what a muckle mightiness face suchlike, let solo a new live or CEO (which the Insider says would be a operative next propose.

As of 1:54pm oriental, Character shares are up 9.84 pct after this current brouhaha.

Three Dollar Tree proxy

2008-06-28T01:15:00.000-07:00

A proposal for annual elections for directors at Dollar Tree Inc. Stores by the California Public Employees' Retirement System has been endorsed by three proxy advisers.

The proposal is on the proxy card for the discount chain's annual shareholders meeting June 19. Supporting the CalPERS decision are proxy advisers Egan-Jones Ratings Co., Glass Lewis & Co. and RiskMetrics Goup.

Dollar Tree (Nasdaq; DLTR), based in Chesapeake Va., has three classes of directors, with each class of director serving three-year terms. CalPERS' proposal seeks annual elections for all board members.

CalPERS owns 377,600 shares of Dollar Tree.

As of April 30, Dollar Tree's financial results have underperformed the Russell 3000 index by 47.4 percent and the Russell Peer Index by 13.9 percent over the past five years.

Over the years, CalPERS has been critical of public companies whose directors have long and staggered terms because it reduces accountability of directors to shareholders.

The pension fund last year put Dollar Tree on its "focus list" of underperfoming companies, primarily for its board structure. With its board structure, the company can entrench management and stymie takeover bids or proxy contests, RiskMetrics said in a prepared statement.

With more than $243 billion in assets, CalPERS is the nation's largest public pension fund.

Investment Group Vows Proxy Fight

2008-06-26T23:18:00.000-07:00

Three investors has disclosed in a long storage with SEC that they play to step? phase a proxy struggles to get three Napster (CARD GAME) board seats. Trio enters in it Perry Rod, what elaborates himself as one self-supporting investors and president from Market Rap LLC, a bevy developing one investor public locations, like also leader The Paradise Project, “ an nonprofit religion organization;” Thomas Sailors, from investment company Cloverdale Investments, and a former managing director in Bank from American Securities; and Kavan Singh, who owns 10 Cold Stone Creamery franchises and other business interests.

Where's Carl Icahn when you requires him?

Trio makes points some interesting, what summarizes to the fact that Napster trades at one particular market cap from $707 million, or almost exactly number of from cashes above of balance. Equally, market ascribes duck's egg to business Napster. “We believe this discrepancy is a result of negative sentiment surrounding almost all music content businesses due to the unresolved effects of piracy, but also due to a lack of confidence in the way the company is governed,” they give voice by writing name of storage of their SEC. They refer that In May 2007, CBS pays $280 million for LastFM; investors quarrels Napster “ may hold considerably more value.”

The three men together hold 648,100 Napster shares, or about a 1.4% stake.

Napster today unchanged close at $148.

Proxy war in Red zone

2008-05-08T01:20:00.000-07:00

ELPAHARI (WEST MIDNAPORE): Ripples of Nepal politics seem to have reached the shores of this “not-so-developed’ district of South Bengal. Even as the Indian Maoists have repudiated Prachanda’s tryst with multi-party democracy, persons having strong Maoist links are contesting the panchayat elections on various party tickets. And this, despite the Maoists’ vote boycott call like in the earlier elections.

Kajal Sardar is a case in point. Sardar’s name was on the West Bengal Police’s “list of most wanted” till a few days ago for her Maoist activities. The same is true for Kalachand Kisku, who served a seven-month jail term for his Maoist links. They are contesting the panchayat elections on Congress ticket. Kisku is fighting from the Bhulabheda gram panchayat.

Instances are galore. Ananda Mura of Banspahari was put behind the bars for nine months for his involvement in violence triggered by the Maoists. Dipak Sardar — another known Maoist activist now out on bail — is the Congress candidate from Banspahari.

There are at least three suspected Maoists on the Jharkhand Party (Naren)’s list of candidates. Even CPM, the worst victim of Maoist actions in the district, has fielded a woman from a family with Maoist links from the the Velaidiha panchayat samiti seat.
According to intelligence sources, the sudden surge in the number of Independent candidates also explains the phenomenon. In Bhulabheda block alone, there are 48 candidates contesting for 10 seats — nine from CPM, 10 from Jharkhand Party, nine from Congress, one from Socialist Party and 19 Independents. PCC member and Belpahari block Congress president Subrata Bhattacharya said, “This is the first election where several victims of state terrorism are contesting. We are giving them full support. They should protest and tell the world how they are living. We are trying to keep them in the mainstream.’

Amiya Sengupta, CPM’s Binpur zonal committee member, said, “We have checked the profiles our candidates. If some family is recorded to have Maoist links, that is police’s fault.’

The Binpur MLA, who is a leader of Jharkhand party (Naren), said, “I have said earlier that it is a joint conspiracy by CPM and police to label our workers as Maoists only to weaken our party.”

Proxy Voting

2008-05-08T01:16:00.000-07:00

A new website helps individual investors better understand proxy voting.

SocialFunds.com -- For many people who own mutual funds and stocks, the proxy voting season seems like a party they were politely invited to, held on the moon and conducted in the Klingon language. In other words, proxy voting can seem confusing, hard to understand, and not worth the drive. The newly launched website www.ProxyDemocracy.org was created to let people quickly and easily learn about proposals and people in front of companies they own shares in so they cast their proxy votes.

Large institutional investors have the resources to pay for proxy voting services and/or have staff members to research the proposals and directors to be voted on at annual shareholder meetings. However, most individual investors don't have the time or money to learn about all the proposals at the companies they own stocks in.

ProxyDemocracy creator and president Andy Eggers-a current PhD candidate in political science at Harvard University-saw a way shareholders could benefit from the research done for institutional investors. Some of these institutional investors like the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) publish online how they plan to vote before the annual meetings, in a move to increase their own transparency and accountability.

"ProxyDemocracy helps individual shareowners see how to vote their shares in ways consistent with their goals, and which mutual funds and pension funds vote in ways consistent with the goals of the individuals who invest through them," said Mark Latham, founder of VoterMedia.org and on the board of directors at ProxyDemocracy.

Latham continued, "The ProxyDemocracy.org website's new Focus List capability lets you compare funds' voting records on any chosen proxy issue (environmental, social, governance, etc.). You can then choose to receive (by email before the voting deadline) future voting decisions of funds you respect, and use that as a guide to voting your own shares."

"Over 50 million households in the US own stocks or mutual funds, and in the great majority the proxy statements go straight to the trash (or recycling, let's hope)," said Eggers. "Our tools are designed to make it easy as possible for people to be represented in this process, whether it's by quickly figuring out whether there's anything worth paying attention to at an upcoming meeting or by buying a mutual fund that has a voting record they can get behind."

Beyond individual investors, Eggers also sees the site as destination for money managers, particularly those catering to SRI-inclined clients, and for some small institutions without a big budget for proxy voting analysis.

The site uses the agendas and votes found on the websites of CalPERS, Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), Domini Social Investments, and Calvert Socially Responsible Mutual Funds for all meetings after July 1, 2007. The agendas and votes for all meetings before July 1, 2007 were collected from SEC filings submitted by mutual funds. Since 2004, the SEC has required investment companies to report all of their proxy votes in an annual filing.

Eggers wrote the computer programs to extract the votes from the SEC filings and from the institutions' websites, and created a single unified database on which ProxyDemocracy.com is built.

A 2006 survey released by Automatic Data Processing (ADP) found that fewer than half of investors reported voting their proxies some or most of the time, and actual voting results suggest that less than half shareholders vote.

Eggers told SocialFunds.com, "I see the site helping investors navigate this process with minimal hassle. It is not worth your time to read the proxy materials or look up mutual fund voting records on the SEC website. We're trying to spare individuals the trouble of going through that, with the hope that broader and more informed participation will not only help investors safeguard their own investments, but also bring about economically and socially beneficial change."

Investors in mutual funds will also find the new site useful to examine how mutual funds vote on the companies they own in their portfolios. Because of the relative ease that some people can change their 401(k) funds, Eggers believes that there is no reason for people to have their money with a fund that doesn't vote the way they want.

"Many funds have very similar portfolios and risk profiles but very different voting records," said Eggers. "For example, Vanguard and Schwab both offer low-cost S&P 500 Index Funds (i.e., their portfolio and investment strategy is identical), but Schwab's fund is much more active on both social and corporate governance issues."

Although most proposals and shareholder annual meetings support a status quo at companies, shareholder activists are finding that proposals-even when they don't receive a majority vote-can be vehicles for change:

Eggers added, "In recent years, shareholder revolts at Disney, Home Depot, and Yahoo were immediately followed by changes in corporate management. Proxy campaigns in the last few years have brought about increased disclosure of corporate political donations at dozens of firms. And behind the scenes, shareholder activists rely on the threat of an embarrassing vote result to extract concessions from recalcitrant executives on a variety of environmental, social, and governance issues."

Proxy Fight againt

2008-05-08T01:13:00.000-07:00

Despite last-ditch efforts to avoid a proxy fight, Charming Shoppes Inc. and a dissident group of investors appeared headed for a showdown over control of the board of directors at the retailer's annual shareholders meeting on Thursday.

The shareholders group, which includes hedge funds Crescendo Partners II and III and Myca Partners Inc., has been unhappy about the retailer's slumping stock. The group has criticized the way executives have managed the company and has taken issue with CEO Dorrit Bern's compensation package.

In a nasty fight that has included the unusual step of a company suing its shareholders, the two sides this week accused each other of inflexibility.

Charming Shoppes said late Monday that the shareholders group had rejected its offer to avoid a proxy contest. Under the proposal, the retailer would appoint one of the group's representatives to its board and also add two other industry veterans of its own choosing.

On Tuesday, the shareholders group accused the retailer of "mischaracterization" of settlement talks. The group said it had countered with a "good faith" offer for two of its representatives to join the board, but the retailer ignored the offer and left it out of the company's announcement.

Such an action "calls into question whether Charming Shoppes ever had a genuine interest in settling this matter," Eric Rosenfeld, chief executive of Crescendo Partners, said in a statement.

The retailer declined to comment beyond its Monday announcement.

Rosenfeld also criticized the retailer's last-minute corporate governance changes, saying that "while corporate governance is important, operational performance is paramount."

The group, which collectively own 9.3 million shares or 7.9 percent of the company, also questioned why the retailer's proposal to end its classified board structure would not take place immediately but in a year. The current setup, in which only a few directors are up for election each year, makes it tougher for outsiders to oust the entire board.

"This board is only willing to do the bare minimum it takes to sway shareholders' votes at the last minute," Rosenfeld said.

The retailer also said it will let its "poison pill" plan expire. Under the plan, a hostile offer leads to a flooding of shares in the market, making it harder to accumulate a controlling interest. Charming Shoppes will also strip Bern of the title of chairman and appoint a non-executive director to the post, leaving Bern president and CEO.

How to hide IP your address

2008-04-01T21:52:00.000-07:00

The most common method to hide your IP address is to use a proxy server in one form or another. A proxy server is a computer that offers a computer network service to allow clients to make indirect network connections to other network services. A client connects to the proxy server, then requests a connection, file, or other resource available on a different server. The proxy provides the resource either by connecting to the specified server or by serving it from a cache. In some cases, the proxy may alter the client's request or the server's response for various purposes.

Proxt Fight

2008-03-26T00:50:00.000-07:00

If Microsoft decides to establish a proxy battle, it would appoint a slate of directors to go command of Yahoo's panel and back the party's proposition. The nominees would be voted on at Yahoo's yearly stockholder encounter in June. A Yahoo-Microsoft proxy battle would be the largest joint proxy battle in the eight years FactSet SharkWatch has been tracking statistics on this, it said.

Microsoft would too risk alienating Yahoo's rank-and-file by taking an unfriendly maneuver. Unlike manufacturing companies with stationary assets, an important Yahoo asset is its technology gift, and an unfriendly access by Microsoft could head to an exodus of Yahoo gift to Google Inc or new Web rivals. Later on Tuesday, Yahoo announced that it had place in spot severance benefits that would be given to all employees who might be laid away if the party was sold.

In a securities filing, Yahoo said if an employee is dismissed without better cause within two years of difference of command in the party, employees would remain to obtain their yearly home wage and sure benefits for at least four months and up to 24 months depending on their stance. "It's just national posturing," said Brenon Daly, an analyst at the 451 Group. A party targeted for acquisition will frequently offer "gilded parachutes" to go maintenance of their employees when the party is in drama, according to Daly.

Microsoft has said it can squeeze away $1 billion in price savings and revenue benefits from the Yahoo acquisition. Analysts require some of the savings to go from a decrease in overlapping areas between the two companies. Microsoft shares drop 14 cents, or 0. 5 percentage, to end at $28. 17 on the Nasdaq. The fund is downward 14 percentage since the offering for Yahoo went national.

Yahoo shed 65 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $29.01. The value of Microsoft's cash-and-stock offer now stands at $28.90.

MySQL Proxy

2008-02-06T03:24:00.000-08:00

What is MySQL Proxy?
MySQL Proxy is an easy plan that sits between your client and MySQL server(s) that can supervise, examine or translate their communication. Its flexibility allows for limitless uses; popular ones include: burden balancing; failover; question analysis; question filtering and alteration; and many much.

Coming Soon!
MySQL Proxy is released under a GPL Licence; in addition, MySQL Enterprise will include several products based on the MySQL Proxy heart engineering. More data coming shortly.

Getting started with MySQL Proxy.
The launching of MySQL Proxy has caused rather a ruckus in the community. And with reason. For characteristic thirsty folk, this is undeniably the almost interesting addition to MySQL lot of tools. If the last assertion has left you baffled, because you wear't view the added value, wear't concern. This clause aims at giving you the feel of what the Proxy can make. Get willing for a fantastic journey to Proxyland.

MySQL Proxy overview.
mysql-proxy is a lightweight binary application standing between one or much MySQL clients and a waiter. The clients link to the proxy with the customary credential, instead of connecting to the waiter. The proxy acts as man-in-the-middle between client and server.

In its basic form, the proxy is just a redirector. It gets an empty bucket from the client (a query), takes it to the server, fills the bucket with data, and passes it back to the client.

If that was all, the proxy would just be useless overhead. There is a little more I haven't told you yet. The proxy ships with an embedded Lua interpreter. Using Lua, you can define what to do with a query or a result set before the proxy passes them along.

Capital Gold Corporation

2008-01-23T02:04:00.000-08:00

NEW YORK, Capital Gold released a statement today regarding the current proxy statement, specifically referencing proposal no. 4.

It has come to attention of Capital Gold Corporation that there is misinformation and a general misunderstanding about proposal no. 4 to be voted on at the Company's annual stockholders' meeting this coming Thursday. That proposal is to amend the Company's certificate of incorporation to permit stockholder action to be taken only at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders and eliminate stockholder action by written consent.

If this proposal is passed, it will not, as some people believe, eliminate stockholders' right to vote by proxy and require stockholders to physically show up at stockholders' meetings. Stockholders would still have the right to vote at any meeting of stockholders by submitting a written proxy.

We urge all stockholders who have yet to vote, to do so today. If you have any questions, please call MacKenzie Partners, Inc. at 1-800-322-2885.

About Capital Gold

Capital Gold Corporation (CGLD:CGC) is a gold production and exploration company. Through its Mexican subsidiaries and affiliates, it owns 100% of the El Chanate gold property in Sonora, Mexico. The proven and probable reserve is now 832,000 ounces of gold. Further information about Capital Gold and the El Chanate Gold Mine is available on the Company's website, www.capitalgoldcorp.com.

Statements in this press release, other than statements of historical information, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. Actual performance and results may differ materially from those projected or suggested due to certain risks and uncertainties, some of which are described below. Such forward-looking statements include comments regarding the establishment and estimates of mineral reserves and non-reserve mineralized material, future increases in mineral reserves, the recovery of any mineral reserves, grade, processing rates and capacity, estimated future gold production, potential mine life and future growth of the company. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include timing of and unexpected events during construction, expansion and start-up; variations in ore grade, tonnes mined, crushed or milled; delay or failure to receive board or government approvals; the availability of adequate water supplies; mining or processing issues, and fluctuations in gold price and costs. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting the Company will be those anticipated by management.

Any forecasts contained in this press release constitute management's current estimates, as of the date of this press release, with respect to the matters covered thereby. We expect that these estimates will change as new information is received and that actual results will vary from these estimates, possibly by material amounts. While we may elect to update these estimates at any time, we do not undertake to update any estimate at any particular time or in response to any particular event. Investors and others should not assume that any forecasts in this press release represent management's estimate as of any date other than the date of this press release. Additional information concerning certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual, results to differ materially from that projected or suggested is contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the past 12 months, copies of which are available from the SEC or may be obtained upon request from the Company.

Proxy Issue

2008-01-23T01:46:00.000-08:00

Shareholder advocates are not holding their breather waiting for the Securities and Exchange Commission to go upward and give proxy approach this year, particularly in light of last year’s 3-1 SEC voting to refuse approach.
However, one marriage is pushing forward to have shareholder-nominated directors onto boards by threatening a tribunal battle over the matter. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has filed four proposals calling for proxy approach—a voting to okay party bylaws that would subsequently permit shareholders to appoint their own directors to that party’s panel—and one proposition to recoup stockholder expenses related to running a slate of directors, if at least one is elected. Rich Ferlauto, manager of joint administration and pension investment at AFSCME, said two or three extra proposals are in the works. “This will be a current tale on the destiny of proxy approach,” he said.

The marriage has been in talks with the four companies—J. P. Morgan Chase, Bear Stearns, Countrywide Financial and E-Trade—to have them to voluntarily concur to permit shareholders a voting on proxy approach. If the companies try to exclude proxy approach proposals from their ballots via SEC no-action letters, “they could be involved in litigation,” Mr. Ferlauto said.

In November, after months of haggling and minus one Democratic commissioner, the SEC voted to remain issuing no-action letters to companies that bar proxy approach proposals from their ballots. That same day, AFSCME filed the proxy approach proposals with J. P. Morgan and Bear Stearns. A few weeks subsequently, the marriage followed upward with proposals at Countrywide and E-Trade.

SEC spokesman John Nester said the authority will not suggest an original proxy approach regulation, which SEC chairwoman Christopher Cox has promised this year, until it has a complete complement of commissioners.

A lawful fight may so be coming. One of the companies, Bear Stearns, has already filed a petition with the SEC for a no-action letter. A spokeswoman for J. P. Morgan said the bank too newly filed a no-action petition, but she declined to offer a transcript of the petition. If the SEC grants those requests—Mr. Nester says it hasn’t still—so it’s backwards to conversant lawful sod: the 2nd U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

From Mr. Ferlauto’s view, the 2nd Circuit is a better spot for proxy approach lawful battles because it is mostly seen as empathetic to stockholder concerns. In 2006, AFSCME brought lawsuit against American International Group in the 2nd Circuit, which ruled that the SEC could not randomly overturn its past stance and forbid proxy approach. Until 1990, the SEC had prohibited companies from excluding proxy approach proposals from their ballots.

The Countrywide proposition may be nixed by Bank of America’s pending acquisition of the mortgage lender. Mr. Ferlauto said he missed B of A’s filing deadline, then if the Countrywide buyout is approved, the party will flee proxy approach for at least one year.

One new option AFSCME is pursuing involves an expense reimbursement proposition it submitted to Apache Corp. That proposition would need the vitality party to recoup the solicitation expenses for a shareholder-nominated brief slate, or half the amount of directors on Apache’s panel, in the case that at least one of those nominees wins.

While some believe the expense proposition is a better backup for proxy approach because it allows shareholders to vie to a level with party ballots, Mr. Ferlauto calls it at better favorable to proxy approach, which he will remain to drive for from the SEC. He anticipates that some firms, including powerful investment investigation firm RiskMetrics, will go away in backing of the expense proposition.

In the meantime, though, other federal agencies are taking a hard line on proxy proposals. Last month, the Department of Labor issued an advisory opinion that said pension plan fiduciaries should vote proxies only on “issues that affect the value of the plan’s investment.” The opinion was written in response to a letter from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which opposes greater proxy access on the grounds that it allows political manipulation of public companies by unions and others.

The DOL expressed worry about proxies being used by pension funds and others as a manner to “encourage specific legislative, restrictive or national policy positions that have no link to the payment of benefits or program management expenses. ” For instance, the DOL advisory view specifically prohibits proxy proposals that ask for joint officers to reveal private political contributions, because the expense involved in soliciting proxy votes would develop no clear-cut welfare to shareholders. Corporate lobbyists lauded the letter. U. S. Chamber president Thomas Donohue said it “sends a clear-cut content that marriage pension trustees need to place workers’ retirement protection first, instead of any political schedule,” adding that “theoretical beliefs” would no longer be satisfactory as justifications for proxy proposals. “This letter gets downward to dollars and cents; either your actions will demonstrably increase pension program returns for workers or they won’t. ”

Proxy firm

2008-01-17T01:09:00.000-08:00

Proxy Governance Inc. has recommended that shareholders withhold their support for the board of directors at Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN), in light of excessive executive compensation in the face of operational underperformance.

Tyson has underperformed its peer group over the past few years, and Proxy argues that the company's management has not done enough to respond to industry challenges including increased feed costs and export restrictions on beef.

In 2007, Tyson stock declined in value while Richard Bond was paid $24.6 million. Tyson says that "it's apparent they haven't done all their homework." But I think that a CEO getting paid $24.6 million while presiding over the destruction of shareholder value is indicative of a compensation committee that hasn't done its homework: Proxy estimated that Tyson chief executives have been paid 82% more than CEOs at other companies in the peer group.

Executive pay is, as a whole, so out of touch with reality that any company that is overpaying so egregiously that it gets the attention of a proxy advisory firm really doesn't have a leg to stand on. Hopefully Tyson shareholder will send a message to the board.

Proxy Battle

2008-01-17T00:50:00.000-08:00

New York hedge fund Ramius Capital Group has been stymied in battle for representation on the board of Luby’s Inc.

Preliminary results indicate that shareholders have reelected four members of the Houston-based cafeteria operator’s panel, rejecting a slate of Ramius-nominated candidates. Luby’s said closing results won’t be accessible for an amount of days.

The hedge stock had blasted the existing panel for an allegedly sweetie trade for its CEO and head operating policeman, the brothers Christopher and Harris Pappas, arguing a debt-for-stock trade they made was overly favourable. Ramius, which owns 7% 0f Luby’s, too complained that the panel and administration have not done enough to encourage its fund cost. The defeat for Ramius comes in spite of backing for several of its candidates from several proxy services. The hedging stock said it may operate another slate of panel candidates next year.

Proxy fight from the boardroom to the courthouse

2007-12-09T19:29:00.000-08:00

OLDSMAR -- A South Florida investor who waged a proxy fight for control of Cryo-Cell International Inc. has asked a judge to put his nominees for directors on the Cryo-Cell board.

David Portnoy said in a lawsuit filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery that Mercedes Walton, chairman and CEO of Cryo-Cell, and four board members engaged in an illegal vote-buying scheme designed to ensure the defeat of Portnoy's dissident slate of nominees during the company's annual meeting July 16.

Walton did not return a call for comment. Portnoy declined to comment on the suit.

A three-day trial was held Nov. 14-16 in the New Castle County division of the chancery court, which is considered the nation's preeminent forum for the determination of business disputes. The judge in the case, Vice Chancellor Leo Strine Jr., reserved a decision, pending the filing of post-trial briefs.

Google free proxy!

2007-12-09T17:55:00.000-08:00

Access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy.
Ok, let's start from the beginning. We all know that Google is more than a search engine; we do use it as provider for email, mapping, news and many other services. Google is now also a free proxy service. Proxy is a device that stands between a PC and the internet, providing all the connections to the world wide web. What a proxy does is to receive all data from a requested site, so when you access web pages all data come from proxy.

What's the purpose for Google as a proxy? We often use office/school/university connections, usually those services are set to provide more safety, blocking the access to undesidered web sites (the "black list"). What you can do now is use Google translator service (language tools) as a proxy to bypass the restrictions set for our connection!

You just need to type the following URL:

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com
(www.forbiddensite.com stands for the URL you need to go to...)

What you'll get is the translation (english to english!) of the page you want to see... your connection is directed to a google.com page so this page won't be blocked (would be blocked only with google.com on the black list), no matter what's the content.

Notice that the URL has been a little hacked because the parameter "langpair"(1) is set to "en|en" (english/english) so the page is processed by Google but you can keep the original language of the page (no need to translate!). If you need another language (e.g. french) you just need to set the parameter langpair to "fr|fr" and you'll be able to read french pages in french!

Proxy Server Guide

2007-12-04T22:30:00.000-08:00

Here is your comprehensive Guide to Proxy Servers, and their usage. Please feel free to browse through and link to any of the following articles
by : proxy-server.info

Microsoft Investigating Vulnerability

2007-12-03T22:59:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Corp. announced that it is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the way Windows resolves hostnames that do not include a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN). The technology that the vulnerability affects is Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD).

The company has not received any information to indicate that this vulnerability has been publicly used to attack customers, and it is not aware of any customer impact at this time. Microsoft said it is aggressively investigating the public reports.

Customers whose domain name begins in a third-level or deeper domain, such as "contoso.co.us", or for whom the following mitigating factors do not apply, are at risk from this vulnerability.

Upon completion of this investigation, Microsoft said it will take the appropriate action to help protect our customers. This may include providing a security update through our monthly release process or providing an out-of-cycle security update, depending on customer needs.

Mitigating Factors:

Customers who do not have a primary DNS suffix configured on their system are not affected by this vulnerability. In most cases, home users that are not members of a domain have no primary DNS suffix configured. Connection-specific DNS suffixes may be provided by some Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and these configurations are not affected by this vulnerability.
Customers whose DNS domain name is registered as a second-level domain (SLD) below a top-level domain (TLD) are not affected by this vulnerability. Customers whose DNS suffixes reflect this registration would not be affected by this vulnerability. An example of a customer who is not affected is contoso.com or fabrikam.gov, where "contoso" and "fabrikam" are customer registered SLDs under their respective ".com" and ".gov" TLDs.
Customers who have specified a proxy server via DHCP server settings or DNS are not affected by this vulnerability.
Customers who have a trusted WPAD server in their organization are not affected by this vulnerability.
Customers who have manually specified a proxy server in Internet Explorer are not at risk from this vulnerability when using Internet Explorer.
Customers who have disabled 'Automatically Detect Settings' in Internet Explorer are not at risk from this vulnerability when using Internet Explorer.

Microsoft has tested the following workarounds. Although these workarounds will not correct the underlying vulnerability, they help block known attack vectors.

Create a WPAD.DAT Proxy Auto Configuration File on a Host Named WPAD in Your Organization to Direct Web Browsers to Your Organization's Proxy
Disable Automatically Detect Settings in Internet Explorer
Disable DNS Devolution
Configure a Domain Suffix Search List

Microsoft has thanked Beau Butler for working with the company and reporting the vulnerability in Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD).

If You've Been Proxy Hacked

2007-11-26T18:04:00.000-08:00

The simplest test, if you are experiencing a problem, is to examine Google search results for a phrase (search term in quotes) that should be unique to your page. For example, if your home page says "Fred's Widget Factory sells the best down-home widgets on Earth" then you can search for that phrase.

You want to use a phrase (or combination of phrases) that should only appear on your page, and nowhere else on the web… or very few places at least. Then you do the search - if there's more than one result (your page), then you need to examine the other URLs that are listed. If some of them are delivering an exact copy of the page, you just may be dealing with a proxy that has hijacked your content.

A typical proxy link looks something like this:
www.example.com/nph-proxy.pl/011110A/http/www.mattcutts.com/blog/
It's easy to see what URL that would fetch, if example.com were a real proxy. Other proxy URLs encode the target URL so it's not always that easy to determine what they're going to fetch just by looking.

The mere presence of proxies in the index doesn't necessarily mean you'll be dropped or penalized. The situation inside Google's systems is no doubt very complex. I have seen sites with multiple proxies indexed, and no ill effects. It's possible that there are certain factors (trust, authority, domain age, etc.) that make one site more susceptible than another. I have no idea how they make the decision on which copy of a page to keep.

If you discover that you have a problem (pages knocked out of the index, -999 "penalty"), and you can identify proxies as duplicate content, a reinclusion request is likely to work in the short term, while you implement countermeasures. If you don't mind sharing your information with me so that I can use it for further research, send an email to proxyreports@gmail.com with the affected URL and the URL of the search result page that shows the proxy duplicates, along with any search terms where your ranking appears to be affected.

Firefox Add-ons

2007-11-22T17:06:00.000-08:00

FoxyProxy 2.5.4
by Eric H. Jung

FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox's proxy configuration. It offers more features than SwitchProxy, ProxyButton, QuickProxy, xyzproxy, ProxyTex, TorButton, etc...

FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox's proxy configuration. It offers more features than SwitchProxy, ProxyButton, QuickProxy, xyzproxy, ProxyTex, TorButton, etc...

Works with:
Firefox: 1.5 – 3.0.0

Instal Now

Reviews for FoxyProxy......

Gmail
by Ronny Tankersley on November 18, 2007 (rated 8)
Works great everywhere but disables chat in Gmail

great addon, latest slightly broken on linux
by speculatrix on September 11, 2007 (rated 9)
this is a really useful tool for the sys and network admins, allowing you to switch proxy in very clever ways
the latest version is a bit buggy on linux - doesn't show the list of proxies defined, and doesn't offer the status bar menu thing - go back to v 2.4 and it works fine.

Good
by BlackHalt on July 22, 2007 (rated 10)
Good for TOR ;)

very good, with a annoying glitch?
by nomo17k on April 22, 2007 (rated 8)
Overall, this is a very useful add-on if you have a need for switching proxies on occasion. However, if you try to launch Firefox to establish a connection at some paid access point (like HotSpot or at airport, which requires you to login using your paid service), the browser simply does not launch properly, even if FoxyProxy is installed (you have to *totally* disable using Tools->Add-ons menu); it seems the initial checking of some sort by FoxyProxy is getting in the way. Other than that, this add-on offers a lot more functions than regular users would need, but is very useful.

Outstanding Wrk
by walking dolphins on April 5, 2007 (rated 9)
I'm very particular abut my internet use which means I manage through a number of proxies and every single connection gets assigned to one of them. With a moderate amount of thought, use of FoxyProxy's White List/Black List features with very easy to use wildcard patterns I have gone from a large amount of address-specific maintenance to basically a completely transparetn system. This tool is fantastic. As for the cautions on privacy, if you subscribe to an annonymizing proxy like anonymizer.com, you can get the best of all worlds.

To the author: I greatly appreciate your work and until you start charging a significant usage fee you owe none of us any apologies, especially for the stuff that is obviously beyond your control. The level of support you provide for this free tool is much higher than most commercial software offers.

aka Marshall

best proxy extension yet
by wish on April 4, 2007 (rated 10)
this is the best one yet.

Proxy+

2007-11-20T01:50:00.000-08:00

Gives the complete solution to accessing the internet from the lan

Firewall increases security by separating LAN from the Internet
Disc cache with advanced manageability
Mail server with intranet mail capability
Automatic sorting of incoming messages
Automatic dialing/hanging-up of a switched telephone line
Support of synchronous and asynchronous dedicated line
WWW server for intranet
Management of all functions via a WWW interface
Lifetime free upgrade, free e-mail support
Full function 3-user free version, 31-days unlimited trial free version

Download the newest version of proxy+ for free

The Solution

2007-11-20T01:36:00.001-08:00

Using an anonymous proxy server you don’t give anybody chance to find out your IP address to use it in their own interests. We can offer you three ways to solve your IP problem:

1. Secure Tunnel - pay proxy server with plenty of features. Effective for personal use, when your Internet activities are not involved in web site development, mass form submitting, etc. The best solution for most of Internet users. Ultimate protection of privacy - nobody can find out where you are engaged in surfing. Blocks all methods of tracking. Provides an encrypted connection for all forms of web browsing, including http, news, mail, and the especially vulnerable IRC and ICQ. Comes with special totally preconfigured software.

2. ProxyWay Pro - multifunctional anonymous proxy surfing software which you can use together with a wide variety of web applications (web browsers, Instant Messengers, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), etc.) to ensure your anonymity. ProxyWay Pro provides an extended proxy management system that enables you to search for, check proxy (multithreaded proxies checking), analyze, validate proxy servers for speed, anonymity, type (HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS), geographical location, create proxy chains. Allows update proxy list automatically using scheduler. ProxyWay Pro lets you clear history, block ads and popups, change User-Agent and Referrer fields, block harm code and much more. Also it can be used as a simple local proxy server.

3. Our own small proxy list is also a good place to start with if you are a novice.

Caching Proxy Server

2007-11-19T00:23:00.000-08:00

By setting your proxy configuration at your web browser program, your browsing speed will increase. Wasantara Net Proxy Server do the following things that can make surfing speed faster :

The route to the ultimate destination is shorter and less troublesome (increasing speed tremendously)
Popular documents that're being accessed by users are kept in our Proxy Server hard drive so it can increase browsing speed.

How to setup proxy

Netscape Navigator
Netscape Communicator
Internet Explorer 2.0 (for Windows 3.1)
Internet Explorer 2.0 (for Windows 95)
Internet Explorer 2.0 (for Macintosh)
Internet Explorer 3.0 (for Windows 95)
Internet Explorer 5.x/6.x (for Windows 9x)
Opera
Other Browser please mail noc@wasantara.net.id

NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR

Run Netscape Navigator
Open Option menu
Choose Network Preferences
Choose Proxies tab (see picture)
Activate Manual Proxy Configuration/B> option
Click View button
Fill HTTP Proxy with proxy.wasantara.net.id and port : 8080 (see picture)
ClickOK to close the dialog box.

NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR

Run Netscape Communicator
Open Edit menu
Choose Preferences
Doble click Advanced
Activate Manual Proxy Configuration
Fill HTTP Proxy with proxy.wasantara.net.id
and Port with 8080 Click OK to close the dialog box.

INTERNET EXPLORER 2.0 (Windows 3.1)

Run Internet Explorer
Open View menu
Choose Option
Choose Proxy tab (see picture)
Fill HTTP with proxy.wasantara.net.id , and port : 8080
Click OK

INTERNET EXPLORER 2.0 (Windows 95)

Open Control Panel
Double click Internet Icon
Activate Use Proxy Server option
Fill Proxy Server field with proxy.wasantara.net.id:8080
Click OK

INTERNET EXPLORER 2.0 (Macintosh)

Run Internet Explorer
Open Edit menu
Choos Option
Choose Proxy tab (see picture)
Fill HTTP Proxy field with proxy.wasantara.net.id ,port:8080
Click OK

INTERNET EXPLORER 3.0 (Windows 95)

Run Internet Explorer
Open View menu
Choose Option
Choose Connection tab
Activate Connect through a proxy server option (see picture)
Click Settings... button
Fill HTTP field with proxy.wasantara.net.id and port:8080 (see picture)
Click OK

INTERNET EXPLORER 5.x/6.x (Windows 9x)

Run Internet Explorer
Open Toolsmenu
Choose Internet Options
Choose Connections menu
Click Lan Setting
Activate Use a Proxy Server
Fill Address field with proxy.wasantara.net.id and port field with 8080
Click OK

OPERA

Run Opera
Open File menu
Choose Preference
Choose Network menu
Click button Proxy Servers
Click HTTP, field with proxy.wasantara.net.id and port field with 8080
Click Ok.

Safe Web Surfing With Web Proxy

2007-11-14T23:40:00.000-08:00

Internet is the modern day storage house of all kinds of information. There are sites that provide information, fun, news, business and great shopping experience. Whatever you want is there on the Internet. That is why more and more people are joining the Internet society everyday. Here we surf through sites to find the desired information or resources. Many people use the facility of web proxy, which is a type of a proxy server. But do you know why such a service is used?

While you are surfing the net, there are people who are always trying to track your location, even your social security number. These people are the hackers and online advertising agencies. They track down information about you and target you.

The advertising agencies will send unwanted advertisements on your email IDs while the hackers are famous for causing a lot of damage. For protecting their information and IDs from such attacks, Internet surfers use web proxy. This facility involves the formation of a proxy ID by a net user. This facility is being provided by many web surfing proxy sites.

For using this unique surfing facility, simply log onto one of the proxy sites. The site will provide a port number and an IP address. This information can then be used for figuring out your web proxy. The proxy IP address and port number that you create at the site can be used by you for protecting your identity and keeping your email free from all kinds of junk emails and spam.

All these emails and information will first come on the proxy IP address that you have created. Whatever information will be found to be important will be forwarded to your original email. This way your email will not get spammed continuously.

Apart from web proxy, such sites also provide CGI proxy. This facility works in the same manner as web proxy but with a little difference.CGI proxy is while visiting a website. Here, a CGI proxy site will develop a script for communication between an Internet user and a website.

The script will not allow the site to procure any kind of information related to the user. It will also prevent the site from storing any cookies on the user's system.

The two services can also be used by downloading or installing the Multi proxy software. There are various sites that provide this software online. After downloading this software, you will be provided with a list of all the proxy servers. This is actually the list of the IP addresses and port numbers that are available on the net. This software is more effective and safe as compared to the web-based sites that offer the service of web proxy.

Web proxy services are also used for increasing the efficiency and speed of a network. The information that is stored in the database of a proxy server is used for the purpose. In this case, a proxy server uses the Internet feature of cache. All the information that a user searches on the Internet is stored in a separate database which is called cache.

Whenever a new user will search for the same information, the proxy server will first search the cache database and then search some where else. This way the time of the user is saved.

Protection from Internet Threats

2007-11-13T02:03:00.000-08:00

A proxy list comprises of SOCKS, HTTPS and HTTP proxy servers all on a single website. Proxies offer the flexibility to the users to form indirect connection of network with other services of computer network. Commonly the compilation of Proxy lists is done through automated software that examines the internet for some common identifiers of proxy that includes HTTP headers or open ports.

The proxy lists are reorganized actively as the proxy servers can be availed in periodic manner. There are proxy lists that can be acquired by the user for no cost, but for others a subscription is necessary.

Several servers are incorporated in a proxy list either inadvertently or sometimes the proxy server is installed spitefully by the criminals of the computer.There are various companies that are offering free proxy services such as Unblock MySpace Proxy, which aid a person in serving the internet secretly and carefully.

Their fast, reliable and at no cost MySpace compatible proxy will aid a person in unclogging MySpace from the filters of web either at offices or at schools. This company is also equipped with the facility to unclog Bebo and Facebook. The services are offered o you free of cost as long as you play pleasant and straight. They do not entertain any sort of malevolent activity and any kind of abuses such as bombing imagery. So, a person who is interested in avail these services should go through the terms and conditions.

There are times when it is essential to look out for information regarding the PHP version that the server is running currently. A person can come across several PHP versions and peculiar settings, by simply running a program of one line from the browser.

The purposes that serve the availability of proxy server list is for helping the administrators to search and cease open access to the proxy servers that is released by fault. There can be a possibility that there are proxies in these proxy lists that were not locked by an administrator of the system or by a home user who is not experienced. So, the administrator of these systems can see through these public listings in order to make sure whether the Internet servers are established or not.

It also serves to aid the people to stay unidentified on the Internet. It is essential to be aware that the public server that is being used is legal by all means. In case a person is using a server that is opened, then sooner or later the administrator will be aware of his error. And, a person should definitely avoid proxy servers for unlawful or spiteful deeds.

The few packages of software that is equipped with multi proxy can be availed with pro and platinum and Ghost Surf standard. This makes anonymous proxy servers as a perfect solution to combat against the spammers as they aid in offering you safety by hiding your IP address and other important information from the webmasters.

Tracert

2007-11-13T01:33:00.001-08:00

Tracert is a low level tool that can be invaluable when diagnosing network problems, it is normally run from a command prompt within Windows, and for the information to be meaningful must be run with no other internet activity being carried out.

To run a tracert from a command prompt type "tracert www.bbc.co.uk" or whatever the site or ip address is that you wish to trace to.

When reading a tracert there are certain things to be aware of, first and most important is that not all routers or web sites respond to icmp traffic and you may see timeouts which do not necessarily indicat a problem. Second is that icmp traffic is generally treated as lowest priority by routers and occasionally abnormally high figures will show up which do not necessarily indicate a problem.

Some sample tracerts and what they mean are shown below.

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 10 ms 11 ms 9 ms 10.149.79.254
3 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms swan-t2cam1-b-ge910.inet.ntl.com [80.0.254.149]
4 29 ms 10 ms 9 ms swa-t2core-b-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com [213.105.225.145]
5 12 ms 31 ms 13 ms win-bb-b-so-220-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.241]
6 19 ms 13 ms 15 ms pop-bb-a-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.201]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 14 ms 15 ms 14 ms 212.58.239.217
9 19 ms 16 ms 16 ms www22.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.122]

Hop 1 is my home network and I would be very concerned if this was showing a response time above 10ms

Hop 2 is the private side of my local UBR, this is the hop that will normally show very high figures if there is too much traffic being fed from my local cable loop. The figure will be higher the further away you are from the UBR and high figures do not necessarily indicate a problem. It is more important that the responses are consistent.
A response of 48 ms 11 ms 83 ms would suggest some issues here.

Hop 3 is the local cam, a big ring road around each headend that routes the traffic to the core.

Hop 4 the core, data is now transferred onto fibre optic cables and transmitted through the service backbone.

Hops 5 and 6 are hops across the ntl backbone - note the bb in the host name, these route the data to the peering point at telehouse.

Hop 7 - This is the interesting one, a repeat of the test reveals that this one is telehouse and first observation would seem to indicate that there is a problem here. (see the same entry in the following example also.)
The router in the first trace appears to drop all packets, and in the second trace appears to drop 33% of packets and to slow the remaining packets down. However this is an example of the low icmp priority and can be seen by looking at Hop 8.

Hop 8 - All traffic reaching hop 8 has to pass through hop 7. The times given for the hop are cumulative through each hop on the trace and the fact that hop 8 shows 100% replies and at low ping times indicates that hop 7 though replying to the traffic very poorly, is actually passing traffic with no problems. Hop 8 is the transfer point from telehouse to the bbc website.

Hop 9 - Final destination. Return times of less than 20ms indicate no problems with this route despite the timeouts on hop 7

Repeat test

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 39 ms 10 ms 9 ms 10.149.79.254
3 10 ms 10 ms 8 ms swan-t2cam1-b-ge910.inet.ntl.com [80.0.254.149]
4 10 ms 12 ms 10 ms swa-t2core-b-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com [213.105.225.145]
5 14 ms 12 ms 24 ms win-bb-b-so-220-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.241]
6 15 ms 16 ms 49 ms pop-bb-a-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.201]
7 43 ms 86 ms * tele-ic-2-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.86]
8 14 ms 20 ms 14 ms 212.58.239.217
9 16 ms 15 ms 14 ms www22.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.122]

OK on this one I am seeing some variation at Hop 2, but hop 3,4,5 are ok suggesting again that the variation on hop 2 should not cause a problem
Hop 7 again looks decidedly dodgy, but again hops 8 and 9 need to be looked at and indicate no problems with data passing though hop 7.

A bad trace from an oversubscribed cable would something like this
(I forced this one by downloading at 980k while running the test)

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 177 ms 25 ms 12 ms 10.149.79.254
3 218 ms 93 ms 154 ms swan-t2cam1-b-ge910.inet.ntl.com [80.0.254.149]
4 198 ms 215 ms 247 ms swa-t2core-b-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com [213.105.225.145]
5 256 ms 175 ms 92 ms win-bb-b-so-220-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.241]
6 210 ms 119 ms 59 ms pop-bb-a-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.201]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 123 ms 143 ms 142 ms 212.58.239.217
9 157 ms 174 ms 179 ms www15.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.115]

OK hop 2 high and variable, but this time note the lag on hop 2 has transferred itself right through the trace and given an average 160ms to the final destination.

This next one would be what I would expect to see where packet loss is involved. I have doctored this as it is very difficult to find a proper example.

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 39 ms 10 ms 9 ms 10.149.79.254
3 10 ms 10 ms 8 ms swan-t2cam1-b-ge910.inet.ntl.com [80.0.254.149]
4 10 ms * 10 ms swa-t2core-b-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com [213.105.225.145]
5 * 12 ms * win-bb-b-so-220-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.241]
6 15 ms * 49 ms pop-bb-a-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.201]
7 43 ms * * tele-ic-2-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.86]
8 * 20 ms 14 ms 212.58.239.217
9 16 ms * * www22.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.122]

Note packet loss here starting at Hop 4 will transfer itself right through the trace as traffic from hop 5 and above needs to pass through the troublesome hop.

My last example is to a site in the USA

Tracing route to www2.microsoft.akadns.net [207.46.250.252]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 9 ms 9 ms 11 ms 10.149.79.254
3 9 ms 9 ms 10 ms swan-t2cam1-a-ge910.inet.ntl.com [80.0.254.21]
4 9 ms 12 ms 10 ms swan-t2cam1-b-ge11.inet.ntl.com [80.0.255.10]
5 10 ms 11 ms 10 ms swa-t2core-b-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com [213.105.225.145]
6 13 ms 33 ms 12 ms win-bb-b-so-220-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.241]
7 15 ms 15 ms 43 ms P4-0.BRSBB1.Pop.opentransit.net [193.251.254.145]
8 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms So5-0-0.LONCR1.London.opentransit.net [193.251.243.242]
9 92 ms 91 ms 92 ms P3-0.NYKCR3.New-york.opentransit.net [193.251.243.21]
10 98 ms 111 ms 96 ms P12-0.OAKCR1.Oakhill.opentransit.net [193.251.242.254]
11 97 ms 97 ms 99 ms So4-0-0.ASHBB1.Ashburn.opentransit.net [193.251.248.109]
12 97 ms 120 ms 98 ms 207.46.45.69
13 96 ms 98 ms 100 ms 207.46.46.129
14 97 ms 99 ms 98 ms 207.46.34.25
15 189 ms 191 ms 189 ms 207.46.33.61
16 190 ms 188 ms 188 ms 207.46.36.214
17 195 ms 191 ms 191 ms 207.46.155.13
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.

Points of interest here are hop 9 time jumps from 19 to 90ms, this is entirely normal for traffic crossing the Atlantic. Data travels through cables at the speed of light, and even at this speed there is a huge overhead on data being bounced off a server in USA.
Hop 15 this is New York on the east coast of the USA to Seattle on the West coast, another huge jump is to be expected.
Hop 18 and onwards. This does not indicate a problem with the final destination, merely that the Microsoft servers are blocked to UDP and ICMP traffic. The site responds fine to page requests.

Anonymous Proxy

2007-11-06T21:39:00.000-08:00

An anonymous proxy is a piece of software designed to protect the privacy and anonymity of web browsers from web site operators, Internet snoops, and even unfriendly governments.

The anonymous proxy software resides on a proxy server. The web browser connects to the proxy server and the proxy server connects to the web server.

The web server does not know who you are, it only knows who the proxy server is. The proxy server does know who you are -- so you had better choose a proxy server that you trust.

A good web proxy will allow you to setup a TLS or SSL tunnel. This will prevent packet sniffers from eavesdropping on you while you are surfing anonymously.

Some anonymous proxy servers support FTP, while others only support HTTP. Better anonymous proxy servers also support HTTPS. Make sure to select an anonymous proxy server which supports the protocols you wish to use.

In addition to hiding your IP address, an anonymous proxy server will typically remove traffic such as:

Cookies
Pop-ups
Banners
Scripts
Referrer information

These options should be configurable by the end-user to enable to proxy server to work with web sites which require cookies or pop-ups.

Articles on how to build a successful proxy website!

2007-11-06T20:46:00.000-08:00

Here’s a list of articles and links that might help you run a more efficient and effective proxy website using my templates. I definitely recommend you bookmark this page immediately :

Immortality’s Proxy Secrets
A straight forward guide on how to optimize, run and maximize revenue with your proxy websites.
IP Unblock - Building & making money with your proxy site
Another in-depth guide on how to monetize and get traffic to your proxy website.
Get A Proxy
A five step tutorial on how to start a proxy website from scratch, from picking your host to choosing your proxy script to getting traffic.
Proxy Users Network
A discussion forum for Proxy Webmasters. Learn everything there is to know about running a proxy website. You will also get to meet up with other proxy webmasters in the community and share and tell your experiences with each other.
Bypasser.org
A proxy toplist site that provides proxy users and webmasters with great relevant tools and information.
Mubin Ahmed
This guy writes amazing up-to-date articles concerning proxy websites.
Proxy: Introduction and Installation
A simple article detailing the installation process of setting up your own proxy site.
Proxy: Earning and Maximising Profits
Great article, telling you some of the ways you can maximize your proxy websites revenue.
Free 2 Surf Privacy Blog
A great proxy blog site containing in depth information on proxies, proxy scripts and templates.
IP Unblock - Proxy hosting
How to pick the right Proxy Hosting for you!
443 Proxy
A proxy website containing various articles and guides on how to optimize your proxy website.
Dave Turnbull’s - Making a successful proxy
A massive 7 page article guide on how to run a proxy website. He literally covers everything you need to know about building a successful proxy website.
Proxy Bucket Directory
Various articles related to running, monetizing, optimizing and designing a proxy website.
Proxy Sphere
Another set of great articles on how to optimize a proxy website with your server configurations.
Payment Blogger - Pros and Cons
Great article outlining the Pros and the Cons of making a proxy website.
Web Proxy Blog
A relatively new blog dedicated to helping users like yourself make money from proxy websites.
Proxy.Org Forum
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Proxy servers implement one or more of the following functions

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Caching proxy server

A proxy server can service requests without contacting the specified server, by retrieving content saved from a previous request, made by the same client or even other clients. This is called caching. Caching proxies keep local copies of frequently requested resources, allowing large organizations and Internet Service Providers to significantly reduce their upstream bandwidth usage and cost, while significantly increasing performance. There are well-defined rules for caching. Some poorly-implemented caching proxies have had downsides (e.g., an inability to use user authentication).

Web proxy

Proxies that focus on WWW traffic are called web proxies. Many web proxies attempt to block offensive web content. Other web proxies reformat web pages for a specific purpose or audience (e.g., cell phones and PDAs for persons with disabilities).

Many organizations — including schools, corporations, and countries — use proxy servers to enforce acceptable network use policies (see content-control software) or to provide security, anti-malware, and caching services. A traditional web proxy is not transparent to the client application, which must be configured to use the proxy (manually or with a configuration script). In some cases, where alternative means of connection to the Internet are available (e.g., a SOCKS server or NAT connection), the user might be able to avoid policy control by simply resetting the client configuration and bypassing the proxy. Furthermore, administration of browser configuration can be a burden for network administrators.

Access control: Some proxy servers implement a logon requirement. In large organizations, authorized users must log on to gain access to the WWW. The organization can thereby track usage to individuals.

Anonymizing proxy server

A proxy server that removes identifying information from the client's requests for the purpose of anonymity is called an anonymizing proxy server or anonymizer.

Hostile proxy

Proxies can also be installed by online criminals, in order to eavesdrop upon the dataflow between the client machine and the web. All accessed pages, as well as all forms submitted, can be captured and analyzed by the proxy operator. For this reason, passwords to online services (such as webmail and banking) should be changed if an unauthorized proxy is detected.

ntercepting proxy server

An intercepting proxy (often incorrectly called "transparent proxy") combines a proxy server with a Gateway. Connections made by client browsers through the gateway are redirected through the proxy without client-side configuration (or often knowledge).

Intercepting proxies are commonly used in businesses to prevent avoidance of acceptable use policy, and to ease administrative burden, since no client browser configuration is required.

It is often possible to detect the use of an intercepting proxy server by comparing the external IP address to the address seen by an external web server, or by examining the HTTP headers on the server side.

Transparent and non-transparent proxy server

The term "transparent proxy" is most often used incorrectly to mean "intercepting proxy" (because the client does not need to configure a proxy and cannot directly detect that its requests are being proxied).
However, offers different definitions:
"A 'transparent proxy' is a proxy that does not modify the request or response beyond what is required for proxy authentication and identification.
"A 'non-transparent proxy' is a proxy that modifies the request or response in order to provide some added service to the user agent, such as group annotation services, media type transformation, protocol reduction, or anonymity filtering."

Forced proxy

The term "forced proxy" is ambiguous. It means both "intercepting proxy" (because it filters all traffic on the only available gateway to the Internet) and its exact opposite, "non-intercepting proxy" (because the user is forced to configure a proxy in order to access the Internet).

Forced proxy operation is sometimes necessary due to issues with the interception of TCP connections and HTTP. For instance interception of HTTP requests can affect the usability of a proxy cache, and can greatly affect certain authentication mechanisms. This is primarily because the client thinks it is talking to a server, and so request headers required by a proxy are unable to be distinguished from headers that may be required by an upstream server (esp authorization headers). Also the HTTP specification prohibits caching of responses where the request contained an authorisation header.

Open proxy server

Main article: open proxy
Because proxies might be used for abuse, system administrators have developed a number of ways to refuse service to open proxies. IRC networks such as the Blitzed network automatically test client systems for known types of open proxy. Likewise, an email server may be configured to automatically test e-mail senders for open proxies, using software such as Michael Tokarev's proxycheck.

Groups of IRC and electronic mail operators run DNSBLs publishing lists of the IP addresses of known open proxies, such as AHBL, CBL, NJABL, and SORBS.

The ethics of automatically testing clients for open proxies are controversial. Some experts, such as Vernon Schryver, consider such testing to be equivalent to an attacker portscanning the client host. [1] Others consider the client to have solicited the scan by connecting to a server whose terms of service include testing.

Split proxy server

A split proxy is a proxy implemented as two programs installed on two different computers. Since they are effectively two parts of the same program, they can communicate with each other in a more efficient way than they can communicate with a more standard resource or tool such as a website or browser. This is ideal for compressing data over a slow link, such as a wireless or mobile data service, as well as for reducing the issues regarding high latency links (such as satellite internet) where establishing a TCP connection is time consuming.

Taking the example of web browsing, the user's browser is pointed to a local proxy which then communicates with its other half at some remote location. This remote server fetches the requisite data, repackages it, and sends it back to the user's local proxy, which then unpacks the data and presents it to the browser in the standard fashion.

Some Web accelerators are proxy servers. Some reduce the quality of JPEG images to speed transmission. Some use a split proxy with special protocols and local and remote caching. (See Google Web Accelerator.)

Reverse proxy server

Main article: reverse proxy
A reverse proxy is a proxy server that is installed in the neighborhood of one or more web servers. All traffic coming from the Internet and with a destination of one of the web servers goes through the proxy server. There are several reasons for installing reverse proxy servers:

Security: the proxy server is an additional layer of defense and therefore protects the web servers further up the chain.
Encryption / SSL acceleration: when secure web sites are created, the SSL encryption is often not done by the web server itself, but by a reverse proxy that is equipped with SSL acceleration hardware. See Secure Sockets Layer.
Load balancing: the reverse proxy can distribute the load to several web servers, each web server serving its own application area. In such a case, the reverse proxy may need to rewrite the URLs in each web page (translation from externally known URLs to the internal locations).
Serve/cache static content: A reverse proxy can offload the web servers by caching static content like pictures and other static graphical content.
Compression: the proxy server can optimize and compress the content to speed up the load time.
Spoon feeding: reduces resource usage caused by slow clients on the web servers by caching the content the web server sent and slowly "spoon feeds" it to the client. This especially benefits dynamically generated pages.
Extranet Publishing: a reverse proxy server facing the Internet can be used to communicate to a firewalled server internal to an organisation, providing extranet access to some functions while keeping the servers behind the firewalls.rainier

Circumventor

A circumventor is a method of defeating blocking policies implemented using proxy servers. Ironically, most circumventors are also proxy servers, of varying degrees of sophistication, which effectively implement "bypass policies".

A circumventor is a web-based page that takes a site that is blocked and "circumvents" it through to an unblocked web site, allowing the user to view blocked pages. A famous example is 'elgooG', which allowed users in China to use Google after it had been blocked there. elgooG differs from most circumventors in that it circumvents only one block.

The most common use is in schools where many blocking programs block by site rather than by code. Students are able to access blocked sites (games, chatrooms, messenger, offensive material, internet pornography, etc.) through a circumventor. As fast as the filtering software blocks circumventors, others spring up. It should be noted, however, that in some cases the filter may still intercept traffic to the circumventor, thus the person who manages the filter can still see the sites that are being visited.

Circumventors are also used by people who have been blocked from a web site.

Another use of a circumventor is to allow access to country-specific services, so that Internet users from other countries may also make use of them. An example is country-restricted reproduction of media and webcasting.

The use of circumventors is usually safe with the exception that circumventor sites run by an untrusted third party can be run with hidden intentions, such as collecting personal information, and as a result users are typically advised against running personal data such as credit card numbers or passwords through a circumventor.

At schools and offices

Many work places and schools are cracking down on the web sites and online services that are made available in their buildings. Since circumventors are used to bypass censors in computers, web sites like MySpace, Bebo, Xanga, Runescape, Youtube, Miniclip, Facebook, and other non-work or school related social web sites have become targets of mass banning.

Proxy Web server creators have become more clever allowing users to encrypt links, and any data going to and from other web servers. This allows users to access websites that would otherwise have been blocked.

A special case of web proxies are "CGI proxies". These are web sites that allow a user to access a site through them. They generally use PHP or CGI to implement the proxying functionality. CGI proxies are frequently used to gain access to web sites blocked by corporate or school proxies. Since they also hide the user's own IP address from the web sites they access through the proxy, they are sometimes also used to gain a degree of anonymity, called "Proxy Avoidance".

POP3 and SMTP proxies

Proxies are also used in email applications. Client-side anti-spam software often installs itself as a POP3 proxy, which permits it to filter the mail. Meanwhile, SMTP proxies are often installed by anti-virus software, so as to intercept any viruses that are sent onto the internet by that computer.

Approaches to proxy

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Proxies are commonly used for several reasons: security, load balancing, data caching in order to reduce bandwidth demands, and censorship or filtering. Filtering proxies insulate you from objectionable elements of Webpages such as cookies, ad banners, dynamic content like Javascript, Java Applets and ActiveX controls. Some anonymous proxies encrypt your Web communications, protecting you from routine monitoring or even dedicated surveillance. Be careful, though, not all proxies are anonymous! Here is an overview of the basic approaches to proxy:

Web-based Proxies: Web-based Proxies are powered by server-side softwares such as CGIProxy, PHProxy, Poxy, and custom proxy scripts. These proxies work entirely through a Web browser. Usually all that is needed to hide your IP address and surf anonymously is to visit the service's homepage in a Web browser and enter a URL (website address) in the form provided. There is no requirement to download or install software or reconfigure your computer. To work, a CGI based proxy must manipulate the document you've requested and all its associated elements and objects. This can be tricky, and not all proxies are as efficient or effective as others. Some services are slow and may produce errors while rendering the many variations of Web page code. But they are popular, numerous, and easy to use. See this page for a complete list of Web proxies.
Open Proxies: So-called "open proxies" are HTTP or SOCKS type proxy servers that are accidently or maliciously left "open" and accessible on the Internet. HTTP or SOCKS type proxy servers require that you configure your browser's proxy settings in order to use them. These proxies have the advantage of being compatible with almost all webpages since they do not have to modify the requested page to keep you anonymous. However, there are several major disavantages to using open proxies. Many utilize computers that are compromised, operated by government agencies, or operated by malicious individuals. Often when an attacker obtains control of an end-user's computer they will install a proxy server so the machine can be exploited to launch further attacks on other machines. It is also commonplace for open proxies to be operated as "honey pots", where all actions are logged for forensic research. Open proxies are easy to abuse and there are many people using them to commit credit card fraud, pay-per-click fraud, attack or break into computers, and hundreds of other illegal activities. We strongly discourage the use of open proxies as they provide no privacy or security and using them can result in increased exposure and liability.
Proxy networks: Various proxy networks (Freenet, I2P, JAP, and TOR) feature layered encryption (sometimes called "onion routing") and peer-to-peer networking to allow their users to communicate anonymously with each other. Rather than operate their own equipment, most rely on end-users to donate bandwidth and other resources to the network. They do not control the servers in their network and certainly a percentage of them are operated by malicious individuals for malicious reasons. Therefore any promises of privacy and security should be evaluated with this in mind. Also, these services have developed a reputation for being relatively slow.
Proxy Software: Other subscription-based services offer client-side application software to automatically configure your browser's proxy settings. Do not be fooled by these services as most are merely open proxies dressed up with a fancy interface.