Thursday, April 21, 2011

Re: [BLUG] Simple wish list for Android

On Thursday 21 April 2011 10:59:30 AM Simón Ruiz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Williams, Jeffery Allen
>
> <jefjewil@indiana.edu> wrote:
> > There are a couple of applications that will setup a proxy server ASProxy
> > in the market and Transparent Proxy in other places. Unfortunately they
> > require root access on the phone. I'm not sure everyone is up to this.
> > I also vaguely remember this being brought up as part of a future
> > version of Android.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeffery Williams
> >
> > Software Engineer
> >
> > ISAT Hall
>
> Yeah, that's been my experience.
>
> The free ones I've used either don't seem to work on the devices I
> tried them on, which makes me not too enthusiastic about them, or
> require root. And I can't expect all my users to have root, or to want
> to root their phones.
>
> I also don't want to point them to pay apps for simple functionality I
> used to think of as mostly universal.
>
> I mean, I can set up all kinds of other crappy little embedded systems
> to work right on our network, any PC you can throw at me, and most
> handheld devices (including iOS)...but not my Android phone or tablet.
>
> That just kind of hurts.
>
> Simón
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this isn't actually android's fault to be honest. After a little digging
proxy is availble in most 3rd party roms it seems and even in aosp. This
seems to be a issue of the handset manufacters leaving out the functionality

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Re: [BLUG] Simple wish list for Android

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Williams, Jeffery Allen
<jefjewil@indiana.edu> wrote:
> There are a couple of applications that will setup a proxy server ASProxy in
> the market and Transparent Proxy in other places.  Unfortunately they
> require root access on the phone.  I'm not sure everyone is up to this.  I
> also vaguely remember this being brought up as part of a future version of
> Android.
>
>
>
> Jeffery Williams
>
> Software Engineer
>
> ISAT Hall

Yeah, that's been my experience.

The free ones I've used either don't seem to work on the devices I
tried them on, which makes me not too enthusiastic about them, or
require root. And I can't expect all my users to have root, or to want
to root their phones.

I also don't want to point them to pay apps for simple functionality I
used to think of as mostly universal.

I mean, I can set up all kinds of other crappy little embedded systems
to work right on our network, any PC you can throw at me, and most
handheld devices (including iOS)...but not my Android phone or tablet.

That just kind of hurts.

Simón

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Re: [BLUG] Simple wish list for Android

There are a couple of applications that will setup a proxy server ASProxy in the market and Transparent Proxy in other places.  Unfortunately they require root access on the phone.  I’m not sure everyone is up to this.  I also vaguely remember this being brought up as part of a future version of Android. 

 

Jeffery Williams

Software Engineer

ISAT Hall

 

From: blug-bounces@cs.indiana.edu [mailto:blug-bounces@cs.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of Simón Ruiz
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:11 PM
To: Fort Wayne Linux Users Group; Bloomington LINUX Users Group
Subject: [BLUG] Simple wish list for Android

 

HTTP proxy settings for the WiFi interface.

It really sucks that I can set up our students and faculty with iOS devices to get out to the Internet through our proxy, but not the Android users.

Anyone know of a good apk that might give me HTTP proxy functionality on Android?

If I could at least offer them an app to install, that'd be *something*.

Simón

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

[BLUG] Simple wish list for Android

HTTP proxy settings for the WiFi interface.

It really sucks that I can set up our students and faculty with iOS devices to get out to the Internet through our proxy, but not the Android users.

Anyone know of a good apk that might give me HTTP proxy functionality on Android?

If I could at least offer them an app to install, that'd be *something*.

Simón

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Re: [BLUG] Evolution and IU's Exchange servers

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I have been using Microsoft Exchange Data Provider with mixed success:

http://gitorious.org/lightning-exchange-provider/pages/Home

There are many caveats: you must use .11 and not .12 or you seem to get
locked out in AD. Your passphrase will not get saved in the password
manager...if you sausage-finger the passphrase, you will get locked out
in AD.

You could also try the davmail gateway, but I have not played with it in
some time...issues with repeating events and ghost events:

http://davmail.sourceforge.net/index.html

I would love to endorse any of these, but they are NOT READY FOR PUBLIC
USE in IU's Exchange environment. I have put the occasional bug report
in, but other tasks slowed that down for me.

Essentially, you still occasionally need OWA or the Outlook client.

Robert

On 03/31/2011 02:39 PM, Steven Black wrote:
> Personally, if the web version doesn't work (it has gotten better --
> the current version doesn't use a "Lite" version in Firefox) then your
> best bet is to use RDP to a Windows machine or a Windows VM. Since you
> only really need it for creating meetings, you don't need the VM
> consuming resources most of the time.
>
> The problem with a Windows VM is that it is almost impossible to get
> anything other than XP to run without assigning most of your resources
> to the VM. (And Windows XP is a bit on the old side, so may not be
> available with security updates anymore.)
>
> I actually had more luck with RDP than with a VM.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Black
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Kelly McEvilly <kellym@wbhcp.com> wrote:
>> I used the same Thunderbird/Lightning setup with my Zimbra mail server and
>> it worked flawlessly for all calendaring functions. Zimbra has their own
>> mail client which I use now.
>>
>> The Zimbra Ajax web client also works perfectly for any type of
>> calendaring. I believe even the HTML client gives access to all
>> calendaring.
>>
>> I swear I'm not bringing this up just to rub salt in the wounds of all the
>> MS Exchange slaves...
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chris Colvard" <cjcolvar@indiana.edu>
>> To: blug@cs.indiana.edu
>> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:32:11 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: Re: [BLUG] Evolution and IU's Exchange servers
>>
>> I've used Thunderbird and the Lightning plugin to add meeting requests to my
>> local or google calendar. Over time this has proven to be rather flaky, but
>> has sort of worked. I was not able to create any meetings in the Exchange
>> server though.
>>
>> -Chris Colvard
>>
>>
>> On 03/31/2011 12:17 PM, Williams, Jeffery Allen wrote:
>>
>> Is the web version of exchange unreasonable? <www.exchange.iu.edu>
>> I never found a good solution. My work is so MS centric, I ended up making a
>> winXP virtual machine.
>> Jeffery Williams
>> Software Engineer
>> IU Cyclotron Operations
>> --
>> Warning! Sent from my Android phone.
>>
>> Brian Wheeler <bdwheele@indiana.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone gotten this to work, for calendaring in particular?
>>>
>>> I'm using imap to access mail on the exchange servers, but I really need
>>> to get calendaring. Barring that, does anyone have a reasonable way
>>> (outlook in a vm isn't reasonable) to deal with exchange calendaring?
>>>
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

[BLUG] [SPAM:### 82%] Hi!!!

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something phenomenal but I have been using this stuff that my doc
recommended for fat loss and I have lost 8 lbs in a week. Two of my
friends who just began using it also lost 7 lbs each.
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[BLUG] [SPAM:### 82%] Hi!!!

T my friends,i'm never one to recommend a product unless its really
something phenomenal but I have been using this stuff that my doc
recommended for fat loss and I have lost 8 lbs in a week. Two of my
friends who just began using it also lost 7 lbs each.
http://poweredslim.com p.s. that site sells it for 50% less as much as
other sites
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