After spending some more time getting acclimatized to the office and having some pleasant, albeit, seemingly, subject-less conversations I managed to take care of more administrative matters and familiarize myself with the ongoing projects further. In the afternoon, the curiosity got the better of me and I started poking around the network setup at the office in order to see what kind of coverage I could get for the Champs League El Classico only to discover the restrictions imposed on WAN access are worse than I thought. Besides blocking freeware/shareware (Putty website is blocked!), the proxies block several common protocols, encrypted traffic, and some random websites that came up on Google's search results.
I had a chance to start working my way around the proxies only to find I couldn't manually authenticate with any of them. This was disappointing and I will continue to try and get through, however, even SSH-ing to the outside world is, well, impossible, without authentication with the proxy, so simply routing the traffic properly is insufficient.
Heh, bending rules here and there arn't too bad. Cheers!
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