If you are using Amarok in GNOME, then you need to check out this tip in order to set a proxy for Amarok.

Squid is one of the best caching web proxy servers out there. Although it provides a number of  amazing features but the default error page which is served by Squid is very basic and does not look good. So if you are a system administrator you may like to customize or change the default [...]

ACL stands for Access Control List and specifies who is allowed to access what and what operations are allowed by whom on a system. Squid Proxy Server uses ACLs to control access to the Squid proxy daemon. In this article we will tell you some points about ACL configuration in Squid.
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So your college is restricting the sites you can visit? And they have also blocked all the proxy sites you know? What do you do then?
Make your own proxy site of course ! You don’t have to be a geekto make a proxy site. Here we are going to make a [...]

We are going to make use of three environment variables of PHP in order to code this simple PHP class that returns the real IP address of a visitor, even when connecting via a proxy. The three PHP environment variables we`ll use are
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