Well, it seems I've almost abandoned my website here. I never even finished the pages for the projects category, wow. I really should do something with this site. I'll probably actually do something with this site over the summer, though I do have a couple of other website projects I'm tentatively planing for the summer: a redesign of my scout troop's site and a small wiki-ish/database-ish web app for robotics.
The last time I was going to try to post to this blog, my phone ate the post. Well, it was surprising that I had internet at all. Yeah, there's a story there. I was at the Education Service Center for one reason or another, and I thought "Hey, do they have wifi here?" So I went ahead and actually managed to connect my phone to the network by using settings somewhat similar to the following (this is from memory):
- WEP with "automatically provided key"
- PEAP selected in the 802.1x settings (I think. It was whatever it automatically asked me for a password with)
- The normal TPS user/pass/domain info was entered as "me\wasstudent" for the username and the normal password
- Maybe because I wasn't using an MSIE based browser, I had to put http://bluecoat.tulsaschools.org:8080/ as my proxy. I don't remember now, but it likely also required authentication. I also don't remember if this hypothetical authentication needed the domain specified either, but I'm guessing not.
After using all those settings, I managed to get a perfectly normal connection to the TPS network and its connection to the internet. Well "perfectly normal" as far as Bluecoat's filtering of the internet is normal at all.
This was fairly surprising, considering at school, where we are supposed to be able to connect to the wifi, I can't get further than a US Robotics captive web portal.
I should have been actually able to post to this blog the first time I tried, I think I managed to crash Windows Mobile on my phone or something. (Windows Mobile crashing is not particularly uncommon).