I’m stuck with dialup because my parents won’t buy anything else. However, myschool has a high-speed connection. I can’t download any programs using it, though. They’ve blocked a ton of proxies, anybody know of any web-based ones that nobody’s ever heard of? (No programs to download, though–see above.)
I remember that Riven had a clever trick which was to use Google’s language translation site to translate from English to English. I haven’t tried it myself though.
What an inconvenience for you that your school would do that. So do they count JGO & java sites as contraband that’s off-limits? 
Thankfully JGO is apparently OK but I still want to find a good proxy just in case. You wouldn’t believe how many they’ve blocked. I Googled “proxies” and the first 100 sites on the list were all blocked.
Tx for the tip, but that only works for web pages. I’d like to be able to download programs too. However tx a lot for the translator tip because for some reason the style sheet for JGO is blocked and none of the images show up.
I thought about writing my own Web browser in Java, which I did, but the firewall blocked that too. I figured it probably would but I wanted to try anyway.
PS- The English to English translation option does not work because English to English is not an option. I can understand French so I tried translating a page into French from English, which was an option. However I got this instead:
Access has been Denied!
Access to the page:
… has been denied for the following reason:
Blanket Block is active and that site is not on the white or grey list.
You are seeing this error because what you attempted to access appears to contain, or is labeled as containing, material that has been deemed inappropriate.
If you have any queries contact your teacher or librarian.
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If that helps…
Mega-hack: go to www.freetranslation.com and click on Website Translation. At the bottom is Free Instant Website Translation. Click that, then translate the site into French or something. Then select click Translate Again and translate the French into English again. Voila!
Kinda cool:
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Le 03 octobre, 2006, 08:08:18 est
Ofcourse it’s not an option… :
Just modify the URL