Submission + - Geeks in Asia Use Clever Hacks To Get /.
Daedius writes: "My comrade Hugh Perkins is living in Asia and he has been without internet for many days! He uses l33t hacks to get his daily dose of /. in desperate times. He also works on the Open Source Metaverse Project with me. He sends me his code updates while lacking access to SVN.
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"The Taiwan earthquake has brought telecommunications in the Taiwan/Hong Kong region to a standstill. I am living in Shenzhen and am unable to read slashdot directly for several days
gmail and google have privileged bandwidth and local servers. Both gmail and google continue to work perfectly from the region. Could there be some way to use google or gmail to read slashdot?
A solution was to upload an executable to my webhosting in America that would receive zipped executables by email, execute them, then email me the results.
This works great! Here's some screenshots"
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http://manageddreams.com/slashdotviagmail/"
