It’s always a tough call when you find something cool whether to keep it to yourself and enjoy the privacy, or whether to tell others and share in the joy. Kind of like sharing the existence of a really good, unknown restaurant, or a nice quiet spot in the park. It’s great as it is, but it’s difficult not to want to tell people about it.
I’ve always known getting around the pesky “Connection reset” problem was relatively simple provided you had access to someone else’s machine outside China. This was always easier said than done for me, however, until today. Turns out you can accomplish this with NoMachine’s NX Client software and one of their test servers. You log on to their server as a guest (I’m not going to tell you how. That’s what Google is for 
), use the web browser that’s built in (Konqueror), and off you go. It’s faster than Privoxy/Tor, and you don’t have to worry about enabling Privoxy/Tor for every other website.
Of course, this will only work until China blocks access to No Machine’s website, but this will only prevent new users from gaining access to the test server. If you download the .nxs file and save it for later, then open it, there’s not much our dear old Communist Party can do short of blocking SSH connections altogether, which they won’t do. This is the beauty of the thing. 
The other thing that might happen though, is if thousands of people try this at the same time, NoMachine’s test servers will get overloaded and they’ll have to take them down. That will be a shame when it happens, but for at least a couple of months this should work alright. I don’t know if this has been documented somewhere, but if isn’t, now it is.
Enjoy.
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