Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive
You have to configure in the advanced network connection to use a proxy. Then you use th local port 3128 as the proxyport which is tunnels with ssh to the remote server on port 3128.  This trick can be used for any port which should be tunneled.
Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive

Tiny Networkinterface Monitor (TNM) was written to practice bash scripting. It's analyzing any interface usage (I used it for my DSL connection) . I generates a pseudo graphical representation of the receive and send usage in % of the interface bandwidth an usage in KBs .

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive
wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
 
wget -q -O - ip http://ip1.dynupdate.no-ip.com/; cat ip