Thankfully over the last few years – connecting securely & joining your workstations to the Tor network have become a lot easier – for both Linux & Windows clients. Now with a nifty little application called – Orbit you can easily traffic HTTP (port 80) traffic & other random Android application traffic through the Tor network. Follow the guide below to get your android device & applications running through the Tor network.

Note: This application needs root access for full functionality and is recommend.

1. Open Play Store/Google Play on your android device.
2. Search for: Orbot.
3. Select – Orbot: Proxy with Tor (from The Tor Project) & install it to your Android device.
4. Once installed – open Orbot.
5. Up the top of the application – click Settings
6. Make sure – Start Orbot on Boot is checked.
7. Scroll down to Transparent Proxying & make sure Transparent Proxying is enabled – then check Tor Everything to make sure all your application#8217;s network traffic is directed to the Tor network.
8. Now – scroll right to the bottom of the settings and make sure in the Debug area – Network Auto-Sleep is checked to reduce battery consumption.
9. Go back to the main Orbot home screen and press the large silver power button to start proxying your traffic through the Tor network.

Note: You can confirm the traffic is being proxyed by monitoring the Download & Upload traffic on the bottom half of the Orbot screen.

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It runs correctly if you put “-windowed” in the launch options!

1. Right click the Dishonored shortcut
2. Left click Properties
3. Click on the shortcut tab
4. In Target set: C:Program Files (x86)DishonoredBinariesWin32Dishonored.exe” –windowed
5. Click Ok

Note: Tested on Windows 8/8.1 & Windows 7.

If you just had this error and are GASPING like I was at 10PM at night – never fear there is still hope!

Note: Tested with the Drobo 5N.

1. Go to the Drobo Support website & download the correct latest firmware for your Drobo.
2. Take ALL the internal drives out of the Drobo (this is to make sure your Drobo applications – even Drobo Port applications & storage are not affected).
3. If you haven’t already got the Drobo Dashboard you can also download that from the Drobo Support website – Open the Drobo Dashboard.
4. Wait 5 minutes till it scans the network and locates your Drobo.
5. Once located click on your Drobo & select Tools within the Drobo dashboard.
6. Click Manual Update
7. Navigate to the location of the firmware update file and upgrade. This will require a restart.
8. Once the process has completed restart the Drobo & reinsert your drives.

1. Open regedit
2. Navigate to: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\RSS
3. In the: DWORD: Disable
4. Change the value from 1 to 0 to enable RSS functionality.