[Nottingham] LaTeX, Proxy Settings, University of Nottingham

[Rory Holland]

On Windows XP, the settings in Internet Explorer are the global proxy
settings (I think!)
Is there not an option in your program to use system proxy settings?
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/is/uon/sns/settings.php

2009/12/8 Cat Clarkson <envengcat at googlemail.com>

> I'm wired in.
>
> Using XP - Not really sure how to approach IT to ask if I can use linux at
> work!
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Rory Holland <
> modestforagenius at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm at Notts uni. Are you connecting over a wired or wireless
>> connection? What distro are you using?
>> James
>>
>> 2009/12/8 Cat Clarkson <envengcat at googlemail.com>
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> Not strictly linux related, but I'm at notts uni using LaTeX to write my
>>> thesis and really struggling with downloading packages (having to google for
>>> them etc and messing around like that.)
>>>
>>> Does anyone by any chance know the proxy settings which I should use in
>>> texmaker when it offers to download pacakges for me?
>>>
>>> Any advice would be really appreciated..
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Cat
>>>
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>> Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
>> answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion
>> of ideas that could provoke such a question."
>> -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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-- 
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr.
Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers
come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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