I found that sticking VNC Server on my home PC, taking the IP in to school with me and connecting from the VNC client in school not only allows you to access anything but it also goes ten times faster
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I actually think my school upgraded their gateway software over the holidays, anytime I try to log in to any phpBB forums I get HTTP 400 (bad request)
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Btw, with the above shutdown script most NT-Kernel based systems will use NTFS and have All Users & Other user home-directories set to non-world-writable for obvious security reasons.