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514 Authentication required when using Tor

I have installed Vidalia and when I activate Tor and set the proxies in firefox I get the message '514 Authentication Required.'! I'm wondering what is the problem here?
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Empathy not connecting on school's public wifi

Empathy just sits trying to connect to my facebook and Google Talk accounts on my school's public wifi. On the public wifi there is a proxy I have to connect to and register with (just type in an ...
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Is there any chat clients that work behind authenticated proxy server?

I am behind an authenticated proxy server and I have set it up via System->Preferences->Network Proxy configuration and applied system-wide. But most of the chat clients (primarily to access gtalk) ...
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After attempting to use a VPN client (Astrill), I can no longer access the internet through my Ubuntu installation. The VPN was setup as piece of software, not something to be used through Ubuntu ...
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User 'proxy' displayed in login user selection [closed]

since one week, the user proxy is displayed in the login screen user selection list beside the normal users. The user "proxy" has the uid 13, so below 1000 and should not be displayed. From ...
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What happened to /etc/apt/apt.conf?

I was browsing through the apt folder to try my proxy settings and I was unable to find the apt.conf file in Ubuntu 11.04. Is there any alternative file for it? Adding proxy settings to 99-synaptic ...