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BobA
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Re: Bannination!
« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2007, 05:19:31 AM »

Any chance on a wireless card for your laptop, sitting open on your desk?
Can someone explain to Stroh how the Internet works?


 Devil

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My school district has tightened the reigns considerably this year as well. No more checking personal email and a whole host of site categories have been filtered. Sucks for me but I never had much surf time except over my quick lunch break anyway. Oddly Golfhos is not blocked! I know a bunch of teachers are hacked that they can't check their eBAY accounts anymore.  Roll Eyes

Clive I'd bet your IT people could unfilter the discussion boards for you if they really wanted to.

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Re: Bannination!
« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2007, 05:28:03 AM »

Yep...aircard and a laptop is the answer.  It's not on their network so what can they say.
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« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2007, 05:52:59 AM »

stupid.  people who trust  blackbox implemented categorical blacklist type rules  are the same type who got the country into the problem its in.   complex problems don't have easy solutions.
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Re: Bannination!
« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2007, 07:30:48 AM »

That sucks.  I hope my work doesn't do that but I would not be surprised if they did.  Many people at my work don't have access to the internets at all other than an online phone and address directory.  My department has access and not too many sites are blocked.  Of course we can't do streaming video or get on myspace, youtube, ebay, netflix (can't understand this one).  During my breaks I get on the forums all the time.  I've never been reprimanded for it and don't see that happening.  Basically if you get your job done my boss doesn't care.  Companies should realize how much it hurts morale to ban the internets and promote responsible personal surfing.
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« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2007, 09:55:51 AM »

Here they have started to ban certain sites but nothing major. I have the potty mouth filter on for Golfhos just in case.
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« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2007, 10:24:47 AM »

I don't know about getting to other sites, but you might be able to try a workaround for golfhos.  If they haven't blocked www.google.com, then you can use their rss reader to read the posts here.


1) Go to http://www.google.com/reader/
(create a google account if you don't already have one)

2) Click "Add subscription" and add the url for the golfhos rss feed:
http://www.golfhos.com/feed.rss

(the posts won't be grouped in threads, and you won't be able to post, but it's a start, and I have some ideas to fix that if this works.)
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« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2007, 11:10:55 AM »

ssh tunnels  ftw!
(disclaimer, your employer will probably fire you for using them)
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« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2007, 11:15:38 AM »

ssh tunnels  ftw!
(disclaimer, your employer will probably fire you for using them)

I'd hazard a guess that a company which plonks an uber-nanny down on web access disallows outbound port 22 traffic and probably a whole lot more.  Especially since Clive and crew are a bunch of wiley lawyers.   Shocked
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Re: Bannination!
« Reply #23 on: March 23, 2007, 12:52:18 PM »

Any chance on a wireless card for your laptop, sitting open on your desk?
Can someone explain to Stroh how the Internet works?
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Sorry.  I meant wireless mobile (Cingular, T-Mobile, etc.....)  You pay for it, but they can't touch it.

Believe it or not, I did know that's what you're talking about. Shocked Wink
But I don't see that working either.  If he uses a laptop provided by the company he works for, they could require that he use only an internet connection that they provide.  If he were to use his own laptop and a wireless pc card, they could mandate that employees use only the the computers that they supply.  And considering that they went so far as to block so much of the net (even to the point that it could/will hinder the quality of their employees work), I can't see them even hesitating to make that decision.  Not to mention that there could be other consequences - stricter regulations, etc, or worse - for trying to get around the rules and etc that they have made and established.   Sad
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Re: Bannination!
« Reply #24 on: March 23, 2007, 01:02:14 PM »

I must be the only person in the world who uses the net at home!!! Shocked
No internet access at work for me!!!!

Clive you will just have to quit work, become a house-husband, and devote more time to  "Golfhos"!!!!!! Grin Grin Grin
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« Reply #25 on: March 23, 2007, 01:04:41 PM »

I must be the only person in the world who uses the net at home!!! Shocked

Nope, me too. Cheesy
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« Reply #26 on: March 23, 2007, 01:04:58 PM »

I must be the only person in the world who uses the net at home!!! Shocked
No internet access at work for me!!!!

If I didn't use teh internets from home, I wouldn't be here.  (Some of you might actually prefer that.... Wink )
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« Reply #27 on: March 23, 2007, 01:35:18 PM »

More ideas until they figure out the error of their ways:

1) I can fax you the posts from golfhos as they get posted.  Better stock up on paper.

2) If you want, I can write a CliveBot that will post on here periodically by generating random posts using some of your more frequent words, Madlib-style (assless chaps, intellectual property, Rule ##-##, etc...)  No one will even notice you're gone.

3) I can make a GolfHos daily podcast that you could download to your iPod every morning featuring the posts from the previous day.  I can read each thread into a microphone and reconstruct conversations posted here using the accents that I imagine for each member.

Off the top of my head, I'm picturing the following voice impressions:

Padraig Harrington => Uisce Beatha
Sean Connery => TFT
Russell Crowe => 2iron
Mike Myers => stroh
Olivia Newton John/Nicole Kidman => wishicouldhit
Ben Stiller => spaceage
Brangelina => Askelander
Dakota Fanning => Torpedo


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Re: Bannination!
« Reply #28 on: March 23, 2007, 01:38:43 PM »

rofl @ dystopia!  Hilarious! Rolling
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Re: Bannination!
« Reply #29 on: March 23, 2007, 01:38:57 PM »

 Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

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