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[RobC]

Not Suitable For Work (unless you want the sack)

 

[TheToadMen]

Ah ... well, that would/should/could apply for the whole of APUG (etc.) since it is not work related ...

But definitions will surely vary in time and places.
Like "safe sex" in the fifties meant not doing it in a car while driving!

 

[RobC]

Ah ... well, that would/should/could apply for the whole of APUG (etc.) since it is not work related ...

Yup, you're right. I don't know why companies give their staff external web access. Some of the companies I used to work for didn't. Especially banks. They had a little room with only a couple of workstations that people could go and use if necessary and could see who was spending time in there.

 

[MattKing]

Yup, you're right. I don't know why companies give their staff external web access.

A lot of organizations expect their staff to use internet resources to do a lot of work. And in many cases, they don't have on-site computer and technical support, so they don't have the flexibility that would permit limiting internet access to certain sites only.

I still have hundreds of legal and governmental and administrative (migrated) bookmarks on my computer from when I practiced law, and I left that seven years ago. I and my staff needed the ability to access those resources and locate new ones in order to do what we needed to do.

After all, with some minor exceptions we don't even have telephone directories around here any more - it is all on the internet.

 

[RobC]

I wonder if when dpug is converted to new setup it would be possible to direct posts with certain keywords in them to a dpug bucket forum, or maybe an APUG "Naughty Step" forum.

I'm sure it would be easy to redact certain keywords in posts but that kind of makes them doubly obvious.

 

[RobC]

A lot of organizations expect their staff to use internet resources to do a lot of work. And in many cases, they don't have on-site computer and technical support, so they don't have the flexibility that would permit limiting internet access to certain sites only.

I still have hundreds of legal and governmental and administrative (migrated) bookmarks on my computer from when I practiced law, and I left that seven years ago. I and my staff needed the ability to access those resources and locate new ones in order to do what we needed to do.

After all, with some minor exceptions we don't even have telephone directories around here any more - it is all on the internet.

It wasn't very long ago that you couldn't do that and I suspect it wastes a lot of time sifting through websites and being uncertain whether what you're looking at can be trusted even it claims to be a trusted source.

And the fact there's so much telephone marketing now means no one wants to be in a directory so it becomes extremely difficult if not impossible to find someones telephone number when you need it for genuine purposes that aren't about sales or marketing. That's computers for you. They don't actually make things easier most the time and are the biggest time wasting devices ever conceived.

 

[removed account4]

hi sean

i found ( finally ) where all my subscribed threads were hanging out
and when i wanted to stop watching one of them, i clicked the box and said, stop watching,
and it got rid of all of my subscribed threads !
i'm not sure if it is a bug, or if i am just a goofball who can't figure things out
but i figured i would mention this, in case others have the same problem.

 

[MattKing]

It wasn't very long ago that you couldn't do that and I suspect it wastes a lot of time sifting through websites and being uncertain whether what you're looking at can be trusted even it claims to be a trusted source.

Actually, our legal system is moving to where the court forms are online and user fillable.

Most of the legal research materials - both free and subscriber based - are online.

With respect to office administration, time records and case file notes are encripted and transmitted over the internet.

Email is everywhere.

Social media research of opposing parties is a normal step in litigation.

Office supplies are ordered over the internet.

Legal and Court and government phone directories are internet based.

It goes on and on and on.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Social media research of opposing parties is a normal step in litigation.

So by my avoiding social media. Keeping my name off the internet except for my resume (before I retired), I will limit an opposing party using me against myself in litigation? Gee. I must be smarter than I look!

 

[RobC]

Actually, our legal system is moving to where the court forms are online and user fillable.

Most of the legal research materials - both free and subscriber based - are online.

With respect to office administration, time records and case file notes are encripted and transmitted over the internet.

Email is everywhere.

Social media research of opposing parties is a normal step in litigation.

Office supplies are ordered over the internet.

Legal and Court and government phone directories are internet based.

It goes on and on and on.

I think we're due a few nuclear bombs to wipe all the hard drives. Can you imagine all the monkeys running round without a clue how to do anything because their computer isn't working. Even when you visit the doctor they sit there looking to be told what to do by their laptop. Society and communication has (not is) become faceless.

I tried to get an entry into the Urban Dictionary a while back. They rejected it. I wonder why.
IT is my own personal acronym for PCs, Laptops, Mobiles, Desktops and any other connected device. It is... ta da....

ACU

Automaton Control Unit

spread the word...

Years ago I was contracting for one large insurance company and all the permie staff were issued with a filofax. It was so much fun hiding peoples filofax if they left it unattended for a moment. When they couldn't find it they would go into a blind panic because they couldn't function without it. Great sport at the time, especially doing it to my boss who had meetings all day every day and didn't know where he should be at any time without it.

 

[RobC]

It would be nice if there was a way to use a double ignore forum for certain forums so that even if you hit the "show ignored content" link a double ignore forum wouldn't show its posts. I'm thinking specifically about the classifieds forum which I personally find very annoying since I almost never want to look at it. But I suspect this might be asking a bit much.

 

[TheToadMen]

So by my avoiding social media. Keeping my name off the internet except for my resume (before I retired), I will limit an opposing party using me against myself in litigation? Gee. I must be smarter than I look!

Until you get sued for just doing that ...

 

[Sean]

hi sean

i found ( finally ) where all my subscribed threads were hanging out
and when i wanted to stop watching one of them, i clicked the box and said, stop watching,
and it got rid of all of my subscribed threads !
i'm not sure if it is a bug, or if i am just a goofball who can't figure things out
but i figured i would mention this, in case others have the same problem.

Was this in your user control panel? All I can think is there is a master switch in there to unsubscribe everything. I'll have a look..

 

[removed account4]

hi sean,
it was in my control panel, i went to subscribed threads
and there is a text link that says basically " click here to see your subscribed stuff "
and then the list popped up, and check boxes and action dialog boxes ...

- john

 

[Sean]

which of the links did you click?





I think I can grab an old list of your subscribed threads off the dev server and email them to you

 

[removed account4]

it was the top one
manage subscribed threads >> stop watching thread

the thread had a box i clicked ( and it "x"/d before un-watched it ...

 

[Sean]

it was the top one
manage subscribed threads >> stop watching thread

the thread had a box i clicked ( and it "x"/d before un-watched it ...

I just put a warning message there so it will not catch someone else out.

 

[RobC]

SUP and SUB bbcode is not functioning and not available in editor menu. There are posts that were/are using them which now show 123 around what should be a superscript.

AND

TABLE bbcode isn't implemented. Don't remeber if it was on old system but it is often useful for formatting some post content in columns.

Just like to bump this becasue I wanted to refer to one of my older post which used BBCode table but is not much use looking like it does currently...
See (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

 

[Sean]

Just like to bump this becasue I wanted to refer to one of my older post which used BBCode table but is not much use looking like it does currently...
See (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

The system does have a "BB Code Manager" and there is an 'import bb code' option. I am assuming I should be able to find many bb codes that I can import. I am asking the forum support guys if there is a pack of them somewhere.

 

[RobC]

OK thanks,

I'm surprised you need to import them, I would have thought they were all options in the base install and just need to be switched on or off but hey ho.

 

[RobC]

aren't you able to setup your own custom bb codes from the admin menu without importing 3rd party ones?

 

[Sirius Glass]

The server is really slow today at 09:00 Pacific Standard time.

 

[Sean]

The server is really slow today at 09:00 Pacific Standard time.

likely a backup taking place. If it's slow for more than 5-10mins let me know.

 

[Sean]

aren't you able to setup your own custom bb codes from the admin menu without importing 3rd party ones?

There is a page of inputs to configure for each new bb code, and I've not learned how to do it yet. It involves a bit of code too etc so having a look into it.

 

[RobC]

There is a page of inputs to configure for each new bb code, and I've not learned how to do it yet. It involves a bit of code too etc so having a look into it.

I had a look at the demo site and I thought you only need the php callback if your custom bb code is doing something special. I also thought that for basic replacement of bbcode with html tag you wouldn't need any php code and only the required css for the html tag. But I had problem with demo displaying my test post so I couldn't see if was working properly. The mouseover title seemed to show it was but i din't mess with css to get it to put some padding inside TD cells so it was nicely spaced.