tasteless????
I just had a few days off work.

This morning as soon as my supervisor was out of the room I logged onto b3ta.

Well in fact I didn't.

In my absence, some no-good goody two shoes has installed filters on our servers, and b3ta is no longer allowed because it's "Tasteless".

Tasteless. of course is f*ckin tasteless- its a website, you'd be amazed if you logged on and you could taste strawberries, or dog poo.

Semantics aside- I could still log onto "facebook", "daily sport" or even the "daily Mail" {shudders}. Which in my opinion are waaaay more tasteless than clever, witty, and inspiring b3ta.

Good bye workplace chat chums I shall miss you between the hours of 8- 5.

{gently sobs}
(bugboybeast, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 17:43, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I have the same problem
Now I have a browser on my phone.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 17:50, Reply)

www.sickrik.com ;)

Part of my job is doing the blocking part of this equation (and we're a hell of a lot more strict, Facebook ffs?!), so if furnished with more details on the technology used I can surely help you figure out other methods.

Giving Hob Nobs to the IT department once a week will help you no end.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 18:11, Reply)

@ son 0f
I will try this tomorrow but if I click on the sikrik site does it by pass the tasteless filter. If so, how.


thank you thank you thank you thank you........

and how does our server "know" that b3ta is tastless, is there a black-list of certain sites?
(bugboybeast, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 18:36, Reply)

B3ta is blocked on Dell's servers
for "Race Hate"
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 18:40, Reply)

Same thing here
Friday last week - full access to b3ta at any time.

Monday - fuck all, not even at lunch time or outside core hours.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Jan 2009, 18:42, Reply)

Well...
There was an awful lot of swearing last week, if you typically hang around Off Topic...
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 18:43, Reply)

There was
Our filters seem to be a bit sporadic to be honest. I'm not supposed to be able to access bank sites and the like of Yahoo mail outside core hours. Yesterday and today, not a problem.

But no b3ta.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Jan 2009, 19:01, Reply)

Most web filters work off blacklists yeah
You pay a subscription to the company, like with anti-virus software, and they update the blacklist regularly. You can of course add sites or remove them yourself to fine tune it.

So the proxy would work in this case, unless it's on the blacklist itself...

If it's one that works by keywords (although I believe these are increasingly rare these days, since more and more content that people want to block is Flash videos, rich content etc rather than just HTML) you will of course be out of luck.

Go and see your IT department for a chat if there's a nerd there you get on with, I'm sure you can come to some sort of arrangement. You can bet their internet won't be filtered. (I quite enjoy unlimited surfing of whatever I want, whilst a screen next to me monitors the admin girls' attempts to log onto Facebook when they should be working. I like the feeling of power)

When the message comes up saying the site is blocked, does it display anything that would help identify the technology/software doing the blocking?

And are you running as an adminstrator in Windows (able to get into Control Panel, make changes etc) or is it tightly locked down?

There will be a way past it somehow!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 19:11, Reply)

hidemyass.com
often works
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 23:07, Reply)

Kcuf't
that is. feel your pain. has been scarce this week meself due to level of werk busy-ness that unprecedented be. *ouch* hopefully it settles down tomorrow, so that I can check in with all my fellow pervy bottom-dwellers!
( cackers, Wed 21 Jan 2009, 2:38, Reply)