READ THIS if you are blocked from this BBS at work!
 

You can use the anonymizer (http://www.anonymizer.com to surf anything through blocking firewalls (unless they have blocked anonymizer too).

Very cool...

-Wayne

Wayne, Isn't that the point...we should be working to be able to afford more parts from Pelican

doesn't matter if you are working or not, so long as you are still getting paid! max

Nice thing about being self- employed. I can do what I want when I'm at work.

Oh- One more thing- Neener Neener!

wayne...you forgot to add MUHAAHAAHAAHAA:D

If I am on the Pelican BB I am not generating revenue...I am spending it....

Bob? Bob is that you?

Guys, you'll have to excuse Bob, he's my Supervisor, you understand.

;)

Just in case I need to say this.... just kidding.

Fortunately they haven't blocked me from getting to PP yet, but they do block ebay (no great loss), anything having to do with weapons, anything having to do with games, anything with adult content (no big deal), etc... I guess I'm lucky though, some of the other locations around the country block much much more stuff.

My theory is tell people what they can't do, and tell them the consequences, then if you catch them doing it fire 'em. Of course on top of some very professional Networking people (who can quite easily circumvent things anyway) our building is also home to some low paid entry level types that are more likely to get into trouble (although I hear that it's often managerial types that get caught doing the most serious stuff).

Most, if not all, of the commercial nannyware vendors will have blocked the anonymising services.

FWIW, I've found that several of these packages block my site - http://vintagebus.com

What's scary about the nannyware stuff is not that they block sites like Pelican and whatnot, but they also selectively non-entertainment sites. Various political sites of one orientation will blocked, but bot those of the other persuasion. Their block lists are closely guarded "trade secrets." This gives them a tremendous power that people don't even realize. The new trend in social, political and economic control is to quietly filter what you don't want people to see. Microsoft is famous for mangling competitors products.
--Mulder

I guess I am lucky...I do most of the purchasing for service...and i need to surf to find parts and info.
Soooo...if they block me....things do not get fixed!
Bob

Quite a few of the guys I work with use their home pc's as proxies on non standard, non blocked ports making their own way around. It works great if you have good broadband.

I have an idea. I can set up an IP-only site that people can use to access the BBS when they cannot get it at work. I would make this site password protected, and you would only know the password if you go to the regular site regularly. Then, if a snooping administrator decides to block Pelican, then you can just log in using the IP address URL. If the administrator tries to look at the site, all he will see is a password protected screen.

???

-Wayne

I'm all for it! It wont be long before I have the same problem.

Okay, here is an alternative log in that should work for now:

http://66.236.61.177/

-Wayne

Sheesh Wayne...so you want the guys who work for you to be on a "hobby" website or posting board instead of taking parts orders????

Yeah, I think this will be a good move Wayne!

My employer isn't on the absolute edge of computer technology. However, they will buy it. The latest move is to subscribe to an outfit that does the screening of sites and rates them. If you get an art, leisure or chat designation,.......bing the novell network protector tells you that it's against organizational rules to view or visit the site. Thus J C Penny is blocked however Home Depot isn't. Go figure! I believe that its all in the eye of the beholder. This is especially true when we buy this technology from overseas. For instance, you can get an Afganstani programmer in Kabul to do this. Now figure out what he's going to think about the sites you visit.

Sound's neat now that I'm finally starting to get with the Porsche program. I'm only going to buy from sites I can get to.

Good luck,
David Duffield

Paul, do I work for you? ;)

I'm sorry...just an observation about this board over the years. FAR more names on the board during "working hours" than night, holidays, or weekends. I'm retired, before that, self employed, so my time has always been my own. Is it old fashioned to think that when you are being paid for your time, your time isn't your own???

ATTENTION Pelican Parts employees....... Wayne not only encourages and endorses spending your work time surfing web sites, he's telling you how to do it anonymously. What a company.

As a business owner Wayne, you should use better judgement.

A good network admin would have a keystroke logger on suspect machines and thus be able to get the password for the IP only site. I have a little proggy that logs all activity on a remote machine and sends me the info via email on a pre-determined interval, it'll even take screen shots at set intervals. I manage a small network at work and you can believe if I have a proggy like this the real pros have something better. This type of software runs totally undetected unless you're very familiar with the services that should be running on your comp. Logging can also be done via a router/firewall and would be impossible to detect with the local machine. The point here is that if your company is filtering your internet activity circumventing that filtering will most likely get you into trouble.

There's there first problem right there!