Banned, banned and banned.

smemon

Just came to back today from our week off and was shocked to discover 3 sites i use/browse, all banned :mad: and re-directing to a nice custom blocked page integrated into the dkit website template, not the usual 'red alert' type page we got before.

digg, meebo and myspace - all banned.

what i can't understand is why bebo/facebook aren't banned if myspace is?

also, why is meebo banned? and digg - for the love of god, not digg, it's what keeps me from going brain dead during the 2 or 3 hours gaps we might have between classes :rolleyes:

ok, it doesn't take a genius to bypass all this, but that's not the point. If myspace, digg and meebo go down, why not take bebo and youtube, gmail etc down with them..

obviously the idea behind it is to increase productivity (that won't happen, it will just annoy people and they'll find a way around it, which will result in the internet police playing catch up to ban all the proxies and monitor things tightly), so if that is indeed the basis for banning these sites, why not ban the lot?

Atomic Pineapple

lecterurs had them unblock bebo because they felt it was wrong to stop students from socially networking and they unblocked youtube as aot of students were using it as a resource.

i never heard of digg or meebo

just after looking them up and digg seems like it probably isn't monitered?? could be wrong just had a glance.

meebo is a great idea though and i cant see the point in blocking it, it must be taking up too much bandwidth when its used??

The Bollox

well they can't block Gmail because it's the primary account for a lot of students

smemon

Well the reality is they can't block anything, but it's the gesture that's annoying.

I can understand the thinking behind it... but myspace is basically a bigger version of bebo. Virtually the same thing. Why ban one and not the other?

Inconsistency. If this was a premiership referee red carding a player for a foul and turning a blind eye to the exact same foul at a later stage, their head would be on the chopping board and they'd be dropped to a lower league.

Digg is not somewhere you go to chat to people and play games, it's a great news site aimed at the older/more mature age group, not a self promoting teen site.

im...LOST

Where are you trying to access these sites? Bebo and YouTube is only blocked in the library, AFAIK. In the computer labs there are no restrictions. Well, this is what I realised anyway.

It's strange that digg is blocked. Although it's a huge site on a worldwide scale, I didn't really think that it have a huge influence in Ireland, neverming the younger students.....

It's a load of bo!!ox tbh....

Atomic Pineapple

yeh i never heard of digg before.....

they blocked a few new sites today it seems i heard people giving out about that warez site being blocked

smemon

they were all banned in the computer labs by the way, never tried the library, assume it's the same :cool:

Ah well, i guess that's it. No-one will ever be able to access those sites ever again from DKIT.

Students will spend more time studying, get better results, and we'll all be looking back praising this life changing decision with PhD's under our belts. :cool:

annex

bebo should be banned.
I took a few Learning Centre classes last week and one of the students attending spent more time on damn bebo than he did on programming. He had to be told several times to shut it down.
P!$$ed me right off :mad:
But yeah I see your point, if you are going to ban one social networking site you should ban them all.

I suppose you could work on your book review thingy

Merrick

Damn, that's annoying. I don't use bebo/myspace much anymore, but I use meebo It's silly only banning myspace and not bebo too. I can see why they did it though, especially in the library.

BTW, was bebo unblocked because the lecturers asked it to be..? This just doesn't make sense!!

K.O.Kiki

IIRC, Bebo is actually bigger in Ireland than MySpace.

Hey, here's an idea: the admins are trying to figure out HOW you're circumventing their blocks

Merrick

Don't reckon so, they copped on to a good lot of our block-passers last year...
I actually think you're right too, as far as the college goes, I hardly ever see anyone on myspace there.

That_Guy

Next they'll be trying to block boards.

im...LOST

I accessed bebo in the computer labs a few weeks ago.....Not through a proxy or anything, just bebo.com and I was away....

That_Guy

You gotta be loving the computing labs.

Merrick

That_Guy wrote: »

Next they'll be trying to block boards.

Not if we're using it much (conspicuously) in class... hopefully!

RxQueen

well where i work everthing is banned. eve bcc new is banned!! the only thing that is banned it this, and this will be banned again the end of the month when they run of reports and see that i was using it PAH!

Merrick

Ha, same here, I can't use teh interweb for anything fun at all at work... Not even boards!

RxQueen

yeah like they xpect us to work!! wtf!:p

Merrick

Or to stare quietly out the window/at the wall in between our small periods of actual work! It's madness I tells ya!

RxQueen

Merrick wrote: »

Or to stare quietly out the window/at the wall in between our small periods of actual work! It's madness I tells ya!

i find staring out the window very upsetting, to the point that i start getting evnious at the people walk up and down. and then i start slagging them off !! altho it can be very funny if somebody trips over and hope nobody seen them. at that point i make sure they know i say them !haha!:D

Merrick

Well at least you can see a road, I only get a view of a church tower and trees :rolleyes:

RxQueen

yeah i do have a better view than you i guess!! today there putting up the chirstmas lights outside, with on of them cherry pickers(is that what there called!) and it keeps going beep beep beep .. its driving me mad!

Merrick

Christmas lights already..? Damn...
In town?

RxQueen

yeah dam chirstmas lights, but loads of shops around me have all there lights up, santas and tinstle and crap in there shop --our shop is not left put up anything!! the shop across the road was selling christmas cards at the start of september- waaaaay to early!

Merrick

Meh, I suppose tis only to be expected now. Sure Dunnes stared selling Christmas stuff before the Halloween stuff....

K.O.Kiki

In my work, nothing is banned.
BOOYAH!

RxQueen

Merrick wrote: »

Meh, I suppose tis only to be expected now. Sure Dunnes stared selling Christmas stuff before the Halloween stuff....

ha and the funny thing is people actually buy the stuff!! pah ..!

RxQueen

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

In my work, nothing is banned.
BOOYAH!

well isnt that great..... for you!! go back and do some work:p

Merrick

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

In my work, nothing is banned.
BOOYAH!

Well, good for you.....

RxQueen

Merrick wrote: »

Well, good for you.....

nah not good for him he just a boaster! pah!:p

Third_Echelon

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

In my work, nothing is banned.
BOOYAH!

me + 1

No Internet blocks back in my DKIT days... :cool:

I would have thought that if they were going to block any social networking sites that myspace might be the prime candidate as it generally has a lot more bandwidth intensive features such as streaming music and videos....

To be honest, the only thing in colleges that should be banned are warez and pr0n. Everything else I reckon is fair game.

In classes though if some eegit is surfing the net when they are supposed to be doing work, then the lecturer has every right to give him a smack across the head

Merrick

^^ Yeah, I never had anything blocked until things started getting mental with Bebo. So, then they blocked Bebo, and then the great majority of the proxy sites we found afterwards....

You're right about the lecturers vs the internet too, but it can go too far, I once got kicked out of a class just for having a non-javascript-related page open...
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In conclusion: blocks are silly and soon avoided, and even if Kiki is a boaster, he is still better off than us...

RxQueen

^^^^^^ yeah he is better off than us but what does he want a tap on the back or a well done! ha! i do have to agree with ye bebo was the start of all problems regarding banning of sites..

zAbbo

It's probably using pattern mathching to block sites, are they still using squid + dansguardian for proxy ?

Why not drop one of the admins a quick email instead of ranting here ?

Atomic Pineapple

yeh there still using squid

Merrick

&*($%!!!!!!!!!!
They have blocked ign.com!!!!

*throws tantrum*

I need to do research on that site...

Atomic Pineapple

Merrick wrote: »

&*($%!!!!!!!!!!
They have blocked ign.com!!!!

*throws tantrum*

I need to do research on that site...

did you send a message to the admin requesting access to the site??

you can always use babelfish to translate it from chinese to english and the translated page shouldn't be blocked

K.O.Kiki

Guys, your admins are power-trippin'.
Get on that right away.

im...LOST

I can't get online with my Mac. I dunno what's up. I get the DKIT wireless login thingie and then I get a time out message after a while of trying to load a web page. The wierd thing is that I can get online when I'm using Windows on the Mac so I don't think it's my Airport Card. Anyone else here who has a Mac and have similar problems?

Atomic Pineapple

one of the lads in my class uses his mac to access the wireless, wouldnt be sure what OS he uses though, i'll ask him monday if you dont get an answer before then

Merrick

im...LOST wrote: »

I can't get online with my Mac.

There's your problem, it's a Mac!

I know someone who has a Mac that works fine, I'm pretty sure he uses the MacOS. I'll ask him if he had any problems too.

im...LOST

Cool draffodx and Merrick. I'd really appreciate if you could let me know if theirs work fine. Thanks

That_Guy

Merrick wrote: »

There's your problem, it's a Mac!

I often give him stick over that. Stupid one button mouse.

Atomic Pineapple

im...LOST wrote: »

Cool draffodx and Merrick. I'd really appreciate if you could let me know if theirs work fine. Thanks

sorry I didnt get back to you earlier, yeh he use's the mac os and has no problem accessing the wireless

im...LOST

Yeah it works now for some reason. Gah, t'is strange but I'm happy enough now.

im...LOST

Gah t'is ok. It seems to be working now but I'm unsure why it wasn't working that day...

That_Guy wrote: »

I often give him stick over that. Stupid one button mouse.

Damn you and you inability to hold Ctrl and click to get right click!

Atomic Pineapple

some days the wireless network just doesn't work anyway

That_Guy

im...LOST wrote: »

Gah t'is ok. It seems to be working now but I'm unsure why it wasn't working that day...



Damn you and you inability to hold Ctrl and click to get right click!

But it's just so stupid. Why have a one button mouse when you can have two. Left click, right click... You can't be expected to click Ctrl and click in this fast moving world. Do you know how time consuming it is?

europerson

Why have two buttons when you could have three? Three when you could have four? This reminds me of the multiple-blade razor argument. By 2020, we'll probably have 16-blade razors.

That_Guy

I can imagine that now.

The new Gilette Mach "Cut your face up so bad" razor. Now with 16 blades.
8 blades stuck so close together so not only can you remove the hair from your face but you can also remove the skin from your entire body with just one stroke.
And don't forget our 8 precision blades so you can trim that unwanted hair away from your eyebrows.

Oh and remember we're changing our name to Killette....

The best a man or extremely hairy gorilla can get.

im...LOST

You know, if I hooked up a mouse to the Mac I could have a left click and a right click!

Gah, lets stop talking about clicks and stuff. We might actually get caught being nerds :eek: