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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stealth on February 07, 2003, 12:04:14 pm

Title: avatar problems
Post by: Stealth on February 07, 2003, 12:04:14 pm: here at the school computers (where i'm on) they've got "www.3dap.com/" URLs banned, but i can access dynamic4 sites...

now all avatars don't work, because the images are all to "3dap.com/hlp/hosted/images/" or something like that.
the only avatars that i SEE (that aren't broken red 'x' images) are the Full Circle avatars. why is this? The Full Circle avatars are on the dynamic4, i know that, which is why they show, but i thought since like a looonnnggg time ago ALL avatars were images on the dynamic4

:confused:
Title: avatar problems
Post by: TheVirtu on February 07, 2003, 12:20:37 pm: Haha, I've noticed that too a few years ago. Our school system uses some **** blocking program called Bess or something and it seems to call everything p0rn and games...no matter what it is :)
Title: Re: avatar problems
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 07, 2003, 01:37:09 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stealth
here at the school computers (where i'm on) they've got "www.3dap.com/" URLs banned, but i can access dynamic4 sites...

Same at my hell hole of a school.

However, I am currently at home, and my avatars have gone.

Also, every thread on the whole board has new posts, even if they were years ago.
Title: avatar problems
Post by: Corsair on February 07, 2003, 05:32:04 pm: I can get on just about anywhere from school. Including 3dap. :ha:
Title: avatar problems
Post by: an0n on February 07, 2003, 05:37:09 pm: I can get anywhere from my college computers. I'm not supposed to be able to, but I can :drevil:. Well, there are one or two exceptions but still, for the most-part I can view whatever I please.
Title: avatar problems
Post by: Knight Templar on February 07, 2003, 05:40:12 pm: scroll over the avatars. you'll see that all of the avatars othr than datDB and Full Cicle are based off the websites on sdap, IIRC.

EDIT: upon further inspection, you answered your own question..

That is why.

And school computers are ****.

Petrarch: go to the bottom of the main forums and hit "mark all forums read"
Title: avatar problems
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 08, 2003, 01:23:20 pm: Make me.
Title: avatar problems
Post by: Knight Templar on February 08, 2003, 02:02:32 pm: be who you wanna be..
Title: avatar problems
Post by: Stealth on February 08, 2003, 02:03:49 pm: Petrach, don't mess with Knight_Templar... he's got a higher post-count than you!!! :rolleyes:

:D
Title: avatar problems
Post by: Stealth on February 08, 2003, 02:05:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
I can get anywhere from my college computers. I'm not supposed to be able to, but I can :drevil:.

yeah i'm sure you can.

there's ways around every block they've got... for instance, they ban www.hotmail.com, but if you go to www.msn.com and click "Hotmail", you can log in :D
Title: avatar problems
Post by: an0n on February 08, 2003, 02:10:35 pm: Actually, me and Proxy (don't ask) found some ways around the firewall, but then we came up against the little problem that there is ALWAYS one of the IT teachers monitoring site-accesses and banning anything that looks suspicious. So if they saw someone was accessing gaypron.com, banned it then saw someone on it 30 seconds later, they'd know we'd been ****ing with it.
Title: avatar problems
Post by: Stealth on February 08, 2003, 02:13:13 pm: yeah, well the school's new system as of Thursday (when some nerd kid found out how to use netsend and sent stuff all over the school district's computers) we have a new thing... there's someone 24/7 monitoring the sites being viewed... like, i went to www.ebay.com and 10 minutes later it was blocked, same with www.3dap.com/hlp, 10 minutse later it's blocked... so it's pretty strict now, like, they block the word "hotmail" or "ebay" in the URL too i think, so there's no way round it.

it's getting pretty strict, next they'll block the data packets Tribes sends when you play over the networkd :D
Title: avatar problems
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 09, 2003, 02:45:55 pm: It's getting like that here, too. They have blocked downloading of any kind. But, astonishingly have unblocked rathergood, b3ta, and weebls-stuff.

A while back they wiped my user-drive wossname, which meant I lost ALL MY WORK! Just because I had downloaded winzip... and povray, and truespace, and FS2view, and Half Life demo, and doom, and AoE
Title: avatar problems
Post by: kode on February 09, 2003, 04:05:21 pm: only thing banned by my school (well not really, banned by the county), is www.lunarstorm.se , a big community with a large userbase of 14-year-olds.

how to get around the block? input ip adress instead of url...