BLOCKED!!!

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-03 10:10am

My place of work recently set up the internet so it now blocks "entertainment" and "game" related websites. SD.net is blocked as a entertainment site.

Sports related sites like ESPN are not blocked but any kind of online magazine site is blocked.

However, I am able to still get to the boards by going directly to them.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-04-03 10:16am

Fucking internet blockers.

We have blockers and proxies at my work.

The proxy for some strange reason don't log my requests...

Too bad for them that I am the sys admin

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-04-03 10:38am

Sports is not entertainment while SD.net is? You ought to go to your management and point out that sports is entertainment for some people while computer and message board type pages are entertainment for others. Either they block sports pages or they allow all entertainment pages.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-03 11:26am

Well, I ocassionally like to go to sports sites too but it has crossed my mind.

Sports sites are where most of the guys in my department screw off instead of working. The games sites and other entertainment sites impacted the women more than the guys. It really impacted the nurses in my hosptial since you could always find a bunch of them playing games.

I'm just glad that a search for SD.net on Google gave a link to the board that wasn't blocked. I'll just have to keep up with the rest of the site at home.

One thing they blocked that I think is a little more than an entertainment issue is Dilbert.com. Even though we are a hospital and not a engineering firm I think too much of that comic hit close to home for them.

What's really stupid is the hospital has cable tv. Our break room has access to a couple of cable sports channels for use "during breaks". Funny, but when big games are on the guys seem to spend a lot of time back there. I'm sure they'll address that problem sooner or later. The asshole part of me has been tempted to reprogram the tv with a universal remote to block a lot of channels but so far I've decided against being such a bastard.

Besides it would be a kind of "bitchy" thing to do.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-04-03 11:28am

But revenge is sweet..... oh, so sweet...

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-03 11:41am

verilon wrote:But revenge is sweet..... oh, so sweet...

That it is.

Right now my revenge is being able to do most of what I want despite their attempts to stop me. Mwahahahhahahahahah!!!

In the past I've used IE's content controls to block a lot of what our IS Department is currently blocking hosptial wide so it's not like I'm above being that petty. Currently I'm trying to be better than that but sometimes I can be weak...and a bastard.

The bastard bit is actually kind of fun. It gets those lamers off their asses and working so I don't have to do as much when I follow them. At least I hope it works that way.

I have a funny feeling they find something else to goof off too or they just go home early.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-04-03 11:44am

Let's not get into what "goofing off" might be... [shudders]

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-03 11:54am

verilon wrote:Let's not get into what "goofing off" might be... [shudders]

Aw c'mon, it's a hospital pharmacy how sick and demented could it be? The really twisted types work in the morgue

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-04-03 11:56am

Tsyroc, PLEASE GET THAT U-REMOTE!!!

If they bl0x0r SDnet, You cut their Sports Programming! No Mercy No Quarter! Block the Sports channels with that U-Remote and TAKE IT HOME AND LEAVE IT!

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-04-03 12:06pm

Tsyroc wrote:
verilon wrote:Let's not get into what "goofing off" might be... [shudders]
Aw c'mon, it's a hospital pharmacy how sick and demented could it be? The really twisted types work in the morgue

[will say nothing of necrophilia..]

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-03 12:08pm

If it gets real bad I'll have to reconsider blocking cable channelsl.

Usually I don't have to get that elaborate. One time the radio in the central pharmacy was off all day. It seems someone (me) had unplugged it from the back of the radio but left it plugged into the wall. The Sherlocks I work with couldn't figure out what was wrong with it and thought it was broken. I came in that night and they told me it was broken. I walked over and plugged it back in. I never expected that to last more than a minute, tops.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-04-03 01:17pm

Tsyroc wrote:
verilon wrote:Let's not get into what "goofing off" might be... [shudders]
Aw c'mon, it's a hospital pharmacy how sick and demented could it be? The really twisted types work in the morgue

*Attempts to clear mind*

*Attempt fails*

*Throws up*

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-04-03 01:37pm

So, your boss must be another one of them sports jocks.

There's a blocker at my school that keeps me from viewing sites like the Onion, but I can still come here.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-04-03 03:58pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:So, your boss must be another one of them sports jocks.

There's a blocker at my school that keeps me from viewing sites like the Onion, but I can still come here.

My schools administrators are too stupid to figure out how to block anything. I'm surprised one of them can even log himself in.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-04-03 04:36pm

My school administrators are too stupid to even block writing to the C:\ directory. Morons. Try a proxy server. List is at www.samair.ru/proxy. Only 10% of them seem to work though. Hope the trolls do not look at this to go around IP bans though.

PrinceofLowLight · Post by **PrinceofLowLight** » 2003-04-03 05:37pm

www.peacefire.org has a program that may disable it...erhm, this might be illegal so...*Pokes head back under rock*