7th Birthday Feature & CONTEST

[Robert]

Ok, why is there no question about Black Saturday

The contest is incomplete.

Besides that I wonder why these questions aren't in (mostly because I'm involved)

- the black saturday question: who was involved?
- who was the first apolyton poster to hack into the system and grand himself the 'moderator' title under his name 8)
- who was the first apolyton poster to aquire civ2:tot and write a fan-review of it for poly?
- who was the president of the civIII realistic club? 8)
- who's the best civer at poly? (yeah, that would be me again )

I demand that these questions should be incorporated into the quis as well

[Robert]

Just submitted all answers.
It was quiet easy 8)
I expect to win

[Robert]

really cool contest btw
well done!

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by MarkG
i just logged in with LYNX and everything works ok......

Well, logged in with lynx. Same result and I accepted every cookie that I was asked for to accept. Well posting this with lynx is not not so easy but possible.

Originally posted by MarkG
you're not behind a proxy are you?

Difficuilt question. I don't know whether my university is behind a proxy. But in order to use one of the windows computers there from home remotely I have to log into the network of my university. Possibly that looks then I would like use an proxy. However in my opinion it is like I would sitting physically in front of the computer I use remotely.

Oh and here are my cookies I have in my Mozilla at home:
bblastvisit
sessionhash
popcount
bbstyleid

As far as I know sessionhash should identify me.

-Martin

[MarkG]

the page looks for bbuserid which is set when you login (unless you dont allow it somehow)

[Theben]

I think I could answer most of them.

Although #7 was a coordinated effort.

[Unspeakable Horror]

I could only answer 16

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by MarkG
the page looks for bbuserid which is set when you login (unless you dont allow it somehow)

Yes, it is set, when you log in, provided you set the following option in your profile to yes:

Automatically login when you return to the site? (uses cookies)

This option is set to No in my profile usually, because methinks it is very unpleasent to see laying around my username and password on a computer that I don't own. In the case of my university I own at least the account I use. By the wy I am sitting in front of such a computer. However there might be the case that one don't own even the account of the computer that is uses e.g. internet cafes. And I remember that we had reports of such cases in the forum here that someone returned to the forum and was logged in as someone else.

[EDIT]Question removed, I figured out the answer on my own.[/EDIT]

Now I see that the problem does lie at the side. There are three possibilities to fix the problem:

Use sessionhash instead of bbuserid.
Or, well the more unpleasent way to fix it to me, update the manual accordingly. (You have to be registered and looged in and you have use the option ... )
And the third possibility ... well a PM about that would be more appropiate.

-Martin

[MarkG]

it is very unpleasent to see laying around my username and password on a computer that I don't own.

you can clear cookies prior to leaving the pc. it's what i always do when i have to use a public computer....

[Ambulance Chase]

First post for long time lurker ... thought I would have a crack to see if I could score some plus action. Did it straight without "research" - Some problems with the civ 2 questiions apart from that ok. Looking forward to the results. Might post again this time next year if I did ok

AC

[Jonny]

Pretty neat contest and a cool idea.

Answers submitted.

[DarkCloud]

Ambulance Chase- if you win, then you'd certainly receive the "Lurker Award for Stalking Throughness..."

[Robert]

BTW:

We're giving away close to 250$ in PLUS subscriptions, courtesy a generous donation by a fellower Apolytoner

All hail the "generous fellower apolytoner" who donated this

Of course we must find out who it is, so we can give him (her???) the deserved praise and recognition!

[Zoid]

IIRC JohnT is the generous fellow apolytoner

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by MarkG

it is very unpleasent to see laying around my username and password on a computer that I don't own.

you can clear cookies prior to leaving the pc. it's what i always do when i have to use a public computer....

Of course you can clear cookies, but I don't do it usually. And as I know how the brain works in this respect, I know that it is very likely that I forget it in the case of doubt.

However you can do some very bad things with cookies.

So you got PM, Markos.

-Martin