SITE CONVERSION THIS WEEKEND!!!

[Combat Wombat]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

(including the URL being changed to ShrapnelGames instead of ShrapnelCommunity).

I hadn't even noticed that till you said something :O

[Azselendor]

kwok, google up a proxy browser and show that corporate filter who's boss

[Captain Kwok]

I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Anyone have a favourite they'd recommend?

[Mindi]

AngleWyrm, talking about the one in the URL? Yeah, I need to create a new one, it's vb default (obviously). I'll make sure that's on my list.

[Mindi]

Oh and Captain Kwok, Richard's workplace has also blocked a bunch of stuff......anything with the name game in it.....sites such as youtube.....even sites such as jibjab, etc. Definitely makes it harder for him to do anything for the site from work, even on his lunch hour/breaks.

[Fyron]

Originally Posted by Mindi

Oh and Captain Kwok, Richard's workplace has also blocked a bunch of stuff......anything with the name game in it.....sites such as youtube.....even sites such as jibjab, etc. Definitely makes it harder for him to do anything for the site from work, even on his lunch hour/breaks.

One solution would be to set the shrapnelcommunity.com domain up as a virtual host mapped to the same file system location as shrapnelgames.com, rather than a redirection. By doing this, the server will then actually serve the pages from both domains, and people behind vicious firewalls can browse away. Granted, I'm not sure if vbulletin uses relative urls everywhere, or if it uses a domain variable to prefix them, so this may or may not work properly.

[Captain Kwok]

I've been using a proxy to drop by during the workday. It works ok, but does mean a few extra steps overall. :P

[Richard]

Originally Posted by Fyron

One solution would be to set the shrapnelcommunity.com domain up as a virtual host mapped to the same file system location as shrapnelgames.com, rather than a redirection. By doing this, the server will then actually serve the pages from both domains, and people behind vicious firewalls can browse away. Granted, I'm not sure if vbulletin uses relative urls everywhere, or if it uses a domain variable to prefix them, so this may or may not work properly.

shrapnelcommunity.com will go away eventually so that's not an option.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Um...Isn't Richards' job at Shrapnel?

Or am I missing something here?

[Mindi]

No.....Richard has a full time job as a Supervisor at a fortune 20 company. This is and has always been his second/side job. When he started out here he was doing the contractor hop, lol.....you know where you take a contract for 6 months to a couple of years and then go elsewhere. That was very lucrative during the 90's and early 2000's and gave him lots of flexibility(read: no one cared what you did from work as long as you got your work done)..but once the market seemed to be busting in that area we had him take a permanent job instead of being a contractor.

His hours at his job as he's went up the ladder have increased, especially after he got into the management track....it's one of the reasons we made the decision to step down from our official positions with Shrapnel. In an average week he's working 50 hours a week plus he has an hour commute both ways because we live in nowhere land...i.e. no IT jobs in the town of Lancaster, Ohio. We expect he will probably be a Manager in the next year or so at which time his free time will probably go further downhill. Eventually we want to sell our house and move closer to his work so we can cut down that 2 hours per day community time, but between his full time job and the restrictions at his job he/we really don't have the ability to work on Shrapnel the way we once did, much less work on anything else that we have interests in and have quality time together.