When I endeavour to add a reply containing images, I get this.........

You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board.

I just paste, no alterations or resizing.

HELP.

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Just experimenting pete, because that worked before I edited it. I will try something else now

I don't know the reason, I have just tried to replicate the problem, but can't see a reason, but why use paste, just hit reply, but I guess that ain't the problem?

This one serves to keep the kids away from the fire

Most of my pastes are OK.

This one was brilliant, but it was a gif video.

Copied from email.

It worked OK here, but not allowed when trying to add reply..... grrrrr

Ta for your help, Moss.

gif video doesn't go in the image paste. It has to be a .jpg. If you want to insert a gif you will have to save it to your desktop and then upload it.

Why does TV take anything up to five minutes to open, when all other web-sites I regularly visit take only a couple of seconds?

Why does it take over a minute to transfer between pages / post a reply?

Why are most video links unavailable?

Why are most pix just a little red cross-in-a-box?

TV is the only web-site with these problems - doesn't matter if it's my desk-top at home or my laptop at work.

I have no idea coz I never have that problem. I wonder if it has anything to do with Vietnam ISP scanning all outgoing traffic for censoring?

http://news.theage.com.au/technology/vietnam-steps-up-chinastyle-internet-censorship-20100701-zpg0.html

I have no idea coz I never have that problem. I wonder if it has anything to do with Vietnam ISP scanning all outgoing traffic for censoring?

http://news.theage.com.au/technology/vietnam-steps-up-chinastyle-internet-censorship-20100701-zpg0.html

It could be, but that's why I said that it doesn't happen on any other web-sites I visit.

Admittedly they are mostly technical or newspapers, but it is annoying. When I posted the message above I timed the period until it was reproduced on my computer - 2 min 13 secs. Then I had to click back to the main Bedlam menu (1 min 42 secs) before switching to another thread. This happens most of the time.

(edit) I am used to censorship. Since I started using the Internet and e-mails in the mid-nineties, in Saudi Arabia, I have spent almost all my life in Saudi 1995-2000, Libya 2000-2001, Vietnam 2001, Saudi 2005-2008 and Vietnam 2008 - present. The gap years were spent building Suvarnabhumi and working in Singapore.

But this is a recent problem, only about three months of it to date.

I have no idea coz I never have that problem. I wonder if it has anything to do with Vietnam ISP scanning all outgoing traffic for censoring?

http://news.theage.com.au/technology/vietnam-steps-up-chinastyle-internet-censorship-20100701-zpg0.html

Just read the article you posted.

I wonder if they'll comment on the proposed censorship in Australia? This is currently stated to be 'only considering kiddy porn', which of course will be praised by all, but it is still the thin end of a potentially very large wedge. Any censorship can lead to total censorship, with a creeping catalogue of 'anti-social' sites being taken down. When will the block extend to Pauline Hanson and One Nation? (as being detrimental to Australia's image). Maybe not for a long time, but the door has been unlocked.

In Saudi I was subject to double censorship - the government fed everything through the Islamic University in Riyadh, which blocked a large number of sites, then Saudi Aramco added their layer on top, which sometimes meant technical sites were blocked.

I believe Vietnam blocks Facebook - I am not interested and do not try this site. But the rest of the English-language world seems wide open, and most of my Vietnamese engineers say that there is no VN site that they cannot access. But then they are not interested in the bauxite mining or similar - we are building power stations that are not environmentally friendly. And there are a lot of pulp/paper mills that eat both electricity and timber (eucalypts and bamboo mainly) so the 'great leap forward' that is currently taking place here is far more important to 99% of the population than the environment. The millions of motor-bikes attest to that. There are electric-powered bikes around that don't pollute the streets, but few are bought. Everyone has a 125cc stinkwheel.

(In China there is a tax-saving and reduced power charge if you have an electric bike - plus high trade-in value for your petrol-powered bike) (I am talking about proper motor-bikes, not the small motor driving the rear tyre)

I have no idea coz I never have that problem. I wonder if it has anything to do with Vietnam ISP scanning all outgoing traffic for censoring?

http://news.theage.com.au/technology/vietnam-steps-up-chinastyle-internet-censorship-20100701-zpg0.html

It could be, but that's why I said that it doesn't happen on any other web-sites I visit.

Admittedly they are mostly technical or newspapers, but it is annoying. When I posted the message above I timed the period until it was reproduced on my computer - 2 min 13 secs. Then I had to click back to the main Bedlam menu (1 min 42 secs) before switching to another thread. This happens most of the time.

(edit) I am used to censorship. Since I started using the Internet and e-mails in the mid-nineties, in Saudi Arabia, I have spent almost all my life in Saudi 1995-2000, Libya 2000-2001, Vietnam 2001, Saudi 2005-2008 and Vietnam 2008 - present. The gap years were spent building Suvarnabhumi and working in Singapore.

But this is a recent problem, only about three months of it to date.

what happens when you ping the site?

I'm at my usual hotel in the Tay Ho district in Hanoi and hooked up to a wireless signal called 'dlink'....and I can access most things; there is a very beautiful girl on an unblocked porno website, all long legs, nice behind and small breasts that reminds me of a previous, significant lover and I would like to send a letter of appreciation to the VN ISP to thank them for allowing me to indulge again with the remembrance of things perdu...

what happens when you ping the site?

What do you mean by "Ping the Site"??

If you mean put the cursor over the address/ID, then nowt that is different. Just takes longer to log into than others. If you mean something else, please explain - I am not well-versed in all this new-fangled stuff like telephones and horseless carriages, let alone machines that fly through the air or produce amazing moving pictures.

lol HB. ping the site

hmmm

PM me with details of what operating system you use and I will guide you step by step in the fine art of pinging

Humph & sbk have gone off to enable special operational modes and check packet size used as the probe.

They maybe sometime......................

Humph & sbk have gone off to enable special operational modes and check packet size used as the probe.

They maybe sometime......................

I know where the on/off switch is, I know how to get onto the internet, but I couldn't begin to understand your post.

We may be an awful long time.

HB has pinged. not sure he understands what it means, but thats ok. Now we are going to try a tracert. PM instructions have been sent. We'll have him writing code in no time

In Saudi I was subject to double censorship - the government fed everything through the Islamic University in Riyadh, which blocked a large number of sites, then Saudi Aramco added their layer on top, which sometimes meant technical sites were blocked.

Although the traffic still goes through there, things are a doddle nowadays Humph

In Saudi I was subject to double censorship - the government fed everything through the Islamic University in Riyadh, which blocked a large number of sites, then Saudi Aramco added their layer on top, which sometimes meant technical sites were blocked.

Although the traffic still goes through there, things are a doddle nowadays Humph

They have to be. Whatever they think, gummints cannot censor the WWW comletely - there are always methods to circumvent firewalls, etc. The thing about that is - and I am concerned - the average Joe Public is not going to spend time and money trying to get round such restrictions. It is the fanatic, whether a kiddie-porn lover, a jihadist, an animal rights terrorist or a right-wing Hitlerite, who will do so.

As is fairly obvious from the preceding posts, I am not conversant with all the ways and means / whys and wherefores needed to even get a decent legitimate connection, but at my last posting in Saudi, with a Far Eastern partner in a joint venture, we had a system set up in our camp, wireless, etc., that went through no in-Kingdom process, thus no censorship. Direct out to a satellite, I think. There were a couple of hundred Saudis in the compound, long-term Aramco employees, who were not supposed to know about this. Within a couple of days of it starting all were on the net. The bandwidth had to be expanded pdq so that we could communicate with our partner's head office, six or seven time zones away. But not one complaint - the Saudis were down-loading Gawd knows what - 24/7.

So even in a country that has imposed controls from the inception of the Internet in the Kingdom, it is simple to get round such controls. But if the controls are lightly run, does the normal person need to object?

HB has pinged. not sure he understands what it means, but thats ok. Now we are going to try a tracert. PM instructions have been sent. We'll have him writing code in no time

Have some paracetamol handy

HB has pinged. not sure he understands what it means, but thats ok. Now we are going to try a tracert. PM instructions have been sent. We'll have him writing code in no time

Have some paracetamol handy

Tylenol Forte is the thing for me.

But I've just had my timesheet and invoice for October signed, so I'm up for anything!

Why when I copy and paste this graphic, I am told "That extension is not allowed".

When I attach it as a file, WITH SAME extension, it is OK?

Maxine spot-on, as usual..... LOL ........