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Forums not opening using Firefox browser
Hi All,
Has anyone else run into the problem that started for me last night ? I have been using Firefox as my primary browser for the last year +, with little problem on this site and most others. Yesterday evening I tried to log onto the NI discussion forums and got a message that the forums were down for maintenance. Never thought to try IE until this morning when "Ben" said he could get on ok. The main NI site comes up fine, and I can navigate to all the other points in it fine (at least the few that I tried), but no discussion forum! :-[
P.M.
What version are you using (Firefox), I'm using 1.5.0.1
And still getting the message. Weird.
P.M.
Well I'm able to use Firefox again on this machine. I went to another machine here and it worked fine, so it wasn't some weirdness with our firewall. I messed with the cache and cookies and it works again. Don't know what changed yesterday afternoon. Maybe they were doing maintenance and Firefox kept trying to use the cached page. Love computers ....
P.M.
P.M.
I think the machine that serves the Exchange was re-booted yesterday afternoon.
About the same time I noticed the new copyright blurb at the bottom of the screen.
You apparently did not agree with the use agreement. 
Ben
Yes, it does provide a bit of a negative incentive to post code, etc. Not that anyone should post some really neat algorithm that they wanted to keep the IP of, it is public, but it is worded giving them all control. Oh well, happens when a company started by engineers/scientist brings in lawyers. Sort of like when they started letting just anyone use the Darpanet, oops, internet!
P.M.
P.M.
Speaking of which :
"Harvesting or otherwise collecting information about others, including e-mail addresses.".
Does this mark the end of the E-List?
I personally don't like this clause basically disowning me from my contributions here.
Come on NI, When we suggested the top contributors should slow down, we didn't expect legal incentives to do so.
It might seem like making a mountain out of a molehill, but I don't like the way NI is going about this. We donate precious time of our own to help NI (And ourselves, granted) with this forum.
So what's the legal status of all my posts before this terms of use came into force??
Shane.
"Harvesting or otherwise collecting information about others, including e-mail addresses.".
Does this mark the end of the E-List?
I personally don't like this clause basically disowning me from my contributions here.
Come on NI, When we suggested the top contributors should slow down, we didn't expect legal incentives to do so.
It might seem like making a mountain out of a molehill, but I don't like the way NI is going about this. We donate precious time of our own to help NI (And ourselves, granted) with this forum.
So what's the legal status of all my posts before this terms of use came into force??
Shane.
@shoneill wrote:
I personally don't like this clause basically disowning me from my contributions here.
Actually I don't think this clause is valid anyway. At least not here in Germany. AFAIK in Germany the copyright always is the author's (or his company's) and you can't change that. You can give someone the right to use some work, but I doubt that such a general TOS (I even do not sign!) accords to German (European?) law...
