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Great idea
Hmmm .....
You can just imagine it.... Management meeting, I'm invited in ... as I'm the IT Network Manager... someone suggest I show management the Proxy stats for employee surfing ...
Biggest hit - corporate intranet, thank god its everones default homepage ... second Horizonsunlimted - the worlds largest motorcycle travel forum ... errr arn't you planning a bike trip Matthew !!!!
Ok that aside, I keep my fingures on the ctrl and W key.....
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Matt,
i had to laugh... while reading your post, I'm sitting at work with simalar "tacticaly aware" state of readyness... So I tend to agree with you!
And Mathew.. nice tip about the ctrl w ..... 
On a more practical point a low graphics version would be great for those on the road stuck with slow/over priced internet. (which i thinik this has been brought up several times in the past?? )
I suspect this could be a bit of a problem from an advertising perspective??????(maybe Grant's comments here?) ...It's that money that helps this website and forum remain operational.
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use a text browser (lynx), if you can at work.
a low-res/face-less version is possible with an alternative css and some apache re-write rules for image links. ie any image link is re-written with a link to a blank image. you could make sponsors images exceptions.
Or (firefox) just turn off the style page (View/Page Style/No Style) and turn off images. Make a right mess of the site, but you can still get around. Reduce the text size too.
I guess IE has similar, but I don't use it.
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As DougieB says, the easy way is to install the developer bar on your browser and turn the images or style off.
Another way is to install something like Greasemonkey if you use Firefox - it transforms web pages however you program Greasemonkey to do so.
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You mean people look at this forum when they should be working ?
Whatever next.
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Splendid idea!!!
Surfing at work...  ?? LOL
That would be a great idea...something like a toggle button on te main page where you can switch bewtween the 'swish' hubb or the 'plain' hubb.
Also try to use 'Alt' and 'Tab' keys. Press Alt first and while holding it down, press Tab...
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It might also be an advantage to folks using internet cafe's with very slow download speeds,when out on the road for example.And as they charge by the hour for use anything that cuts even 10% off download time would be a bonus.Just a thought....
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Just found out what Ctrl-W does
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Originally Posted by goodwoodweirdo
Hmmm .....
You can just imagine it.... Management meeting, I'm invited in ... as I'm the IT Network Manager... someone suggest I show management the Proxy stats for employee surfing ...
Biggest hit - corporate intranet, thank god its everones default homepage ... second Horizonsunlimted - the worlds largest motorcycle travel forum ... errr arn't you planning a bike trip Matthew !!!!
Ok that aside, I keep my fingures on the ctrl and W key.....
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Ctrl-W wonder what that does?
Curses !!@@**
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