Family Man: Its possible to the music board, your profile and your notebook..not only music videos

It is true that  embedding code is available on sites other than YouTube.  Is YouTube's the only code allowed here, or is it wide open for any video to be uploaded?

TexasToest: Fencer told us Global Moderators when he was implementing this, that the HTML validator only allows tags linking to YouTube. Unless this has changed since he told us about it.

i really like the vid option - but i heard it said once that - no good deed goes unpunished - so i guess trying to improve the sight is backfiring huh?

Fencer's blog entry today addresses this discussion.

Eriisa: and its a good point he makes in that blog - the global moderators and individual board mods do a great job keeping this site family friendly - thank you all!!

Fencer, when do you think you will set some more Team Tournaments ?

MadMonkey: Oh yes. Sure. Soon. When the time comes.

Fencer: thanks goody gumdrops

Four times in the past few days my browser (firefox) has been hijacked by something claiming to be called Win Anti Virus Pro trying to make me download something. It is always when I've been making a move in backgammon. Is this happening to anyone else?

TheJazzCafe: Yup, your not alone...the Drive Cleaner hit me twice as I was logging onto BK just now...this is the third time for me in about five days Only happening here tho - anyone know how to make it go away for good?

srnity: If you use norton or other anti virus software then you shouldnt have any problems , dont download what the links send you too though because it is just a scam

srnity & TheJazzCafe: There has been a conversation on the Feature Board (until they were asked to take it elsewhere(Computer Board)) last couple of days. Could be linked to the same problem, sounds like Spyware, something called Errorprotector there though & also banner ads that have been showing up.
If you have a decent Virus protector, Firewall and pop up Blocker you should be fine. I know AVG (grisoft.com) do some good free stuff & if you use Firefox you can get an add-on called Add Block Plus.

Thanks for the info MM & Jason

srnity: i think rook members can disable all banners and ads on this site .. i think they shouldnt have a problem anymore then

(i just disabled all yesterday, so its too early for me to be sure :))

not sure if pawns can disable anything

I do have good virus protection, and I never download links, but this thing is persistent, and is even bugging me when I'm on my Mac. It won't allow me to close it down. Is it coming from one of the banner ads? It's just happened again in my game with Hrqls. Maybe it's him.

TheJazzCafe: lol .. shh .. dont tell anyone .. but i am helping the puffins to take over the world :)

have a look at fencer's blog (brainking.info) to see what he writes about adblocks

I've done that, and I've installed the ad on. Puffins rule, ok!

Hi, I just joined and cant figure out how to start a new game for anyone to play. Can someone please help me???

Just click on 'new game' under the games menu (it should be the near the upper left hand of your screen).

Select the game and then you'll be presented with a lot of options. Just hit 'continue' (it explains this on the page as well) and your game will go into the waiting games pool for others to see.

JadiesMomma: Hello and welcome. If you look at the left u will see a list Click on" new game" link then u can create a game from there, or go to "waiting games" and u can pick up a game from there.

Enjoy!!

Thanks :O) I just wasnt going far enough...

TheJazzCafe: Thank goodness, I thought it was just me. When I check my cookies I see one from PC turbo Pro. When it happens it tries to download an .exe file and tries to loop so that you cannot avoid it. It's becoming very annoying.

coan.net:
Unfortunately, I'm not sure that the the site is completely clean. Yesterday I pulled up brainking.com with internet explorer on a different machine (this time at work... one with commercial virus protection) , navigated around to my messages and back, and eventually was hit with ErrorSafe and WinFixer.

kirsten: I use Firefox & have virus protection through a major University & it still gets me too

PLEASE NOTE: I have continued this discussion over on the http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=52 Discussion Board, in case anyone wants to follow it over there to continue the discussion.

How do you close your account on this server?

jadarite: Just log out, surf on to your cool and hypermodern chat'n'play sites and forget about it.

jadarite: Just don't visit http://brainking.com and your account will go old and not be used again.

If you need help not visiting the site again, here are some fun steps:

1. Get a piece of paper.
2. Write down 10 random letters & numbers
3. Go to "My profile", and near the top - click on "change password"
4. Put those 10 random letters & numbers in as your new password
5. Save & log out
6. Destroy the paper before you have a chance to remember the password.
7. Ta-Da, can't sign back on!

jadarite: When you are finished picking up all the games from the waiting room and then resigning them, of course.

coan.net: nah, make it even better, don't write down the random number & leatters! Just close your eyes and hit some keys.

Wow, y'all are one tough crowd tonight

srnity: Ive seen tougher on here, just not on this board LOL

So, can I send Fencer a message each time I collect 25 seeds in Mancala and my opponent keeps on playing? ;-)

OTOH, that situation is much easier to program than a Go endgame.

Oooh, I just discovered a very cool feature in the Safari 3.0 public beta (also available for Windows, in case anyone didn't know) that isn't in Firefox: these text fields we type our messages into on brainking? They can be resized - along both the X and Y axes - by dragging the little zoom lines in the lower right corner of the field, just like a window. Very cool indeed.

Okay, I'm done.

plaintiger: Sorry my friend Tiger, Firefox has Resizeable Textarea for ages, well since version 1.5 was released, its just another of there 2200+ extensions
Gordon (or was it BBW) told me about it, great & very useful

See if i can find, i use it

Here it is Resizeable Textarea

That works really well.  I don't have time to read about 2,200 features, so I let other people tell me what's good.  You did a great job.  That really helps with entering things in the plain text editor box.  That lil thing is dinky.  But, don't tell Fencer I said that.

MadMonkey: oh WAY cool! Thanks for finding that.

I see that it works in the text box up top, but not on the reply 'box' inside the message. hmmmmm

TexasToest: Some of the smaller extensions for Firefox are the best one
Duplicate Tabs & Searchbar Autosizer, are both great ones as well

Eriisa:It should do if you mean when reply to a message as it does even when you are editing
Sometimes it does not always work on the line/corner, sometimes you have to move the cursor about a bit

MadMonkey: You know how at the bottom of a message it says "Reply (box)"? If I click reply, the text box is resizable. If I click box, the text box to type in is not resizable.

Eriisa: oh, got ya, i never used that so i had not noticed, but you are right
Any, open box (as in not surrounded like the box one) can be resized

MadMonkey: ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, now I understand!

Medal table Brainking World Championship after Jarmo

1. Dominika 1 - 0 - 0
2. Uganda 0 - 1 - 0
3. Slovakia 0 - 0 - 1

I HOPE THIS IS THE APPROPRIATE BOARD TO REQUEST HELP HERE ON BK?
I AM A NEW PLAYER AND I AM ALSO VISION IMPAIRED AND USE WEBTV TO ACCESS THE GAMES HERE. CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THERE IS A GAME SETTING TO ENLARGE THE SIZE OF THE GAME PIECES FOR THE ESPIONAGE GAMES AS THERE IS FOR THE CHESS, CHECKERS, AND OTHER GAMES HERE? I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND ANY SETTTINGS TO ENLARGE THE SIZE OF ESPIONAGE GAME PIECES ON MY OWN. THE NUMBERS OF THE GENERAL PIECES ARE JUST WAY TOO
SMALL TO SEE ON THE ACTUAL GAME
BOARD. WHEN I WAS SETTING UP THE BOARD THE PIECES APPEARED TO BE MUCH LARGER, BUT ONCE THE GAME
PLAY ACTUALLY BEGAN THE NUMBERS ON THE PIECES SEEMED TO "SHRINK"
DOWN?! HELP PLEASE!!!

TIA FOR ANYONE WHO CAN HELP ME

8^)

SEAWOLF2

Fencer, what happened to the Firefox button you had at the bottom of the left column ?

Is it possible for us to add a button anywhere, like in a Profile or top of a Discussion board.

MadMonkey: No, it's not possible.

SEAWOLF2: I don't know the first thing about webtv or anything. But if you say the pieces appeared larger before, maybe your browser is shrinking the board to fit on the screen? Try removing the left menu bar (at Settings page) and the notation column and see if that helps.

Again, I'm just guessing here, don't know if it has anything to do with it.

can someone talk me thru the autopass feature - i don't expect it to soul shattering but was offered it now after 3yrs of BK...

sonar: not sure if this is the info your looking for but
click on waiting games
at the top of that page click on change the game filter
near the bottom of the new page it says select games which you want to play with the auto pass feature
choose the games you want
click on save and finish