A while ago there was a lot of discussion about the new logo - its aesthetics, the image it projects etc. ...

Some (many ?) of us , for various reasons, preferred the old logo, but one reason for this preference was never stated. It is time to come clean ...

The old logo was a nice pale blue. So you could have a browser window open in the background on your workstation at work, and no one even noticed it .

The new logo is bright red. Every time you go to a new sub-forum, or refresh your screen the browser goes back to the top of the page. The logo screams out from your screen and everyone can see that you have something going on that is not work-related .

The company I work for has pretty much the same logo (similar size/colours) so I get away with it!

To be honest I had not even noticed. Such things don't bother me.

I work from home!

I have almost perfected the "refresh and immediately scroll down" movement

Me too... I thought I must be the only one to do this!

Someone needs to write a browser plugin that turns forum pages into something that looks like a presentation!

Now you've mentioned it, I realise I too have the click-load-scroll-down move down pat too

Yep, me too!

For me, it wasn't so much that people didn't notice the old logo. It was more that it actively looked official and work-like. In fact it looked a bit like the National School of Government logo which is very work-related. It was only when you got to one of the posts that is full of smilies that it stopped looking official!

You could try using the Lo-Fi option. That gets rid of the logo.

Looks even more suspicious IMO...

It also means you can't post...

Haha this made me smile. I'm in the same boat as most of you. I've now perfected the load and scrole movement so that when it loads fully it just looks like some text im reading

One of the many reasons I'm so glad I no longer work in an office...

The old logo looked so regal and respectable, but this latest effort is just amateur looking

I guess I'm a logo snob

Neither do I (and I never have), but I'd be fired if I attempted to view the forum while working...

You can disable automatic loading of images. I haven't done this for ages, not since I was using dialup, but browsers still have that option. It's still there in Firefox - edit -> preferences -> Load images automatically

When did it change?
I'm not sure I ever saw the logo before this. Perhaps it's the same on the certificates?

Mid 2009

Getting it right is vital when it comes to logos.

The government paid a lot of money for this - http://www.ogc.gov.uk/

(look at it sideways!)

At the time YAP gave us a little script to chop it off - I applied that, and never see the new one if on my own computer. At work, I do and it sort of blobs at me every time I peek at the forum. I guess that makes me less likely to go foruming in my precious teabreak time...

Some devious people I know specifically use this browser:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29

Because it looks like they're doing some sort of suitably imposing coding....!

Lynx!!

It's what we had on the university unix-based vt-100 systems when I first started on the web (1994)...aaah, happy days

people who know what lynx is (and I'm not referring to the deodorant)

(anyone remembers gopher?)

But anyway - if you have adblock plus, you can block images selectively.

I used to run Lynx on my Solaris box at home... SSH session from work to home meant I could browse the net from a terminal and look like I was working (this was obviously in the quiet periods!).

Oh, and there was always X11 tunneling over SSH if I wanted to open a proper browser on the sly which wouldn't be subject to the policies of the proxy!

Hrm, memories of running eggdrops and trialling a MUD server on my 'nix box... *sigh*

*hadn't anticipated triggering multiple geeky nostalgia trips*

hmm my PC appears to have changed to a weird, indecipherable language

I actually understood all that...

*runs and hides*

Sorry!

That's right. It is different on certificates now too, hence my Grade 3 one doesn't match



Naturally conversations get diverted, it's normal. My "tech speak" knowledge is just sadly lacking , despite everybody trying to drag me into the 21st century

So's mine : I wouldn't worry!

I had a Commodore 64 in the early-mid 80s. The best program I could write on said machine was as follows :

10 PRINT"BARRY"
20 GOTO 10

Me too

Lynx is pretty cool actually. I've only ever used it during a Gentoo installation though.

Now I'm utterly lost...

What I want to know is why all these computer whizzes are talking about animals ... lynx, gophers and penguins??

Barry, Gentoo is a Linux distribution where you compile your own bina......actually, I won't go into detail

It'll save your typing fingers.

Actually I did get rid of a virus all by myself once, and I was very proud of getting my computer running again without any help. It took 6 hours of hard work...

However, just two days later, the computer broke terminally from a completely different problem...

/me is posting this from an Ubuntu linux 64-bit computer

I'll shut up now. But I did figure out how to block the logo in my browser.

Keyboard - 1 bit, screen - 2 bits, speakers - 3 bits, hard drive - 4 bits, mouse - 5 bits, printer - 6 bits, modem - 7 bits.

I have a 7-bit computer

lol..... That is brilliant!!!

- in that case mine has 65 bits because I dropped it last year and a piece broke off. I stuck it back with black electrical tape.

Does that make my laptop a 1-bit computer, and my netbook a little-bit computer?

OK, so maybe we don't like the new logo... But we can try to block it out:

http://bacolicio.us/http://abrsm.org/forum

Can I have a fried egg with that please?

OK

http://tinyurl.com/5rdjyob

We could have done with that a couple of weeks back...

I'm actually logged in to two MUDs[1] right now.

[1] Well, just talkers, ie: without the pretending to be a mage and running round waving a sword in the air.



If you only have a 7-bit computer that explains why you can't do pound signs, as you need another bit for them.

Thanks!!