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The forum registration now includes an additional security question. It is a simple maths question, however it is written in such a way that a human user should be able to answer it easily but a non human (robot) wouldn't know what to do. Hopefully this should go a long way to stopping automated sign up of spaming robots.

Again, if we start getting too many false positives with this technique we will continue to tweak and try alternative methods. Existing users should not be affected by this measure.

Dan

Hi All,

We are increasing our defences against hackers and spammers, and have rolled out a new firewall configuration. It is going to take some time to get the configuration right as, spotting spam from a genuine post can be difficult. If you do get access denied messages, please rest assured that we have seen it and will continue to tweak the rules until we are letting through legitimate traffic and blocking the spam.

Dan

There has been a number of Spam user accounts set up recently. These accounts are not genuine users whom are interested in the commandos, but are fictitious accounts that contain links to other web-sites. To address this issue we have recently purged the database of suspicious accounts. This exercise may have inadvertently deleted some genuine accounts. If your account has been deleted by mistake through this exercise, please accept our apologies, and do sign up and activate your account again.

Thanks
Dan

It is hard to find the words to say, Bob to me was a true friend and his contribution to this website and to the memory and history of the commandos can never be replaced.

My first contact with Bob was through this Forum. Bob and Janet have been contributing to this site from the very early days. Bob was an expert on the History of No2 Commando and was very knowledgeable on the other commando units too. He and Janet have helped numerous users of the site to locate information on their commando relatives and friends. They have compiled lists of commandos Killed In Action and They Also Served, the photos that they have shared are invaluable and Bob's History of No2 Commando is real history.

I am glad I met Bob and Janet at Fort William last year. In person, there was no mistaking Bob was a good and kind man, who radiated warmth and humor. He also had the "dignified and modest" commando spirit. I will miss you Bob.

I hope Janet can continue to contribute to this site and our thoughts are with you and your family.

Dan & Gillian

Sorry everyone, set up the album in a hurry and messed up the permissions. It should be possible to add photos to the Remembrance Day 2007 photo album now.

Have you tried following the instructions at the top of this thread? The only thing additional to add is that the images will only be displayed in the browser as images, if they are .gif or .jpg format. Let me know if you have any problems.

Did this work?

This is a call to all commando veterans to send me your stories. We are going to have a permanent new section on the site for "Veterans Stories". This will be for veterans to provide their own personal account of their own experiences, or pay tribute to their commando friends. Simply send me the text either in a word document or an email, and include any photos that you want included with the article. I will then create the page and add it to the site for others to read.

I look forward to receiving your stories.

Dan

Hi All,

Just to let you know that the new gallery is up and running.

I hope you find it easy to use and useful. Due to time constraints, I have not been able to marry the security of the gallery with that of the forum. Which means that you will need to register with the gallery before you can use it. Simply follow the Register link on the gallery page, once you have completed the registration you will be sent an email, which will provide a link to activate your registration. Once successfully registered you can use the gallery to create Albums and Upload images to be shared with other members.

I have created an initial structure of Albums, which I hope you will find intuitive and useful. However, this is your gallery so please feel free to add new albums etc when you fell it is appropriate.

If you have any problems using the gallery then please let me know, with all things new it may take a little while before small issues are eradicated.

Initially there is an upload limit of 2Mb per image.

I look forward to seeing all those commando photos.

Dan

P.S.

A polite notice about gallery spamming: Unfortunately there are people on the internet that may attempt to abuse this facility by uploading inappropriate images. If you spot this then please report it to me as soon as possible so that I can remove the content and ban the user.

In the near future I will be looking for volunteers to help police the forum and the gallery.

Hi All,

Firstly, what a great day it was on Sunday.

Secondly, I have installed some new photo gallery software which will allow members to create their own albums and share photos with other members, easily. I am just finishing off the configuration, and it will hopefully be available by the end of tomorrow night. It will replace the current gallery.

The gallery has many advanced features, which I will explain once it is running.

So watch this space in the next couple of days.

Dan

I have found a reference that indicates that Fan Ling had a Japanese POW camp. http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/powresearch.html.

Maybe your granddad helped with the liberation of that camp, at the end of the war.

If you have a look around that website, there is lots of information about the Hong Kong garrison which had a lot of international troops, very interesting.

Hi All,

Earlier today we had an Anonymous poster create a topic and add messages of an Adult content. Luckily this was spotted quite quickly and the offending material removed from the site. In an attempt to stop this happening again, I have disabled Anonymous posting on all forums, from now on you must be logged in before you can create a new topic or new post.

In order to login, you must be registered.

If you are not registered, please register by following the link above.

I hope this change does not cause too much inconvenience, but it is a necessary measure required to combat unscrupulous individuals who have no interest in commando veterans, and just wish to cause offensive.

United we conquer!

Dan

Wiki pedia has this information on the town, but not the barracks:

Fangling Wikipedia

Ok, you now need to be logged in to post in the following forums:

Using the Online Forum
Collectors and Memorabilia Exchange
Commando Veterans Events

Anonymous post are allowed in the forums:

General Topics
Looking for Information

NIC wrote:Dan,
Just me with another suggestion! [don't groan - it was you that suggested it!]
I notice that 'Threads' and 'Replies' can be posted without the need of 'logging on' to the Site, this has resulted in a lot of 'Anonymous' posts recently.
Would it not be better if folk wishing to post Threads etc had to Log on before they were able to post?
Cheers,
Nick
ps. thanks for sorting out the clock issue

Hi Nic,

It is possible to make it mandatory for users to login before they can post. However I am conscious of the fact that many potential posters may not be "forum savvy" and I want to make it as easy as possible for people to post.
We can however make it mandatory to be logged in for specific forums, e.g. we could make this the case for "Collectors & Memorobilia" forum, but not for the "Looking for information" forum, what do you think?