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Well our infrastructure and servers were patched last, and have a clean bill of health. So that means there are no security vulnerabilities or issues with any directory or forum members accounts.

Annoying not to have an A+ We've been marked down due to not supporting forward secrecy to Microsoft Browser Internet Explorer Version 6 

Anyone still using IE 6 - throw it in the bin, it's time to upgrade! Latest version of IE is now 11.

Remember if you want to test your own or someone else's website, then here's the testing tool:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest

Hot off the press from our developer:

"I’ve extended the session lifetime to 24 hours. It was set to 24 minutes or until the browser closed (as a security precaution)."

Can you let me know if this has resolved your issue Sandra.

You've probably seen or heard about the current security exploit that Google and a Finnish security company have found.

If not, you can read the details here:

Heartbleed Bug: Public urged to reset all passwords

Your ISP should be patching your servers if they haven't already, but here is a handy testing tool to see if your website is affected:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html

Did you decide on a virtual or physical office, or are you still at the planning stage?

The arguments for and against an independent Scotland continue as we get ever closer to finding out if Scotland will vote end it's union with England.

The latest seems to be around energy, as the Westminster Government announces it may not buy electricity from an independent Scotland. Which could be a major issue as Scotland is only connected to the rest of the UK via the National Grid, unlike England which is connected Europe.

I suspect we will see a lot more dirty tactics from both camps, but I hope it doesn't create any long term bad blood, regardless of how the vote goes.

The more you analyse it though, the crazier it seems to even consider separating. 

I think I may have misunderstood, so just want to clarify for when Paul our dev is back tomorrow.

Are you saying you are only logged out if you close the browser tab/session? As opposed to having the forum sat inactive?

I had assumed you meant it was timing out while there was a browser session running, even if it was inactive in the background. In which case, no you shouldn't log out, but I believe we have it set to auto log out after 12 hours of inactivity.

If you close the browser session/tab the forum is running in, then yes you are currently logged out, which is I guess is the cause of your frustration.

I suppose we assumed most people cache their usernames in their browser so they can log back in, but I'll talk it through with Paul and see if we can leave sessions logged in. I assume this must be dictated by your session cookie, but not my area, so I'll stop waffling 

Aha, that makes sense. It looks like I was wrong, and we do log out if the session is left open, but I think it's something like 12 hours.

So I'm hoping your session should remain logged in today now you've updated the URL.

lol brilliant. Forgotten all about this.

Even with all the Google changes over the years, you are still the number 1 grumpy Clive  

Just checked in Google, next mission is to get you to show in Google images as well...

Although it is still showing for the old forum URL, so be interesting to see if you maintain market domination of grumpiness when Google re-indexes the page under the new URL.

Shall have to check back in a few days...

Today's the day, XP Doomsday!!

So they reckon 25% of the worlds PC's are still running Windows XP, and security fixes, patches and supports now officially ends.

Any members still running XP? If so are you planning to upgrade or soldier on?

Thanks for that Sandra, had sessions running all day unattended on IE, FF and Chrome, using different machines and different flavours of Windows, and none logged out! Obviously something not right somewhere 

Dev's having a couple of well earned days off, so shall add to his bug list, along with Social media links appearing to be the wrong way round (just updated yours).