any chance of your votes?

[mharky]

does it take your IP address and only allow you 1 vote???

How many computers are there at uni???

I'll take KB, somone needs to take the main library and a 3rd for Hugh Robson

[DIDSCO]

Come on everyone, lets help Ben win this competition. He's in 2nd at the moment and needs our help.

[frog]

I voted mainly for you, but greatly preferred her best friend one. What is the gnome all about? Loved the egg.

[SeanC]

Ben now ahead on day 2. Donna's lead halved on all other days.

Is this the power of nopesport? Would any orienteers like to enter "Britain's Got Talent" - you're sure to win.

[DIDSCO]

Ben has closed the gap a lot this afternoon, he can really do this. Get everyone voting you can.

[Mrs H]

I've managed to vote on two of the home computers - but not the third

[SeanC]

The website has some software that works out your computer's IP address. It may think two of your machines have the same address.

Speculating a bit, if your ISP gives you a dynamic IP address (ie different IP address each time you log in), then maybe you can fool the website by turning your computer on and off and therefore getting a different IP address?

To find out your IP address in windows, select start, then "Command Prompt", then type ipconfig.

[andy]

To find out your IP address in windows, select start, then "Command Prompt", then type ipconfig.

Not necessarily the IP address their website will be able to see. Depends on your ISP, router etc. But enough boring geeky crap, I'll go vote now

[jab]

It isn't just your IP address: even with a dynamic IP address I couldn't vote again. But a bit of nosing around shows that it stores a cookie on your computer to say that you have voted. Delete that, reconnect to the internet and then you can vote again.

[Mrs H]

Ooooo sounds too tricky for me - i've just posted it on the HOC forum reminding the non-nopers that Ben sang for us at the JK05 banter night. still got Mr H's 'puter and young Neville's to go yet

the deadline is 12,30 pm tomorrow

[jab]

It's not that tricky (if I can do it then it can't be too technically demanding). I'm managing to vote once every 4 minutes or so. Ben has just taken the lead on day 5.

[SJC]

But a bit of nosing around shows that it stores a cookie on your computer to say that you have voted.

To make everyone's life easier, what is the cookie called ?

[jab]

On Firefox I click on Tools, Options (from the drop down menu), then on the Privacy tab. Then I click on Show Cookies and amongst the long list of cookies there is a folder called

c905photocompetition.com

I just click on that and click on "remove cookies"

[Blanka]

Seems like a pointless exercise of who can get more friends to get round more computers and not about the merit of the photos at all. I voted for some of Ben's photos and some of the others depending on what I thought represented the given word best.

But maybe I'm just a bit of an idealist??

The organiser really needs to get the voters to provide an email address to avoid multiple votes from the same person...

[Mrs H]

Oh you mean like Steve Redgrave had to in order to become Sports Personalty of the Year through the pages of Rowers World (or whatever it's called). I don't think anyone thought he didn't deserve!

Ben is obviously my favourite photographer - he's the only one there i've met and he did me a favour - he gets my vote - it is unfortunate that some members of my family are being disenfrachised by the IP/Cookie conundrum. So some of these extra votes will redress that balance