Automatic Log-in problem

[Consumer Products Guy]

OK, I can get the Automatic Log-in for this site to perform correctly at work, but not (anymore) from my home computer? Can anyone help me, or do I need to grab some 10-year-old with glasses off the street to figure this out? As far as I know I haven't made any changes, but the HS Internet connector always makes upgrades.

[Uwe Neue]

I can count the plates in the kitchen, but for your problem, the 10year old with glasses looks like a good choice.

[tom jupille]

I can think of a couple of possibilities:

1. Any chance that you are inadvertently "logging out" at the end of a session? The auto login only works so long as you don't manually log out (which I guess makes sense).

2. Is your browser set to automatically delete "cookies" when you close it? The auto log-in works by leaving (and then looking for) a cookie on your system.

I just tried the auto login, and it seems to be working OK (so long as I don't clear my cookies! ), so there's not a lot else I can do to troubleshoot at this end.

[gcguy]

OK, I can get the Automatic Log-in for this site to perform correctly at work, but not (anymore) from my home computer? Can anyone help me, or do I need to grab some 10-year-old with glasses off the street to figure this out? As far as I know I haven't made any changes, but the HS Internet connector always makes upgrades.

I would be cautious about "grabbing 10 year olds off the street"!!!

I can't get my work pc to login automatically either but it does remember my name and autofills the user name.

[WK]

I'm waiting for my 6year old son to pick me up on incorrectly correcting his maths homework. It won't be long now....! He is probably already dating at school breaktimes! He certainly knows his way around the game boy advance - bit more to it than Atari tennis!
The teacher did a project about jobs with them the other day - he wants to be a palaeontologist! More trips to the natural history museum I guess.
WK

[HbJ]

The automated login is working fine for me.

So I guess this is a problem with your cookie settings as your browser treats all cookies as session cookies (i.e. deletes them when you exit the program).

If your browser remembers your login name and password you're using your browser's password manager (Mozilla/Firefox).

[Consumer Products Guy]

I'll try exploring the "cookies" approach, at least that sounds interesting. No, I'm not logging out (at least intentionally); neither I am really "grabbing 10 year-olds off the street". And no, I won't entice them with those "cookies" either.

[gcguy]

I'm waiting for my 6year old son to pick me up on incorrectly correcting his maths homework. It won't be long now....! He is probably already dating at school breaktimes! He certainly knows his way around the game boy advance - bit more to it than Atari tennis!
The teacher did a project about jobs with them the other day - he wants to be a palaeontologist! More trips to the natural history museum I guess.
WK

One of my 12 year old sons (yes I have 2) asked me a tricky question...

"Dad I have just designed a new car engine, who do I speak to about getting it checked?"

??????????????????

[WK]

CPG,
You have twin boys then?
We do too! Great fun - endless noise and talking around the house though! Great listening to their "discussions" on technical issues!
Nice when they're this age (6 1/2) - need some advice for teenage years -keep me posted!
WK

[GOM]

I think that Mark Twain hit the spot with

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

And with boys their toys get more expensive!

Ralph

[Consumer Products Guy]

WK -no, it's GC Guy who has twin boys. I have two non-males, teenagers, not twins. unny, though, after all these years, they've now "decided" to be a veterinarian and the other a forensics CSI...

[WK]

CPG,
Am I allowed to go in and correct my original posting or does that go against forum validation procedures??!!
WK

[Consumer Products Guy]

WK - I'll have to ask my QA department. Actually, this week, a 4-week QA employee came back to me with a completed service report and said that her boss said its use of white-out violated a QA SOP (a new employee in our department wrote down the results before reprocessing his GC data with the correct calibration information). This assays were for a non-regulated product, and I showed her that the SOP to which she refered (from her QA boss) actually applied only to lab notebooks, not to all documents. So I led her to the copy machine, made a copy, handed it to her and asked if there was any white-out on the copy, and she replied "no". Then I crumpled the original sheet, suggested she show that to her QA boss, tell him it was my crumple, and that his SOP applied only to lab notebooks. Anyway, so far I still have a job.................

[Mary Carson]

I think my QAU no longer WANTS to hear about the things I read in this forum....

[Consumer Products Guy]

Methinks the auto-log-in issue has something to do that I can't even log in through the link at the top, I need to use the link at the very bottom of the forum main page.