Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:35:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > "Infinitely opening windows" != "the NY Times popping open a > 'sidebar' window". And there are lots of sites that do that. Too > many to whitelist. NYT pops up a sidebar window? Huh, hadn't noticed... I have all my browsers config

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-02 Thread George Borisov
Ron Johnson wrote: > > The FF plugin "NoScript", plus a hosts file with a long list of > advertiser sites pointed to 127.0.0.1 do the job of eliminating most > advertising. Host files? That's S old-school. :-p http://adblockplus.org http://www.littleyojik.co.uk/files/adblock_rules_20060627.t

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/06 00:23, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> "Infinitely opening windows" != "the NY Times popping open a >> 'sidebar' window". And there are lots of sites that do that. Too >> many to whitelist. > > Not in my experience. I have

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > "Infinitely opening windows" != "the NY Times popping open a > 'sidebar' window". And there are lots of sites that do that. Too > many to whitelist. Not in my experience. I haven't noticed any reduced functionality from not having popups. In fact it's kept me out of so

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/06 15:48, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] > That can work effectively. I set up something like this for clients in > a homeless shelter a while ago. To prevent people changing the > preferences in Mozilla (or Firefox), from the local host proxy

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Mark Grieveson
You should not need a separate machine to run DansGuardian (and e.g. > tinyproxy). They'll run on the "main" machine and you would simply need > to point your browser to the "localhost" proxy. > > Of course there is nothing to stop your daughter reconfiguring the > browser to bypass DansGuard

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/06 10:24, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:54:36PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: >> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:49:14 -0500 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:32:46PM +0200, David Baron wrote: My daught

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:54:36PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:49:14 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:32:46PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit > > > with her and she wil

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread George Borisov
Micha Feigin wrote: > > Problem with those things that it can be really difficult to close the window. > Especially with those sites you trip into by accidents. As a means to keep you > there they just keep popping open more and more windows, you need to be really > quick to leave ... Only if you

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:39:37 + Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:38, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 10/31/06 13:32, David Baron wrote: > >>> My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able > >>> to sit with her and she wi

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:49:14 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:32:46PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit > > with her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. > > What is there around for keep

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:32:46PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit with > her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. > What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for konqueror or opera? I have a moderately

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:32:46PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit with > her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. > What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for konqueror or opera? Hi David, there are d

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Paul Cager
David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:38, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/31/06 13:32, David Baron wrote: My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. What is there around for keeping kids off the smut,

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:16:28PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:38, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 10/31/06 13:32, David Baron wrote: > > > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able > > > to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it > >

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:32:46 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit with > her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. > What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for konqueror or opera? > >

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:38, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/31/06 13:32, David Baron wrote: > > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able > > to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it > > herself. What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for > >

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 13:32, David Baron wrote: > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able > to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it > herself. What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for > konqueror or ope

GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread David Baron
My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for konqueror or opera? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub