RE: [info-tech] MYSPACE and FACEBOOK

2007-04-25 Thread Richardson,Tony
Bad choice of wording... I don't mean that MySpace and Facebook are HTTP proxies but the kids are using proxies to get to these sites. It was early what can I say? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richardson,Tony Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [info-tech] MYSPACE and FACEBOOK

2007-04-25 Thread Richardson,Tony
Thanks Tim, We can't afford LightSpeed at the moment too many needful projects sucking up the money. Anyway we have Aristotle that informs of Proxy use and I have set keywords as you mention. What your telling me is that the reality is that the issue has to be handled through board policy. The

RE: [info-tech] MYSPACE and FACEBOOK

2007-04-25 Thread Frerichs, Chad
Tony, We have a Watchguard Firebox firewall that does content filtering including much of the proxy stuff, and we use that in conjunction with a Squid proxy server. Squid allows me to filter urls based on keywords. This seems to do a pretty good job of blocking most unwanted content (and once

RE: [info-tech] MYSPACE and FACEBOOK

2007-04-25 Thread Frerichs, Chad
Karl, I actually did not set this one up. It was in place when I was hired. However, I do run one at home as well. The school's runs on an old nameless box running a PII with Gentoo Linux on it. That is all that box does, and it handles it just fine. So, it does not take much to make it work.

[info-tech] thin client

2007-04-25 Thread Paul Heyer
Is anyone using thin client to reduce cost of replacing computers? This would be in a K-8 one building setting. I would be interested in any advice or experiences that anyone has had with this. How many application connections to the server is typical? Can I set up this up using Linux and