Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-30 Thread C.Anne Wilson
I agree - already done that, but it was his concern that po-ups were making it difficult for him to comply that started this exchange of ideas. BTW, grounding had nothing to do with this, just a wakening up period that seems to be needed every 6 months or so. He was accessing through my shared

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-27 Thread C.Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 25 Jun 2002 10:08 pm, you wrote: > Anne, > > It would be the JavaScript option for Navigator. You could > also use Opera for Windows. It has an option specifically > for pop-up windows. > > Thanks, Mark. I'll try that as soon as I can get to it :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Ser

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-25 Thread Kenn Murrah
WHAT A GREAT IDEA !!! Ground the kid so you can get to the computer yourself ... i wish I had thought of that! :-) --- Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just now he's grounded from his computer, and I'm > giving all the time I > can to Mandrake, so I'll get to that one as soon as > I

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
Derek Jennings wrote: > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 18:55, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>Miark wrote: >> >>>Anne, >>> >>>You can turn off pop-ups in Konqueror, Opera, and Galeon--perhaps others >>>too. Let us know which browser you're using, and we'll tell you how to >>>turn them off. >>> >>>Mi

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
robin wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> Miark wrote: >> >>> Anne, >>> >>> You can turn off pop-ups in Konqueror, Opera, and Galeon--perhaps others >>> too. Let us know which browser you're using, and we'll tell you how to >>> turn them off. >>> >>> Miark >>> >> >> He's on Win98, so

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-21 Thread Anne Wilson
robin wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> Miark wrote: >> >>> Anne, >>> >>> You can turn off pop-ups in Konqueror, Opera, and Galeon--perhaps others >>> too. Let us know which browser you're using, and we'll tell you how to >>> turn them off. >>> >>> Miark >>> >> >> He's on Win98, so it's Netscape

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Derek Jennings
If you install privoxy you can use any browser, and control behaviour for pop ups, adverts etc site by site. It works really good. Mandrake Forum has an article on it and you can get it from here http://www.privoxy.org/ derek On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:08, Josef Lowder wrote: > Thank you for

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Josef Lowder
Thank you for that very helpful explanation. I am using KDE 2.2.1 and my version of Konqueror has only three radio buttons, not four: Allow, Ask, and Deny. "Deny" is too restrictive because there are some good and useful uses of popups such as you described with your banks. "Allow" is a poo

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 7:55 pm, Josef Lowder wrote: > Great! -- Please do tell us how does one turn off pop-ups in > Konqueror? - From Konqueror select the Settings menu, then the Configure Konqueror ... item, then, on the window that opens, press

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
Baka Attila Tamás wrote: > Use Opera 6.x where you can turn off pop-ups... > > BAT I might look at that. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Josef Lowder
Great! -- Please do tell us how does one turn off pop-ups in Konqueror? On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:43, you wrote: > Anne, > > You can turn off pop-ups in Konqueror, Opera, and Galeon--perhaps others > too. Let us know which browser you're using, and we'll tell you how to > turn them off. > > Mi

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Miark
Anne, You can turn off pop-ups in Konqueror, Opera, and Galeon--perhaps others too. Let us know which browser you're using, and we'll tell you how to turn them off. Miark > My grandson likes to visit games and graphics sites, and he tells me > that he is plagued with pop-up porn. I haven't se

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux? [OT]

2002-06-18 Thread robin
> > >>On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:41:31 +0100, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>wrote: >> >>>My grandson likes to visit games and graphics sites, and he tells me >>>that he is plagued with pop-up porn. I haven't seen any of it, so I >>>don't know how serious it is, but he obviously thinks it undes

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 09:09 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:41:31 +0100, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > My grandson likes to visit games and graphics sites, and he tells me > > that he is plagued with pop-up porn. I haven't seen any of it, so I > > don't k

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:41:31 +0100, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My grandson likes to visit games and graphics sites, and he tells me > that he is plagued with pop-up porn. I haven't seen any of it, so I > don't know how serious it is, but he obviously thinks it undesirable. > He a