Re: [PLUG] slightly OT, Internet media and OpenDNS...

"Michael C. Robinson" writes: Your habit of dropping all the context in replies makes it really hard to intelligently respond to your messages... [...] > I'm concerned about using a proxy because I have seen sites break and I have > fairly slow servers. It will be a while before I can even con

Re: [PLUG] slightly OT, Internet media and OpenDNS...

Using OpenDNS is somewhat pointless if you don't block other resolvers. Ideally, my ISP would only permit access to the OpenDNS servers, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon. So one is stuck running their own firewall and one has to leave that intact, where it can be tempting not to at time

Re: [PLUG] slightly OT, Internet media and OpenDNS...

"Michael C. Robinson" writes: > 1) I want to go from clear text passwords in flat text files accessed by a >perl based cgi script to possibly salted passwords in a database. > > 2) I want a daemon operating on the firewall machines that can detect >inactivity and close out that host(s). >

Re: [PLUG] slightly OT, Internet media and OpenDNS...

Regarding item 5, this sounds a lot like moblock, which has all of the features you described, with lots of ways to define whitelist/blacklist traffic and use custom lists for the same. -- Sent from my Palm Pre On Oct 27, 2010 23:58, Michael C. Robinson wrote: 1)

Re: [PLUG] slightly OT, Internet media and OpenDNS...

1) I want to go from clear text passwords in flat text files accessed by a perl based cgi script to possibly salted passwords in a database. 2) I want a daemon operating on the firewall machines that can detect inactivity and close out that host(s). 3) I want redirecting when a user t

Re: [PLUG] slightly OT, Internet media and OpenDNS...

"Michael C. Robinson" writes: > Read the last paragraph first. Wouldn't it help to put it at the top, then? (FWIW, I suspect that -talk would be a better place for this anyway, despite the technical content.) > OpenDNS does a great job of blocking certain web sites when asked to, but > hulu is

[PLUG] slightly OT, Internet media and OpenDNS...

Read the last paragraph first. OpenDNS does a great job of blocking certain web sites when asked to, but hulu is not one of them. Hulu is carrying some hard core material. It isn't practical under Linux or any other system currently available to filter media for sexually explicit scenes. Peop