On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Ryan wrote: > He likes to play flash and javascript games, and I was concerned that the > pentium 120 would make that unplesent, but It probaly wouldn't be too much > better over ethernet, I've used VNC over ethernet before, and it's a bit of a > pain, but perhaps that's just an issue with VNC.
It's tough to judge. It's not only a problem with bandwidth, but largely latency. I would think that the p120 would be better off handling moving gfx on it's own, specially if you can drop some ram and a half-decent video card on it. > I was thinking of just seting up debian or some othe distro with a thin > installer and not letting him have root ( at least not at first ) That, would have been my first choice, unless of course you want to boot completely off the network, in which case you'd have a nice quiet pc. > > I also need a way to log his internet use, I've already got squid installed > on my gateway, can it be setup to log URLs? > I believe so. You might even go as far as firewalling him on the fly, maybe using a perl script to cross reference the url with a list of 'bad' words (xxx, naked, etc) from the URL, and adding a rule to iptables/ipchains. -Gabe _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech