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[ale] Niece's laptop
One idea I'm thinking about for my daughter is Squid. It does not solve
your problem but I'm planning on using it to only allow her to visit
sites I approve of. If she needs to go to a new site then I will add
that to the list on the Squid server.
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 12:40 -0400, Joshua Kite wrote:
> I've played with filtering in a number of ways. One of the better
> solutions for MS machines is Safe Eyes. The software has to be
> installed on every MS machine. Safe Eyes does offer an appliance
> which is based on linux, but there is no linux version available, and
> the appliance is cost prohibitive for home use.
>
> For our home I've been considering setting up a proxy through which
> all traffic will travel using either dansguardian or censornet. I've
> not begun working with either of them, so I can't comment on their
> impact on performance or their effectiveness. It looks like censornet
> follows the traditional URL filtering method while dansguardian
> actually dynamically studies the page and determines whether to allow
> it through based on bayesian filtering.
>
> Of course, both of these solutions requires setting up a proxy. I
> don't know whether you could set either of these could be set up to
> run on a single machine to filter it and only it. Even if that were
> possible, her hardware might not be up to that sort of task.
>
> Good luck. This is a problem all of us parents will have to face for
> a long time.
>
> On 7/31/06, Dow_Hurst <dhurst at mindspring.com> wrote:
> My niece has a IBM Thinkpad 770Z that had Win98 on it. She
> does mainly AIM messaging and watches DVDs. I think she
> browses the web some but this is thru AOL's security enabled
> browser that blocks most inappropriate content. The DVD
> player stopped working and the machine would lock up alot. I
> offered to put Linux on it and set it up for her. Right now,
> I have SUSE 10.1 on it, DVDs will play, and firefox runs. Of
> course it is slow, but it is useable. However, the concern is
> the lack of any oversite on the browsing of the web. The
> machine is pushed to the max just running 10.1 and KDE. I
> tried XFCE but it is so plain that I am sure the more usual
> graphical environment of KDE is what my neice will use. How
> can I filter out bad sites as well as AOL security center
> would? Can the machine manage that and get updated on it's
> own somehow? Is there a service or site that does what AOL's
> software does for protecting kids while browsing the web?
>
> Kopete will manage online messaging just fine. Abiword is
> fast enough for word processing for school. Firefox is great
> for browsing. I even had a wifi card from Edimax that will
> work well with SUSE.
>
> The machine is a PII at 366MHz with 128Mb RAM. Has a small
> 10Gb hard drive that is a bit noisy. She earned the money and
> bought the machine herself. I hate to say to her that I can't
> help and I need to put Win98 back on it with AOL's software
> just to please my sister and brother-in-law. Any ideas on
> what would be best?
>
> There is a Linksys wifi WRT54G router in the house she will
> connect thru. I believe there is a service from Linksys for
> filtering web pages available there. I'd love comments. Even
> a new laptop as a gift would still need to have good filtering
> of web browsing. I just can't plan on being able to manage
> the filter list manually as I don't have that kind of time or
> dedication!
> Thanks,
> Dow
>
>
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