On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:26, Jay Askren wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good internet filter for linux? I do know about
> Dan's Guardian(http://dansguardian.org/) which is a good server filter, but
> I'm looking for a client side filter.
Dan's Guardian isn't a server filter. It is a proxy server, but there's
nothing preventing you from running it on a "client" machine. I experimented
with it a while ago, and it seems pretty good, and not difficult to set up.
I can help if you need it.
In practice, we put the kids' computers in the kitchen, where everyone can see
their screens, and just to double check, I occasionally glance through the
browser history. Since they don't (yet) realized they can clear the history,
that works just fine. We've decided to monitor, rather than filter, and made
that clear to our kids. Filtering does have its attractions, though.
Our bigger computer-related problems have actually been fights over who got
enough computer time, too *much* time on the computer and too much printing.
For anyone who's interested, Linux has provided some nice solutions to those
problems as well.
For the first two, 'timeoutd' has been great. It's a little daemon that
monitors the time users spend logged in, and enforces usage policies.
My configuration gives each of the kids one hour per day of computer time.
There's no more fighting about who's been hogging the computers (there are
two), because timeoutd enforces a fair allocation. Also, it imposes a hard
limit on the amount of computer play time.
If they want to use the computer for educational purposes, they can always ask
for a little more time, and I can give it to them.
I used quotas to deal with excessive printing for a while, but we've
eventually convinced the kids to ask permission when they print more than a
page or two, so I've removed the quotas.
Shawn.
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