On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 at 17:41, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > I've heard of it; it's a dismal embarrasment. It plain doesn't work; > blocking a lot of images that are not supposed to be blocked. > http://www.peacefire.org has details on this.
And even if this image scanner did work, I can imagine the load it'd put on the server. :( > But seriously, the problem of stopping people in an organization from > wasting its resources for frivolous and non-work-related activity > (such as surfing for pornography) is an administrative problem, as my > cousin realized when he started doing admin work for my uncle's > company's network. Technological solutions are NEVER GOING TO BE GOOD > ENOUGH, at least not in the foreseeable future. This is a pointer to me, it's ringing my bell, so here I come to blabber about how we did it here in The Leather Collection. Short story: we changed the office layout. Long story: we started having shared Internet for the network a couple of years back when we were in an office environment that had a number of "hidden spots", and some hidden spots with computers, obviously linked to the network. What did this allow? Porn, of course. :) When we moved to our new office here in Alabang, we got a factory building, nice, sprawling setup. As a clue: the administrative floor is literally a floor, with four foot high dividers to put a little bit of order. What's more, we have the computers in a bunk-type setup, with their rears facing the walls. What's the effect of this? Well, no porn. Nakakahiya kasing mag-porn kung alam mong kitang-kita ka ng lahat ng tao. Plus we backed this up with an administrative memo that said in so many words that if you're cought browsing sites that have nothing to do with work, you're out. The rationale: the company paid for employee time, the computers, electricity, and the Internet connection. We can dictate the can's and cannot's. I believe this beats all available technological solutions, for now. As a CompSci major I hope that will change in the coming years. :) > If your students are surfing for pr0n, get the administration to say > that such usage of the school's resources is unacceptable and will > result in punishment. Watch the squid logs every now and then; write > a script that will pick out a few JPEG requests from the log at > random; if anyone thinks they can get away... :) And make sure monitors can be seen from the hallway. That way the guys will get at least a little bit ashamed. Imagine surfing through porn sites while your crush passes by. Oh my, what a turn off. (Well, at least for -most- Filipina women). --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
