Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 22:04:58 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, "Clayton Tycksen" <clay@tycksen.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: freebsd box as a porn filter? Message-ID: <000501c113fe$2fef08e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010724060057.V16237-100000@localhost.de>
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VGA16?!??! What about the Hercules Graphics Adapter? There's a xserver for that! ;-) (they can dither down the hicolor images to 16 colors if they are really desperate) Or maybe you could designate a certain time period during the day as "free porno time" and let them go to town then. :-) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of P. U. (Uli) >Kruppa >Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:17 PM >To: Clayton Tycksen >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: freebsd box as a porn filter? > > > >The best porn-filter is a good old vga16 video-card. >You simply will not be able to see anything. >Perhaps you can tune down XF86 ? > >If you whish to block a particular address you can just add >it to your /etc/hosts . Any request for it will be sent to >your own machine - and there is nothing undesireable. > >Place the workstations in a way that your users can't be >sure not to be watched. > >Uli. > > > >On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Clayton Tycksen wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:58:47 -0600 >> From: Clayton Tycksen <clay@tycksen.com> >> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: freebsd box as a porn filter? >> >> Dear FreeBSD, >> >> I'm relatively new to Unix. A good friend of mine has converted me to >> FreeBSD, and I'm enjoying it. >> I do have a question- as the administrator of a small network, I'm >> wondering if it's possible to set up FreeBSD on a box and have it >> perform filtering of pornography. I realise that I can set up a FreeBSD >> box to perform packet filtering (although I still need to figure out how >> to do that, exactly). But I'd like to prohibit nodes on our network >> from viewing pornographic material, and a few other general websites. I >> do not have an external 'router' per se - We have an ISDN connection to >> our ISP (which does not provide filtering). >> >> I've looked at available hardware designed specifically for spam and >> porn filtering for networks, but the price of the hardware is too high >> for my small network of 15 nodes and 2 servers. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> -- >> Clayton Tycksen >> Network Administrator >> Zoll & Tycksen, LC >> >> tel (801) 685-7800 ext 15 >> fax (801) 685-7808 >> cell (801) 913-2208 >> >> text msg: help@ztlaw.com >> >> ******************************************************************* >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >*--------------------------------------* >| www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | >| Wuppertal - Germany | >*--------------------------------------* > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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