[clug-talk] INTERNET BLOCKING

Fri May 8 22:43:07 PDT 2009

Hi there,

Just thought I'd chime in with my recommendations, based on use with my own
daughter:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1803 (ProCon Latte)

"ProCon is a content filter for the Firefox browser created by Corvineum,
and based on BlockXXX (by Tom Christensen). ProCon filters any type of
content on any web page. If left on default, ProCon limits itself to filter
pages containing explicit content automatically, based on the text. ProCon
can also be used as a profanity filter, and makes use of a whitelist -
useful for trusted sites."

http://procon.mozdev.org

I use this Firefox extension with my daughter and can attest to it's
effectiveness and ease of configuration out of the box.

Cheers!

Chris

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From: clug-talk-bounces at clug.ca [mailto:clug-talk-bounces at clug.ca] On Behalf
Of Dan Mueller
Sent: May-05-09 1:13 PM
To: clug-talk at clug.ca
Subject: [clug-talk] INTERNET BLOCKING

I looked at the mozilla idea and did some reading up and it would seem that
its not quite ready for that yet. And as for my 3 daughters, they as of yet
wouldn't know how to go around the browser.

 What is the deal with the dns thing. Keep in mind that im like cornel
klink.  I KNOW NOTHING!!

Dan

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Re; Wednesday meeting. (Gustin Johnson)
   2. Re: Re; Wednesday meeting. (TekBudda)
   3. QUESTIONS ON INTERNET BLOCKING. (Dan Mueller)
   4. Re: QUESTIONS ON INTERNET BLOCKING. (simon at mungewell.org)
   5. Re: QUESTIONS ON INTERNET BLOCKING. (Dafydd Crosby)
   6. Re: QUESTIONS ON INTERNET BLOCKING. (Mark Carlson)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 22:30:16 -0600
From: Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca>
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Re; Wednesday meeting.
To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca>
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simon at mungewell.org wrote:
> I think that the headache of a video recording would probably be too much,
> but an audio one might be great idea.... does anyone have a digital
> recorder with a decent mic?
> 
I can record with my laptop, I have an external mike that could be used.

> Question for the Exec - Is it worth investing in something like this for
> CLUG?
> 
Possibly, I am not sure what the bank account is at these days, but I am
pretty sure that some fund raising would be required.

> That said, I have some videos from COSSFEST and am working on getting them
> converted for web download, which includes Mark's presentation on a
> similar topic. Audio is not that great, but better than nothing.
> 
> If anyone wants to grab an 'raw' version they are about 10GB per session
> (PAL MiniDV), I'll have a portable drive with them on at the meeting. If I
> get around to it I might strip out the audio to a seperate file.
> 
I have a camera and tripod that could be used.  I will see if I can get
them back for Wednesday.  After that it is pretty easy to post to the
website with a flash player (I know it is evil, but the code is open
source at least).

Cheers
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 23:15:30 -0600
From: TekBudda <tekbudda at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Re; Wednesday meeting.
To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca>
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simon at mungewell.org wrote:
> I think that the headache of a video recording would probably be too much,
> but an audio one might be great idea.... does anyone have a digital
> recorder with a decent mic?
> 
> Question for the Exec - Is it worth investing in something like this for
> CLUG?

I had to do some shopping around for one of these in my last job so I 
can offer some insights if you like.  It was being used for board 
meetings & the price was actually pretty reasonable for the unit they 
did get.

As an alternative, could we not jut get an mp3 player with recordability 
on it?  I would imagine they would be pretty inexpensive for a one or 
two GB unit.

TekBudda

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 08:25:25 -0600
From: "Dan Mueller" <danm at reliable-tube.com>
Subject: [clug-talk] QUESTIONS ON INTERNET BLOCKING.
To: <clug-talk at clug.ca>
Message-ID: <BCDE239A5359436D81A070DB29190379 at rtcalgary>
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More questions.  How can I only allow certain websites to be browsed on my
kids laptop. It has teen puppy loaded on it. I looked on the 3 browsers on
it and cant figure it out. Is there a simple way??

Dan 

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:59:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: simon at mungewell.org
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] QUESTIONS ON INTERNET BLOCKING.
To: "CLUG General" <clug-talk at clug.ca>
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> More questions.  How can I only allow certain websites to be browsed on my
> kids laptop. It has teen puppy loaded on it. I looked on the 3 browsers on
> it and cant figure it out. Is there a simple way??
>

I believe that you can control DNS lookups if you register an account with
OpenDNS, that way you could prevent lookups outside the allowable
web-space.

I assume that your son is not yet skill enough to defeat this....
Simon.

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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:48:36 -0600
From: Dafydd Crosby <dcrosby at userful.com>
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] QUESTIONS ON INTERNET BLOCKING.
To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca>
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simon at mungewell.org wrote:
>> More questions.  How can I only allow certain websites to be browsed on
my
>> kids laptop. It has teen puppy loaded on it. I looked on the 3 browsers
on
>> it and cant figure it out. Is there a simple way??
>>
>>     
>
> I believe that you can control DNS lookups if you register an account with
> OpenDNS, that way you could prevent lookups outside the allowable
> web-space.
>
> I assume that your son is not yet skill enough to defeat this....
> Simon.
>
>   
Another way could be setting up dansguardian locally, but that's not the 
easiest way of going about it.
-Dafydd

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:11:09 -0600
From: Mark Carlson <carlsonmark at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] QUESTIONS ON INTERNET BLOCKING.
To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca>, Dan Mueller
	<danm at reliable-tube.com>
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On 5/5/09, Dan Mueller <danm at reliable-tube.com> wrote:
> More questions.  How can I only allow certain websites to be browsed on my
> kids laptop. It has teen puppy loaded on it. I looked on the 3 browsers on
> it and cant figure it out. Is there a simple way??

A Firefox add-on is a possibility.  Here is one, but I have not tried it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5881

Obviously, if your kid wants to avoid it, they will just open up
another internet browser... boy, that takes me back.

-Mark C.

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