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Hm, as far as I know, Music-on-Hold is different on Leeds and Soton phone systems. I only know that the wav file on the Leeds MX is called "breath_control.wav"
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David Davies 'Most parents do not want gay children'
tom_newton replied to gmonks's topic in General Chat
There's a suggestion that gay children don't want bigoted politicians, so hopefully this sort of thing will even itself out -
Smoothwall Support - Your comments?
tom_newton replied to danbee's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
@sjl - drop me an email with comments on the new UI -- we have a full time UI chap now who would be interested to hear how we can improve. As for the slow response to support queries, it is currently #1 priority round here to get this resolved, and we certainly will. There have been a number of issues which seem to have compunded the problem, but we won't hide behind excuses, we need to make this better, and we will. -
Smoothwall Support - Your comments?
tom_newton replied to danbee's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Thanks for the info guys - I will talk to our support manager. I knwo they're trying to fit a load of new procedures in around support with the aim of improving consistency, but it is clearly early days just yet. -
Likely in /var somewhere - run grep -lR knownblocked.com /var that might show the location up. Helping someone move to Trend... what next?
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Donated.
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It's tricky sometimes when you have a "speciality" distro to bump kernels. I know we suffer hyper-v legacy drivers, although we have an upcoming release which includes "the good stuff" it is going to be a long time in test.
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You certainly shouldn't need to whitelist anything. It's generally pretty well behaved especially on the desktop.
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Squid Transparent Proxy Issues
tom_newton replied to robjcrowston's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
IS DNS pooched on your client machine? With a traditional proxy you can get away with it, as the proxy does lookups, with transparent, the client does lookups. -
Drop me an email and I will forward it on to the relevant people. ICT Direct may be interested (they're local-ish) and maybe LUNS?
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What content filtering do you use?
tom_newton replied to BStevens's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
@techdave - sorry to hear you had a crappy experience with us. We can't get it right every time, but it sounds like we got it pretty wrong for you. PM me your details, at least so I can make sure whatever bit you gets sorted. If you come to BETT, i'd gladly trade war stories over a coffee, or drop me a line by email or phone. @glennda yes Dan is still about, though we're on a completely different platform to dg now (cunningly called dansguardian3 if you look at the binary name...) -
What content filtering do you use?
tom_newton replied to BStevens's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Thanks for the vote of support there chaps, much appreciated Sitting in a hotel room in soton after a day with our dev team, it is good to see that our hard work doesn't go unnoticed. -
Get it on a linux box (just the files), and run strings file.ext | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq and see if there are any dirty words lurking.
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Copying lines from multiple logfiles, based on line content
tom_newton replied to larss's topic in Scripts
You already have the "hour" in an integer format.. keep spitting lines to your first hours file until that changes, then change filename. I would suggest perl is the language for this... -
I should have been there, but have had to go see our developers instead Some smoothwall people on a stand somewhere tho.
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There's a couple of auto detect websites for both Microsoft and Apple - you might try blocking them, because then you get "you might need to sign in" on your desktop/i-device. This is a bit unpredictable mind, so if you're happy where you are i'd let sleeping dogs lie
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Smoothwall - request pricing and suggestions
tom_newton replied to siuko's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Yello! Drop me a PM or email with your details -
Thinking of the razr i, or maybe the htc one s, though the latter is becoming hard to find. Really struggling to replace my desire S with something mid-range but SMALL - all the mid range and above phones now are huge, proper pocket-busters.
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If it is possible in your filter, exclude the java domains from authentication. It rarely plays friendly.
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Got a text from my wife last week - "The wifi in this hotel is not encrypted, what should I do to be extra careful?" GOOD WIFE. Well taught Also: Milky milky for me too
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Website being redirected to www.google.co.uk
tom_newton replied to bodminman's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Seems unlikley. 2 key things would be: Keep all software on the webserver up to date, and do NOT use FTP. -
The book wasn't quite as good as I expected, but still very enjoyable. The man's flat out bonkers on twitter as well.
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Your opinion on your filter
tom_newton replied to calikit's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Thanks folks. FWIW, we are quite heavily blockular right out of the box - this is a relic of the days of BECTA standards, which required us to have a tight tight tight standard policy - we hope, one day, there'll be other standards to live up to *sniff* *weep* As for reporting... all true - we've got some fairly in-depth reporting tools, but they can be tricky to use in places. We are, as someone mentioned, working on a "version 2.0" right now. In fact, only 2 hours ago i was chatting with the developers working on it... VERY exciting... -
Kill process(es) of a running script in Linux
tom_newton replied to SimpleSi's topic in Raspberry Pi, Arduino & Other SBCs
Read this, and have fun: select – Wait for I/O Efficiently - Python Module of the Week
