tom_newton

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Depends if you want to stick with doing the filtering on ISA or not. What are your aims in replacing smartfilter?

Even then, when physical access includes a screwdriver, only the latter provides protection, and even that is susceptible to evil-maid, and in some cases memory dump key recovery attacks.

For me, the 2 features of a scripting language: interpreted, and garbage collected. Neither of these is sufficient to be classed as "scripting" but both necessary IMO. It is becoming a very blurred distinction though.

Great post. One of the most influential bits of "learning" I ever did as a developer was to read a book on assembly - I actually never bothered with the later chapters, and never went on to write anything non-trivial in assembly, but the improvement in understanding that then rippled through my use of memory allocation in C, for example was immense. I would say understanding how the machine works at a low level (and proving it by making the machine work, however trivially, at that level), and understanding data structures and their properties are fundamental building blocks. To address part of the original question - yes, bash is a programming language, no it is not useful as a teaching aid because it lacks the necessary tools to produce decent data structures, and it has no advantages over, say, python. I would even say bash scripting is in may ways harder than many other languages to get started in.

PAS74... that's what Becta based their standards on. It took them years to bend it to work for edu filtering, and non-desktop products. They were just hitting it fairly sweetly when the rug was pulled. They still hadn't managed to include proxy avoidance mind, and that should be high on anyone's list. As for test suites.. we test our URL lists by listening to customers they're so frequently updated there's no automatic testing we do - but for our content filter rules we do stuff like pulling back previously categorised sites through the filter to see that it matches them correctly. In terms of tools we use - mostly perl/LWP and some curl/wget type stuff all home rolled pretty much.

My screen has a small spot of dead pixels (don't know what from) but has never had a cover or case, and it has been heavily used, and travelled far & wide with me, to no serious ill effect. I managed to get a hairline scratch on it too - but that's barely perceptible unless you shine a light in the right way. So it's been treated like crap and survived. Easy enough to clean as well when you drop toothpaste on it...

Did you change your ISP at the same time? Also, funky VPN issues can be down to MTU mismatches...

As to worldwide 3g - nothing beats downloading the uk times in the middle of the mara while on safari. Coverage is REALLY good - cant think of anywhere i have been with no coverage.

Not used the screensaver hack. Bought a sock case. Didn't use that either. Kindle gets treated like dirt - dropped, thrown in bags, booze spilled on it at my father-in-law's bar in kenya etc. and the only damage I have been able to do is a tiny patch of dead pixels, I have had it >1yr, maybe closer to 2. Wife has a case, it's a 3rd party leather, with a clip (useful) that folds back (double useful), and leaves charge-plug available (essential). She uses a little pocket on the inside of the case to hold passport and travel docs when she's away. Oh yes - that's the single worst thing about a kindle. You are supposed to turn them off for taxi, takeoff and landing, and my most-flown route is only an hour (Leeds Soton) so its a bit of a bind.

Read Simon's blog post here, and sign the petition: Smoothwall Blogspace: DfE Passes Buck on e-Safety

I'm still rubbish at this game but getting better. I still hate trains -- they can be so frustrating when they do "stupid" routing, and it is too easy to add a bit of track in order to try and unravel a bottleneck only to find it has bolloxed your signals. A signal simulator would be dead useful I like boats though. You can make great money once the second oil tanker arrives. I also managed to get a lot of $ out of some hovercraft routes...

From my PoV the kindle is the single best gadget I have ever bought. I've now bought 5 (gifts for: Wife, Mother, Brother-in-law, sister-in-law). Bad points: You aren't tied in, but you are limited to only using DRM books from amazon. For example I get DRM-free reference books from O'Reilly, and the wife buys 50% of her fiction from alternate stores. No lending (but I rarely borrow books). No "market" - usually there's one source for one book. PDF reading is limited. Newspapers imperfect. Good points: Changes your reading habits for the better. Immensely portable. Allows me to read a newspaper, where otherwise I would never bother.

Yes you do, you just don't know it yet

Our accounts folk use a brother one we got from Vicki at TCS (they're now called something else... penkeths?) and it has been good - low low volume use though.

Met one of the chaps from M247/Global AXS on Thursday on one of our partner training courses - they seem a nice bunch of chaps, and they have definitely got some good filtering oiptions now they were telling me they can get some pretty decent prices (I think they were sore that we use Metronet-uk @ Smoothie Leeds!)

Unless the student encrypted the disk (likelyhood = low) then it will just be that the unpriv'd user on the ubuntu live CD has a different uid from the one on-disk - if the disk mounts you should be able to read as root - "sudo -i" in a shell. Otherwise, the previously mentioned trick by @jinnantonnix works

Have been playing this a bit single player. Conclusion: I suck. Any advice? I don't like trains much as they get lost and the signaling is a bit opaque... but is it possible to turn a profit on a road network?

@camel not at all, no - you can change your mind at any time.

Without the box where you are doing your transparent proxying supporting transparent proxying of https connections you will not be able to do this - it is simply not possible to "convert" a non-proxied SSL connection into a proxied one without such a transparent proxy.

Do you need your kindle to get to the internet? You can download the books and then push them via USB. With kindles not being HTTP (but they use the ports!) you basically need to poke a hole in your firewall for them which is a bit of a sod.

Zultys with Aastra phones and the odd polycom phone. Decent kit, we've had it in 5 or 6 years. Salesforce integration's our next step. Good call centre options for sure.

Inline anti-malware is a bit of a cpu hog, and it's an extra expense. That's the negatives. On the positive side it is far superior to lists, or reputation services - expecially if it's one of the anti-malware products that is good "pro-actively" against threats, and will go a long way to keeping viruses off the desktop - no replacement for desktop AV but a nice belt & braces to have.

Yes - we DO use SNI for non-MITM transparent filtering.

For clarity re: "IWF filtering" - you will go a LONG way before you will find an IWF-free ISP. Do ask your ISP though. As an IWF member, Smoothwall includes IWF lists, updated daily, automatically, as mandated by our membership agreement - which cannot be inadvertently turned off.