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Ah well he's ended up with Gav looking after that area, the lucky devil. I'm glad someone we know got the job in the end, at least we're sure Mr. Fish has his head screwed on right - dread to think what could happen at a new build like that with the wrong sort of guy at the helm. And we get to keep you nearby in yorkshire john, also a bonus
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What's your new region?
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Why thank you for the vote of confidence kind sir If there's anything we can do to help sophos get unspecced, do shout
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Smoothwall and citrix client on Mac
tom_newton replied to Sheridan's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Don't know off top of my head - before we go down any more tricky routes just make sure you have done a no-auth for everything it tries to access.. and also remember that as "no auth" you won't have the same privs, so you might have to put the site in an allow list too. -
We can block that one and most like it - though you need to be prepared to make some changes to how you handle HTTPS traffic perhaps to get full benefit.
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I'd be extremely surprised if a properly dban'd disk had data recovered without recourse to specialist hardware... sounds fishy to me.
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Watch it... the Sean lurks here
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I can *use* imagemagick, but i'm also artistically challenged. What's the "crapness" issue? Maybe if we can see the bad we can help better?
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Not that I should have a vote (so I haven't) as the Smoothwall gang will inevitably turn up wherever (Yes Sean, even Shetland) you put it, but Bristol is a pleasant city with good links by road, rail and air, plus has fine venues.
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Blocking https sites with cachepilot
tom_newton replied to zag's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Are you sure https traffic is passing through the cachepilot? -
Top news! Great to see edugeek go from strength to strength...
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Other broadband options
tom_newton replied to Trapper's topic in Birmingham Grid for Learning (BGfL)
@Trapper: PM me your contact details and I will make sure Rob gets details out to you - there's no cost to attend the meeting, and you may even manage to wangle a free lucnh out of it?! -
Other broadband options
tom_newton replied to Trapper's topic in Birmingham Grid for Learning (BGfL)
Thanks Rob - just to add to that a bit, sometimes, when i've been good, I get let out of the office to attend these sort of things - and from a technical point of view they're usually pretty interesting. Yes, we get to stand at the front for 15 minutes and show off our kit, and sometimes ISPs like to join in and display their wires, but for me, the interesting bit is chatting to folk over a cup of steaming joe before and after the "main event". Gives a good insight into how people are taking different approaches to the whole connectivity issue. -
Squid/DansGuardian Windows 2008
tom_newton replied to WebbA's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Try a newer version of your samba packages (may need a new base OS). -
I'll get it checked out, thanks.
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I was under the impression that you couldn't buy Cambridge Audio amps _except_ in Richer Sounds? Try head office? Give gyp?
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I never bother with coffee before I am at work, and drink max 2 or 3 cups a day at weekends, so I tend to feel like my face is about to fall off about nowish, as it's 5+ cups/day here. We use Gourmet Coffee Roaster and Supplier of Fine Coffees - Fresh Roasted Beans, Green Coffee Beans as our supplier... "has bean" look interesting tho.
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Block youtube but allow specific channels?
tom_newton replied to pete's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
It's our new filtering engine, which is slowly creeping out the door - public betas due to start ASAP. It will come as parrt of the existing smoothwall lineup, but offers a lot more than the existing filter. For example, there's now full who/what/where/when filtering, so you can get as detailed as you need on policies which are completely re-orderable so you chose the importance of each rule. There's also the long awaited "multi group" function, allowing a user to be effectively filtered as a member of two groups. Add to that some performance increases, a new auth front-end with "auth-method by subnet", an easier to use GUI... should be FUN. -
Block youtube but allow specific channels?
tom_newton replied to pete's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Ben, I believe someone is looking at it. Sort of moot when we get G3 out mind, as that makes it a piece of cake -
[website] Online Game: Cheese Or Font?
tom_newton replied to 6Foot2's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
I managed to hang around 70% for a fair few, 40 or so answers, but I'm neither a cheese buff nor a font know-it-all. I'll try it on "club crayons" (aka marketing) on monday -
Block youtube but allow specific channels?
tom_newton replied to pete's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Fateh, Thios solution is specific to the Smoothwall web filter platform - though if you are using a different web filter, it may be possible to adapt it, in truth, few are flexible (our critics would say complicated..) enough -
Suggestions for web filtering solution
tom_newton replied to jayemm's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
I look forward to your call - Monday's actually the only day I am in this week, so if you don't get chance, call 0113 3874160 (main number) and ask for Rob F or Craig F. Sometimes when there's an LA between us and the end user, things get lost -not the La's fault, they're new to our game but I'd urge anyone who has any smoothwall issues they think aren't being solved for whatever reason to pick up the phone, and call me, or one of the chaps mentioned above. Whilst we aren't tech support types per-se, we all know where to find the right people for any issue, from price to support, anything. Also we have tea and biscuits for the terminally irritated
