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I'd say OpenDNS is easiest. We do do a free filter (dansguardian is part of the SmoothWall family) but it is not suited to home use, unless you are a bit mental

Yeah - there's tons of bloggy-hosts referenced in the site - which will be a problem as many filter users block the world of blogs, as the SNR is atrocious.

July 6th: Lynch Jobs Day?

Chris - more like autumn half term. Certainly a bit too late to get it in and tested for mid september I would have thought

Would be interesting to see a log excerpt for the iPad's attempts to access youtube. May be getting blocked for other reasons.

Yeah, you need transparent ticked to do NTLM in multiport auth, but that will change soon, when we don't have to do different auth types in different places. Thinking about #2. I now realise why it does this - it is an artefact of how transparent NTLM login works - it needs to slip in a page redirect, which it can't in HTTPS, so if your last request was HTTPS, then you'd already be eating in to your cached login time. Opening another (HTTP) page during your form filling should help. Turning on HTTPS interception might cause a re-auth when they submit the form, and so solve the problem entirely, but I don't know for sure. They're both the same issue. Why it took me so long to work this out I will never know (And this issue WILL be fixed for non-transparent NTLM users who wish to do multi-port in the next guardian release, as "normal" NTLM re-auths with the proxy on both HTTPS and HTTP connections)

Just thought i'd put my beak in see if I fancied any of your lenses - but can't justify it Think 400 notes is a bargain for that lot though TBH.

Chris - sorry for not getting back to you - Denver has really knocked me for 6. Still catching up with emails and stuff. Try RF's suggestion, and i'll try and fit in a word with a few people about it, see what I can find over the next few days.

The beer is... OK. Too cold & fizzy (and that's just the ales).

At this stage I need to point out that I was fed "Chicken biscuits" for breakfast by one of my esteemed colleagues - this involved aforementioned chunk of fried (battered) chicken, a slice of "eggy stuff" and some "cheese" between two dumpling-consistency things. Interesting. Think it may have constituted a crime against humanity

Junior Developer The guys in Southampton are now looking for a junior developer. Even if you don't quite fit the bill - let me know and i'll pass your CV on. There's a lot going on in all 3 offices - so anyone who is interested in working for us in: Leeds, UK Southampton, UK or Charlotte, NC, US fire me your CV whatever your skills. Cheers, Tom

Whiskey in the jar doesn't count IMO, as it is a "traditional" Irish song, so they're all covers. I like Alabama 3's cover version of "Hotel California" - but I don't think it makes "better". Also worth pointing out "The tide is high" which was a cover when Blondie did it, and was more recently heavily abused by some girl band - but hte original was actually sung by a male group. See also: The Best Cover Songs - The Covers Project

@Ash; Please drop me a line if you want to discuss licencing - unfortunately we haver to continue to pay our developers, but I can assure our users that the proportion of monies going back into development of new software (which existing customers get as part of the package) is vastly higher than the majority of software companies. We strive to keep our prices as fair as possible - but welcome feedback on how we're doing.

How much time do you and your team spend chasing down proxies each day? Thats usually a good one to start!

Glad it is sorted - have been 'geekless for a few days - still in the US and travelling hither & yon.

#1 can probably only be solved by turning on HTTPS MITM. #2 sounds bug-ish. ) Do fire me an email about this and i will take it up with Dev when i am not in denver, or half-cut (I am both, presently!)

What exactly are you looking to reset? (pole sana for the delayed response - I'm in Denver, and my usual cover for Edugeek lurkage is in the middle of a moving of house)

Also those nice guys at SmoothWall keep punting people in Chris's direction My new claim - "Edugeek is like having the smartest techie in the world on speed dial" - and yes, you may quote me on that

I'm just waiting for Claire to pick me up on the way to Manc Airport. See you in 18 hours or so Chris & Shaun!

Bye Sue @john; - yes - we're still going to have a bit of Sue's time while she's in nepal, to write some of her trademark quality copy! She has promised to come back and visit too.

Is it just ping, what about if the mac user tries to access the web interface? Have you tried different NIC for the Smoothie? Maybe there's something funny there.

Or.... this may work... sign up to gmail, and then reg your domain email address with gmail, then use their smtp servers?

Use an upstream, authenticated smarthost. Generally sending mail from any IP block belonging to an ISP's consumer ranges is likely to result in being banned somewhere.

Bah. Had to make this "clever" didn't I This will go direct for: plain hosts (eg one word hosts like http://vle) 10.xx.xx.xx IPs 192.168.xx.xx IPs anything ending bgfl.eu or bgfl.org you can add new "endings" by adding another "push" line Not tested in the wild, just with google's pactester. function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (isPlainHostName(host)) return "DIRECT"; if (isInNet(host,"192.168.0.0","255.255.0.0")) return "DIRECT"; if (isInNet(host,"10.0.0.0","255.0.0.0")) return "DIRECT"; var endings = new Array(); endings.push(".bgfl.org"); endings.push(".bgfl.eu"); var t; for (t in endings) { if (host.match(endings[t] + "$")) return "DIRECT"; } return "PROXY eduproxy.bgfl.org:80"; }

Short answer: Yes