Whyyoublockmyinternets

Wes, I used to work for a Neverfail reseller...it's a nice idea and works out cheaper then hardware clustering but it's bit of a git to set up. IIRC it relies heavily on iSCSI for one...

I dunno, does she sell buttons and spend the other half of her day looking for retirement homes in Eastbourne?

Ahhh, ebay. Without it, our Librarian would be left with nothing to do. Which is why I blocked the .com and .co.uk revisions. So now she uses ebay.de all day instead. So far this week she's racked up 489 hits, of which 373 are unique hits to the 'bay. I do love passing this stuff on to SLT...ho hum!

Yes, the appliance sit's as a proxy on your network, linked it your OS of choice (AD for Winderz, LDAP for everything else) and then allows/denies access to sites based on a load of pre-set catagories. So, games set to "Off", and anything remotely game related get's blocked. They do so by reading meta tags, headers, and picking up on words in the pages of the site requested.

We are using PCE as well Sirbendy, looking forward to having something like Bloxx in. The amount of disruption caused by flash games and the like is unreal!

That's one way Mike, or you would need a proper content filter. We are looking at Bloxx here at the minute but for a lot of people that's going to be very expensive...

I use the rule of thumb between 8:30 and 2:40 - does the site have any educational purpose or value? If so, it's fine (some of the BBC stuff for example) It not, straight block.

+1 from me too. Works very well