User: CucKo0

Re:Direcway

On: Temporary Wireless Service For An Outdoors Event?

rain is your enemy when you are camping anyways :)

Re:keep it anonymous and private.

On: Privacy in the Woods?

I guess this means no more wondering off the train for a few hours "romp" in the woods. You might end up with search and rescue watching ya ;)

Re:Educational Software

On: Ask About Running Windows Software in Linux

I work for an educational facility and would have to agree that the educational apps seem to be ignored.

My personal opion is that we should be hounding the makers of the educational software to look at cross platform type of development like flash and java instead of filemaker pro and visual basic applications

Monitoring your children

On: Ethically Monitoring Your Kid's Net Access

I personally have to kids that I allow full surfing or the net. My oldest is 13 (male) and the youngest is 9 (female). I have had an indepth talk with both of these kids explaining to them that there is all kinds of infomation available on the internet and that sometimes there will be things that they find that might be offending. But i explained to them that this is the same in the real world to that there are things that you will find offending in life so deal with it . If you dont like then continue on with what you were after in the first place.

As for monitoring them I run a squid Proxy server that I proxy all my machines in the house through so that I have the ability to do some greps looking for keywords.

All in all I think that the best way to montior your kids is to have a great relationship with them so that you don't have to worry about them getting into things that might be offending. Build a trust with them and let them know that you won't get them into trouble for being courious. That your there to help them and to explain (to the best of your ability) questions that they might have..

Just my 2 cents worth

kdat

On: Ask Slashdot: >2GB Backup Software for Linux?

oops forgot to mention that kdat uses "tar" which is good if you have multiple servers incase you need to untar it on any unix box :)

(did i mention that it has a nifty gui front end :)

2gig backup

On: Ask Slashdot: >2GB Backup Software for Linux?

im currently doing a 8+gig backup using kdat from kde and it works well (no compression tho)

we had some trouble with backing up to another server via nfs mount that would only allow me to do a 2 gig max file :(

if i use the tar with compression i can get up to 24 gig backup to tape (12 gig without compression)

but kdat allows you to span tapes and keeps a nice little index of all previous files backed up on that tape (very nice gui app)

not sure if that will help but it's all i got rite now :)