10 point type is a little small for older eyes. Once in the dreaded '40's, the eyes don't like small type like they once did. People I work with like 12-point type. I agree with some others that 14 seems a little large, but they claim it takes up just about the same space as Courier 12.
No, I'm not kidding. DotSafe is providing ALL of the hardware at NO CHARGE to us. Thats for the filtering software, the storage, the e-mail and all of the hardware that goes with it. They will provide this at no charge to any school, as far as I understand it. And, its free for as long as we use it...no continuing fees.
Remember, though, they track every move by every user. I think they believe that kind of information is valuable.
It goes up around February 14, so we'll know then what it exactly involves.
Mark L.
The school district I work for (Columbus Ohio Public Schools) is in the process of installing a filter called DotSafe. It should be up in 2 weeks. It will require an individual name and password for each login, so it can track every place a user goes. They can deliver a list of every web site a user goes to in a given period of time. So, everything is tracked and logged.
They provide this to the system FREE. That is software AND hardware. They will also provide filtered e-mail and 25-meg of offline storage -- for over 70,000 users!
I have no comments on the system yet, as it has not been installed. But, it is out there, and I would expect more districts to pick up on this.
Anyone else know anything about DotSafe?
Mark Lensenmayer
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10 point type is a little small for older eyes. Once in the dreaded '40's, the eyes don't like small type like they once did. People I work with like 12-point type. I agree with some others that 14 seems a little large, but they claim it takes up just about the same space as Courier 12.
No, I'm not kidding. DotSafe is providing ALL of the hardware at NO CHARGE to us. Thats for the filtering software, the storage, the e-mail and all of the hardware that goes with it. They will provide this at no charge to any school, as far as I understand it. And, its free for as long as we use it...no continuing fees. Remember, though, they track every move by every user. I think they believe that kind of information is valuable. It goes up around February 14, so we'll know then what it exactly involves. Mark L.
The school district I work for (Columbus Ohio Public Schools) is in the process of installing a filter called DotSafe. It should be up in 2 weeks. It will require an individual name and password for each login, so it can track every place a user goes. They can deliver a list of every web site a user goes to in a given period of time. So, everything is tracked and logged. They provide this to the system FREE. That is software AND hardware. They will also provide filtered e-mail and 25-meg of offline storage -- for over 70,000 users! I have no comments on the system yet, as it has not been installed. But, it is out there, and I would expect more districts to pick up on this. Anyone else know anything about DotSafe? Mark Lensenmayer