In order to receive Federal E-Rate discounts, public schools are required to have filtering mechanisms in place that meet the standards set by the Children's Internet Protection Act.
I've administered K12 networks with internet access for over 15 years (both pre-CIPA, and post CIPA)... I personally preferred not having to filter and teaching personal responsibility, especially with high school students. Usually a couple times a semester a student would make a bad choice, and would be made an example of.... which would usually keep the rest of the students on the straight and narrow.
But for now, CIPA is the law of the land, so if you want free choice and thinking on your school's internet connection, contact your senator and congressman, because local admins really have no choice in this matter.
hrmm.. I haven't removed delimeat from an SE but I have pulled the better part of a peanutbutter & jelly sandwich from the CD-ROM drive of a PowerMac LC-575...
"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."
I'd just managed to convince myself Blizzard was no longer evil, and that I could look forward to purchasing W.o.W. and now slashdot's gone and reminded me that they're still evil.......
This will be yet another good test for the opensource concept. As sun ends support for these devices, will someone else pick up the ball (be it in a commercial sense, or a free sense) and continue providing updates (at least security updates....) for these now orphaned linux-based products?
yes this is why on the school network that I admin I take a bit more zealous approach to blocking aim.... blocking all trafic to login.oscar.aol.com, toc.oscar.aol.com, in addition to blocking all non-port 80 (both tcp/udp) traffic to 205.188.0.0/16...... yes I know a determined user can still ssh/telnet to an external box, or setup some type of proxy, but those numbers should be negligible...
1 Fulltime Employee (me(doing my best to fix things))
1 Fulltime student aid (Help desk)
1 Part-Time student aid (doing his best to fix things)
2 T-1's
1 Frame Relay
3 DSL Connections
14 Sites
27 Servers
500 Desktops
5000 Student-Users (doing their best to break things)
200 Staff-Users (doing their best to break things)
"Luckily" in public education, we never had enough IT Support staff... so our ratio really hasn't gotten any worse....
I'd highly reccomend you look over at the linux k12 project @ http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/
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I counter that Windows sucks because it doesn't work with iPod....
but for an even more clever hack, how about turning your Apple Newton into an iPod: Here's
the site
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In order to receive Federal E-Rate discounts, public schools are required to have filtering mechanisms in place that meet the standards set by the Children's Internet Protection Act.
I've administered K12 networks with internet access for over 15 years (both pre-CIPA, and post CIPA)... I personally preferred not having to filter and teaching personal responsibility, especially with high school students. Usually a couple times a semester a student would make a bad choice, and would be made an example of.... which would usually keep the rest of the students on the straight and narrow.
But for now, CIPA is the law of the land, so if you want free choice and thinking on your school's internet connection, contact your senator and congressman, because local admins really have no choice in this matter.
hrmm.. I haven't removed delimeat from an SE but I have pulled the better part of a peanutbutter & jelly sandwich from the CD-ROM drive of a PowerMac LC-575...
"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."
I'd just managed to convince myself Blizzard was no longer evil, and that I could look forward to purchasing W.o.W. and now slashdot's gone and reminded me that they're still evil.......
This will be yet another good test for the opensource concept. As sun ends support for these devices, will someone else pick up the ball (be it in a commercial sense, or a free sense) and continue providing updates (at least security updates....) for these now orphaned linux-based products?
I don't need to backup, it has a RAID.
Doh!
I block MSMessenger without any problems with the following rules:
ipchains -A input -p TCP -b --sport 1863 -j DENY
ipchains -A input -b -d 64.4.13.0/24 -j DENY
now the extremely persistant Yahoo IM is something I still haven't nailed down yet.....
you think it's a bad day for viewing slashdot.... you should try moderating it..... *sigh*
yes this is why on the school network that I admin I take a bit more zealous approach to blocking aim.... blocking all trafic to login.oscar.aol.com, toc.oscar.aol.com, in addition to blocking all non-port 80 (both tcp/udp) traffic to 205.188.0.0/16...... yes I know a determined user can still ssh/telnet to an external box, or setup some type of proxy, but those numbers should be negligible...
1 Fulltime Employee (me(doing my best to fix things)) 1 Fulltime student aid (Help desk) 1 Part-Time student aid (doing his best to fix things) 2 T-1's 1 Frame Relay 3 DSL Connections 14 Sites 27 Servers 500 Desktops 5000 Student-Users (doing their best to break things) 200 Staff-Users (doing their best to break things) "Luckily" in public education, we never had enough IT Support staff... so our ratio really hasn't gotten any worse....
As if the creationists aren't upset enough about the prospect of us decending from monkey's....
I'd highly reccomend you look over at the linux k12 project @ http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/
I counter that Windows sucks because it doesn't work with iPod.... but for an even more clever hack, how about turning your Apple Newton into an iPod: Here's the site