I did something like this but it's based on time and not on traffic.
Create a simple tcp server using sockets in python that let's you login and a client to go with it:
a. Initially, the python server disables all the users in the squid acl.
b. When you login using the client, the server authenticates you and checks in a text file to see whether you are there and how much time you have left, based on which it enables-disables your accesss by changing the squid ACL.
c. It can run every few minutes to check all the logged-in users.
I did this for a neighbouring net-cafe for free. One big problem was that net-access was possible only through squid which can't be used to handle voice-chats and web-cams etc that doesn't go through http. I could do that but was no more willing to do it for free...
>When a news story concerning **AA, specifically how it is going to sue people who download songs from the internet
How many times does this have to be said... they are not suing those who download but those who share:P
You can treat and exchange server as a normal IMAP, POP OR SMTP server unless it uses microsoft proprietary authentication... Which luckily ours doesn't.
I've heard that tb 0.6 supports SPA (aka NTLM) for POP/IMAP/SMTP so i guess the only problem that remains is to import your data from outlook which works well but needs a bit of tweaking...
But the effort is nothing compared to the rewards:)
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Exactly! It's a pity i don't have mod points...
I did something like this but it's based on time and not on traffic.
Create a simple tcp server using sockets in python that let's you login and a client to go with it:
a. Initially, the python server disables all the users in the squid acl.
b. When you login using the client, the server authenticates you and checks in a text file to see whether you are there and how much time you have left, based on which it enables-disables your accesss by changing the squid ACL.
c. It can run every few minutes to check all the logged-in users.
I did this for a neighbouring net-cafe for free. One big problem was that net-access was possible only through squid which can't be used to handle voice-chats and web-cams etc that doesn't go through http. I could do that but was no more willing to do it for free...
what they are going to open up? If not, why such a fuss over just an anouncement?
>When a news story concerning **AA, specifically how it is going to sue people who download songs from the internet How many times does this have to be said... they are not suing those who download but those who share :P
You can treat and exchange server as a normal IMAP, POP OR SMTP server unless it uses microsoft proprietary authentication... Which luckily ours doesn't. I've heard that tb 0.6 supports SPA (aka NTLM) for POP/IMAP/SMTP so i guess the only problem that remains is to import your data from outlook which works well but needs a bit of tweaking... But the effort is nothing compared to the rewards :)
"I use the Mozilla package at home and Firefox at work (since I have to use Outlook here)."
Why don't you replace Outlook with thunderbird? I have done so at my office, even though they are running exchange **horror**