I didn't have a computer until I was in my teens, and then I knew that my ISP could see everything I visited. I'm not sure if anybody was actually sitting there watching the list of sites I was visiting scroll by, or checking the logs, but it *was* a small ISP.
There are packet sniffers and such that you could use to keep tabs on your children's Internet usage. Some of them even flash up images of what's loading in real time. If you make your kids aware that you can see everything they're doing on the Internet, that could be a good way of policing Internet usage. Plus, it would teach them to use encryption software for truly private communications:D
Now places like The Chip Merchant are charging $224 for a PC100 CAS2-latency 128MB SDRAM DIMM, and that's non-parity! Prices have jumped 30%, from around $170 a few days ago! And 512MB of PC150 (that's CAS2 latency @ 133MHz, or CAS3 latency at 150MHz) error-checking SDRAM will now cost over $1000 from STEP ThermoDynamics, at $270 per 128MB DIMM! And I can't wait until January next year to buy:( Maybe I'll buy some of it now, and the rest later. I wonder if speculation is also causing this price hike; maybe people are buying up tons of memory for some oddball reasons related to the millennium?
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I didn't have a computer until I was in my teens, and then I knew that my ISP could see everything I visited. I'm not sure if anybody was actually sitting there watching the list of sites I was visiting scroll by, or checking the logs, but it *was* a small ISP.
:D
There are packet sniffers and such that you could use to keep tabs on your children's Internet usage. Some of them even flash up images of what's loading in real time. If you make your kids aware that you can see everything they're doing on the Internet, that could be a good way of policing Internet usage. Plus, it would teach them to use encryption software for truly private communications
Now places like The Chip Merchant are charging $224 for a PC100 CAS2-latency 128MB SDRAM DIMM, and that's non-parity! Prices have jumped 30%, from around $170 a few days ago! And 512MB of PC150 (that's CAS2 latency @ 133MHz, or CAS3 latency at 150MHz) error-checking SDRAM will now cost over $1000 from STEP ThermoDynamics, at $270 per 128MB DIMM! And I can't wait until January next year to buy :( Maybe I'll buy some of it now, and the rest later. I wonder if speculation is also causing this price hike; maybe people are buying up tons of memory for some oddball reasons related to the millennium?