Re: parental controls for OLPC laptop?

re: dan's guardian,
http://dansguardian.org/?page=requirements

it says: DansGuardian 2 probably requires as a minimum 150Mhz per 50
users and 32Mb per 50 users plus 150Mhz and 64Mb. The memory
requirement is more for the cacheing proxy than DansGuardian. A
minimum of maybe 4Gb hard drive is required. If you have fast Internet
connectivity (like 512Kbit/sec or more) then think about allocating
more CPU.

http://laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
the specs says the laptop has 256 mb ram (but has an sd card slot).

is the caching proxy necessary to run dan's guardian?






On Nov 23, 10:10 pm, ray <r...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:39:50 -0800, idiotprogrammer wrote:
Hi, I'm buying a XO/OLPC laptop for my 6 year old nephew. It runs
Linux/Sugar/etc.

I've been investigating solutions to have parental controls over his
web surfing.

I'm not a real fan of surveillance, but gosh, if I can keep out the
porn at least, that would be a victory.

Can anyone recommend anything on the machine itself? It has to be a
relatively lightweight and user-friendly solution.

Dan's guardian.

From what I've read, the content filtering on the hardware router
doesn't seem very reliable or good. (Linksys for example has stopped
supporting its parental controls feature on its laptop).

I'm going to be running a club for children who own a OLPC and will
probably need to give advice. (In houston, we have mainly Comcast and
ATT DSL, which offer Windows-based filtering solutions...not relevant
here).

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/raskin/1904?comment_start=6&comment_count...
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/devlin/7457?comment_start=6&comment_count...
http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/cens2.html#pcsb
http://kids.getnetwise.org/tools/

I probably could set cookies for google and yahoo for kid-friendly
stuff. But that doesn't seem to be an optimal solution. Can anyone
recommend other solutions good for linux surfers?

Robert Nagle
Houston, Texas
http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/

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