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This is very useful if you want to block internet access to your kids or particular users. First you need to edit the network interfaces file using the following comamnd
SafeSquid - Content Filtering Internet Proxy, has many content filtering features that can be used to decide who is allowed what, when and how much on the net. In this tutorial I will describe how to create user profiles, and give them access to specific websites only, while blocking access to all other websites.
The Orange Liveradio gives you access to 4000+ worldwide internet stations and in addition to a wide range of podcasts and audio books. The great thing about Orange Liveradio is that no PC is required when you are listening to your internet radio stations. All you need is a Wi-Fi router and broadband internet access.
On Wednesday German public TV broadcaster NDR launched a pilot service offering free internet access to selected TV news and satire content, apparently under a "no derivatives" Creative Commons license.
Content-filtering proxies restrict Internet access privileges for users or groups across an entire network. They must be able to block unwanted content through keyword, URL, DNS, MIME, and image filtering.
Designed to give residents and visitors twice-daily red tide updates for local beaches, the reporting system uses Google Maps as its user interface, making access to a computer and the Internet mandatory. While initial comments were enthusiastic, Mote researchers heard concerns about access from a vocal group of people who didn't own a computer or have Internet access.
Public WiFi access abounds. 'Free WiFi', 'Internet Hot-Spot' and other slogans offer tempting but 'naked' internet access. This tutorial will show you how to use two freely available open source applications - Mozilla Firefox ('Firefox') and OpenSSH ('SSH') - to make your wireless more secure.....
Shortly after switching all of its 13,000 public internet information workstations from Windows NT to Linux, the Federal Employment Office (BA) issued an interim report. According to an announcement by Klaus Vitt, CIO for the BA, the switch to open source software will, "allow the BA to react with flexibility to new technological developments. In the future, a broad range of software will be available to the BA that it can use to access various internet media, and to ensure optimal internet communication for its clients."
"As part of my campaign for social change, I have slowly been getting involved in different types of activism in the recent past, Free Software being one of them. Being a technologist, I have been trying to use Internet as the medium to promote the causes that I have been standing for.