Hi...

Out of curiosity, what is that upstream point? A particular server? I'm guessing a part of your goal is to keep any kind ability to make settings adjustments (or file changes) away from your daughter's system. But if the file (or code) you mentioned (in your first post) is on her system, how do you keep her from making changes to it? Please bear with me, my understanding of networking is very poor. I'm mostly a hardware guy.

I have very little understanding of what's being said but I found some sites that deal with the relayd and layer 7, although they're not directly related to what you're doing...

http://bsd.plumbing/

http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniBe...er-for-openbsd

https://calomel.org/relayd.html

http://www.mouedine.net/relayd/

Regards...

Hey, my man!

Even though what you're describing is a bit "out of my league," it reminds me of the system I use as a public access station (running Windows XP) for the residents where I live.

I use K9 Web Protection and a Firefox add-on that I can't remember the name of to handle the content filtering on the PC, to keep out pornography and other undesirable content. I also use a utility to keep the desktop locked down pretty tight, plus I've disabled CMD, safe mode and the ability to "restore" the OS. All residents use the limited users account that has no administrative privileges.

Unfortunately, last summer, I had someone who wanted to access this kind of content so badly that he/she:

1. Tried to access/change my password for K9. I've since removed access to K9's administrative settings (which can only be accessed by using my password) in the residents account. I got a notice in my email that attempt had been made to change the password, which was blocked.

2. Reinstalled Firefox by accessing Firefox's safe mode. However, this ultimately failed since it didn't affect K9 or the restrictions I set. But I still had to spend some time getting all the individual settings back that I had in place.

3. Spent some time trying to find the loopholes around K9's restrictions, which they were able to find one that took me a little bit to figure how they were doing it. There's a setting in K9 that deals with blocking sites or sections of sites that exclusively contain only images (I forgot what the technical term is.) Once I checked the block to block those sites, problem solved.

By that time, the problem was resolved because I had a little talk with the person who was a suspect and all attempts to access the content ceased after that day.

For a while, though, it really felt like a "cat and mouse" game but one thing I gained from the experience was how to more effectively use content filters and what to look out for.

Regards...

Awesome stuff!

My Mom also feeds the families of Quail, Cotton Tail Rabbits, Road Runners, and Coyotes cruise through also. She has a veritable Noahs Ark going on in a Major Sub Division in a Major city like Phoenix Arizona.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/phoen...ity-grand.html

That is why I like living in the heat and the Wild West. During the day and after dark. Just park a chair and look out the back patio bay window on her back room sun porch.

There is a scheduled parade every day.

Edit: I forgot to mention. A tub of water in the back yard in the desert is like candy to local wild life. Even bees.

Only thing I was told about birds was by my younger brother who is a bird and cat person.

"They have a 4 year old mind set".

His cat and parrot are best friends. No strife with his pets.

In Sun City AZ. In my moms back yard.
A flock of parrots settle and feed because she feeds them. I guess they are former pets turned feral. They show up like pigeons.

http://www.damnedct.com/monk-parakeets

I guess she is not the only one that has feral parrots in a neighborhood.

Will the mix create eggs?

I had a cockatiel once. He was quite well-behaved and a lot of fun. We eventually gave him away to one of my now-ex-wife's co-workers who lived alone.

During that time I was at my local supermarket and met a fellow who had a cockatiel on his shoulder all pirate like. Turns out that, to keep it on his shoulder, he had clipped the wings (which do grow back, by the way).

I've been tempted from time-to-time to get another cockatiel, if only because it would drive the cats mad.

Yeah, I enjoy it more as a hobby than I did when it was work.

Obnoxious attitudes always come with the territory, because of my looks and lifestyle. Funniest thing is to see a a short mans disease mentality, trying to look down on me, while craning his neck to look up at me.

I seen some of that at a posh restaurant my youngest boy treated us to. He is a metro yuppie type. Does very well in life. Better than I. We blew their minds when the valet service pulled up in his cherry 1962 Cadillac
2 door lowrider. Probably making some assumptions go up in smoke.

I know all the young girls on a Friday night at the bar started gazing like they wanted to go for a ride with us. But we had my 2 year old grand daughter and my wife as dates already.

On your original post. I see a lot of human beings of this and earlier generation in certain environments
with a sense of entitlement. In a stressful situation or environment. They will be the 1st to fall by the way side with the "but what about me!!!!" mindset.

I withdrew from the world by raising my boys on the Mexican border and putting them in a school in the country in a small town instead of a inner city high school. I raised them to be independent and to self assured in their skill set as a human being. Nothing given freely with out effort given 1st.

Seems my system bore good fruit.

My boy used the same system when buying his house in Austin. Picking a neighborhood figuring in where his
daughter will go to school and how the neighborhood kids are also. I have no worries about my offspring surviving in the world to come. My grand daughter is part cossack and filipino. With blond hair.

She is gonna be a heart breaker. And we all know. Women run things though we guys like to think we do.

I've been doing quite a bit of soldering over the last couple of years. All through-hole stuff, mostly add-ons in kit form for my Raspberry Pis. I first learned how to solder as an apprentice (electrical) instrument maker, many decades ago. Bigger stuff then than now, but the same techniques apply. I haven't got a variable temperature soldering-station, just an Antec 25W iron.

Ingrates are fun to watch when blowing a fuse. At least for me.
Especially because I like to tease.

Might be moving to Austin (Hill country) later this year maybe.
Wetter there. Still hot but bohemian residents there.
Not border bandidos like I am used to. Out here in the desert.
Dead armadillos line the road outside of Austin though sometimes.


When my Dad was stationed in Wichita Kansas. The Indian gang I ran with in Oaklawn were not all that "civilized". But that was long ago. Kansas might have become more civilized since then.
I remember it was cold cold cold there in the winter there.

Something that is now my kryptonite.