[K12OSN] off topic - firefox history files

[Rob Owens]

Censornet can do a lot of what you describe, if I
remember correctly.

-Rob

--- Jon Spriggs <jon at spriggs.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Will,
> 
> I'm afraid I can't answer your immediate question,
> but you could
> consider using a proxy service which logs where
> people have gone to.
> While that doesn't solve the problem for "right
> now", it will solve
> the problem for "tomorrow".
> 
> Infact, you're probably better off doing it this
> way, anyway, as you
> can start doing things like blacklisting certain
> sites and marking
> them with custom warning messages (such as "You got
> caught. Don't do
> it again!"). Also, with regular reviews of where
> people are visiting,
> you can either set up another proxy server to take
> the "recommended
> website traffic" such as Google, encarta, your local
> administration
> offices, etc. and a lower bandwidth link to take the
> non-approved
> sites (such as hotmail, myspace, etc.) meaning that
> your high
> bandwidth link is used for what your organisation is
> actually supposed
> to be providing, and then whatever's left can go to
> the other sites.
> 
> Perhaps a regular review of what's going through the
> lower capacity
> proxy will turn up some useful sites that can then
> be moved onto the
> primary proxy?
> 
> And before you ask... I wouldn't have the first clue
> about how to
> actually put that into practice!!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jon
> 
> On 11/10/06, fhkms at adelphia.net <fhkms at adelphia.net>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In a routine audit of the students internet
> history (firefox on the latest k12ltsp), I found
> some questionable stuff.  Now the administration is
> asking me questions that I can's seem to answer,
> namely, the date the student viewed the stuff, and
> time of day.  When I open up the history sidebar,
> and search by date, it alphabatizes the history in
> the "search by date" mode, but doesn't tell me the
> date or time.  Is there an easy way to do this? 
> Thanks!
> >
> > Will
> >
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