Archive for August, 2008


My crazy dog

Video of Murphy, my 9 month old Boxer, chasing a flashlight:
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Create a “whitelist” content filtering proxy for Firefox

When my kids use the internet, I set up Firefox so that they can only access a list of approved sites. Here’s how I do it (thanks to DrBacchus and skippy for the assist):
Install squid (Squid is a caching proxy for the Web):
$ sudo apt-get install squid
Modify squid.conf:
$ sudo vi /etc/squid/squid.conf
Set “visible_hostname” to the [...]

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