My web wanderings

Linux Web Filtering with DansGuardian and ClamAV


12 Aug 2004: A web filter is software that can filter the type of content a Web browser
displays. The filter checks the content of a Web page against a set of rules
and replaces any unwanted content with an alternative Web page, usually an “Access
Denied” page. The type of content to be filtered is usually controlled
by a systems administrator. Web filters are used in schools, libraries, homes,
and companies to safeguard personnel from obscene content on the Internet.

1.   Learn the basics of all Microsoft products’ keyboard shortcuts.
2.   Become expert in Visual Studio .NET keyboard shortcuts.
3.   Serve some speed with SQL Server shortcuts.
4.   Mozilla browsers go here, IE browsers go here and select your IE version.
5.   Do you use Google? Of course you do. Check out Google Labs’ experimental Keyboard Shortcuts searching.

I consider myself a power internet user. I typically have at least four browser windows open and the nature of my job dictates that I be able to diagnose issues with web servers as fast as possible. So in that persuit I have tried just about every web browser on the MS and Linux platform. And while there are some outstanding browsers out there I have come to love Mozilla Firebird. It is by far one of the best availible on either platform. With so many powerful addons it can really help in diagnoses and hacking around websites. Below are a the Extensions I use on all my PC’s

Here is the list I currently have installed.

GNU utilities for Win32

I saw SQLspy on Mike Gunderloy’s blog today. It looks like a good quick and dirty tool to monitor MSSQL. HybridX has some other intresting tools on his site including Addon’s to SQLspy and SQLinsider.

Which brings me to another point, why must some web developers feel the need to restrict the ability to right click just to “prevent” someone stealing their images. Anyone with half a brain will realize the image is in their browser cache or can use an alternative browser such as Opera or my favorite MozillaFirebird. Are you still stuck in IE with no tabs and advanced features. You might as well be using AOL then.

Sorry for the rant.

Cerberus Helpdesk - We use cerburus at work and have been pretty happy with it.

RT: Request Tracker - I am still looking into RT since I have found some intresting features for it.

The one and the only RRDtool

• Cacti is one of the prettier network monitoring and graphing tools - plus it runs on MS
• Oh here is a gallery of RRDTool uses.  This is an intresting one that tracks tickets in RequestTracker.
• Here is an advanced implementation at Library consortium
• I know Jason hopes that one day we will monitor our servers this well
• Last but not least here are some frontends for RRDtool