[dba-Tech] Child's play

Andy Lacey andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Tue Sep 28 16:02:01 CDT 2004


Sorry Francisco but this is a friend asking me about software. It's not me
or my PC, and she's not asking for general guidance. That's for her to
decide. She's specifically asking me for advice on available software for
things like content-filtering.

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> Francisco Tapia
> Sent: 28 September 2004 21:12
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Child's play
> 
> 
> Password your PC.
> 
> I lock my pc (win2k) and my 8 yr old is allowed to only use 
> it when I have time to supervise him.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:51:12 +0100, Andy Lacey 
> <andy at minstersystems.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi folks
> > 
> > A colleague found her 9 year-old daughter Googling a rude word the 
> > other day. Not such a prob but it got her thinking about protecting 
> > her child from accessing porn sites, getting rude popups and so on. 
> > And then there are chatrooms. God, a whole nasty world of 
> stuff that I 
> > never worried about cos the PC in our house is very public 
> and anyway 
> > mine were much older by the time they came to use it. Anyway, does 
> > anyone with kids have any products (preferably free or dead cheap) 
> > they can recommend for this kind of issue.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > -- Andy Lacey
> > http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
> > 
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> -Francisco
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