* Ed Harrison (ed.tman@verizon.net) [030528 19:49]:
In cmos, I have disabled booting from cd and floppy.
What happens when you cycle the power by unplugging the battery on the motherboard?
I don't know anything about proxies, except I use privoxy on my machine. What kind of proxy are you referring to?
It could be any sort of open http proxy. If spammers can find them there's no reason the kids couldn't.
For the time being I have added sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 to each $HOME/.bashrc per the suggestion from Basil Fowler, but how long will it take them to learn enough linux to know they can edit that file without root permission?
You can always chown the .bashrc files to root.root. Of course, it's probably much easier to just go to a friend's house and use their computer. -- -ckm