"Good" in what terms? Good for the dog? The cat? You'll have to specify what you mean >by "good".

How much further can I break one word down? By saying good, it means everyone's own interpretation of there word coupled with their own experience.

Oh? You'd have to be more specific as to which parts are constantly requiring authentication. I'm sure it can be fixed.

"Lock down"? What do you mean by that? Hmm, let's see. There's no such

Internet explorer constantly prompts a logon box everytime you open it. If you look at censornet forums and try it out you'll see. Censornet/Adelix have stated they have no current release date for this to be fixed. Due to the need IE has for persistent connections I think. thing as "the"

desktop environment -- there's a whole plethora [1] of them.

Again, open to interpretation, im not asking for an English or IT lesson, I said it in that manner to get other peoples opinions based on their experience and preferences. If someone uses KDE, that’s their desktop environment so by saying "the" it personalises the sentence to the reader. Your again trying to pick on the way I have said something rather than respond in a informative way. How does these comments like this help me? They don’t.

Since we don't know which distro nor which desktop manager you'll be using, specific information will be sketchy at best.

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My main question is what Linux distro shall I go for and what caching and filtering solution will do what isa and surfcontrol do?

This was my main question, im asking for distro opinions based on everyone's personal experience, I don't know what distro to choose, that’s one reason why im posting. I appreciate that your response didn't just include snidey comments, but I will not accept people speaking to me in this way. Thank you for everyone else's replies. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.8 - Release Date: 10/05/2005

Chill out, if you write to a (semi) public list you'll have to accept that not everyone has your own high standards of etiquette, we all know that Thomas resides a good way up his own dark orifice; for a giveaway just look at his footer :-) ( sorry Thomas, but you know it's true :) We've all experienced his pen, but he does have a great deal of experience and knowledge. He's not going to change, so just read around it and suck out the good bits! :-)

Fair enough. I know I do have high standards. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.8 - Release Date: 10/05/2005

Alan Loughlin wrote:

Internet explorer constantly prompts a logon box everytime you open it. If you look at censornet forums and try it out you'll see. Censornet/Adelix have stated they have no current release date for this to be fixed. Due to the need IE has for persistent connections I think.

Absolutely. IE can't pass session data from one instance to another. So if you open up one IE window and authenticate against CensorNet (and indeed Squid) and then open up another, the data has to be entered again. This is, if anything, a bug in IE, not Dan's Guardian / Squid / CensorNet. It'd be down to MS to fix that. The work around is to use NTLM authentication which, as you say, is not currently available in CensorNet. This would transparently use the authentication detailed entered by the user at logon to authenticate against the proxy server. So IE still needs that authentication to happen for each session, it's just that it happens transparently. There isn't a schedule for inclusion of the NTLM auth feature, mainly due to Adelix being really busy at the moment. The estimated costs are about £3k to integrate the feature including the necessary configuration changes and reprogramming the web interface / set up program if you wanted to think about comissioning the work from them.* HTH, Tony * No, I don't work for Adelix either. But I do use CensorNet.