OMFG!

Filled up my truck today. I drive a Dhakota (smaller truck for those non texans) I think I am going to have to take out a loan for gas soon. Or start rideing my bike to work. :) With money tight now, that hurt.

Suckage.

My New Computer.

Not in the mood to talk about anything. So I am just posting random crap that I find.

This is the next computer I want:

The chicken, the horse & the Harley

On the farm lived a chicken and a horse, both of whom loved to play together.

One day the two were playing, when the horse fell into a bog and began to sink.

Scared for his life, the horse whinnied for the chicken to go get the farmer for help!

Off the chicken ran, back to the farm.

Arriving at the farm, he searched and searched for the farmer, but to
no avail, for he had gone to town with the only tractor.

Running around, the chicken spied the farmer's new Harley.

Finding the keys in the ignition, the chicken sped off with a length of rope hoping he still had time to save his friend's life.

Back at the bog, the horse was surprised, but happy, to see the chicken arrive on the shiny Harley, and he managed to get ahold of the loop of rope the chicken tossed to him. After tying the other end to the rear bumper of the farmer's bike, the chicken then drove slowly forward
and, with the aid of the powerful bike, rescued the horse!

Happy and proud, the chicken rode the Harley back to the farmhouse, and the farmer was none the wiser when he returned.

The friendship between the two animals was cemented: Best Buddies, Best Pals.

A few weeks later, the chicken fell into a mud pit, and soon, he too, began to sink and cried out to the horse to save his life!

The horse thought a moment, walked over, and straddled the large puddle.

Looking underneath, he told the chicken to grab his hangy-down thing and he would then lift him out of the pit.

The chicken got a good grip, and the horse pulled him up and out, saving his life.

The moral of the story? (yep, there's a moral!)

"When You're Hung Like A Horse, You Don't Need A Harley To Pick Up Chicks!"

What I did today.

Well I dug this:

To put this in:

And make it all look like this.

And now I am sore. Lifting a 30 Gallon Palm tree is not recommended when you are alone. ;)

Child Safe Internet.

Well to do a follow up of my Kid Safe network that I first covered with email. Now I have to do a safe web browsing.

So here is the story. I installed a child safe proxy on her machine. It was put to the test last night. It failed.

I went to bed at 9pm. I was very tired and just could not think straight. (this is not strange) Bri went to her room to play/watch tv/ect. (This is not strange) So when I woke up and logged in this morning. I have an IM from her at 2:30 in the morning. "Daddy, Goodnight. Oh and my puter is acting funny" Needless to say. Knowing that she was in her room from 9 till 2:30 in the morning. I was not happy.

But At the same time. I felt safe knowing that I had a Kid Filter on. So I went up to her room to look at her computer. Spy Ware was all over it.  BIG time. And she had nifty new desktops and screen savers, as well as a Smilie generator. For those that have been hit by spy ware you know that is not a good sign. :)

So I downloaded MS Spybot and let it remove everything. Then I started thinking. Why was she able to get to those sites anyway.

So I pulled up some adult sites. First easy ones (Playboy.com penthouse.com) and then some harder ones. Turns out that the software that I chose (note I downloaded it because it was freeware) after 21 days just starts to warn. I tested the shit out of this software when I first installed it. I tried to get to some SKANKY pages and could not. Now those same pages... Pop up window that has a big cartoon bird on it saying "You should not look at this" Umm.. NO that is not an option.

So although my setup is different then most people's I am going to set up a proxy on my Linux machine that will only let her have access to domains that I will let her have, as well I want the Internet off at 10pm and then I want it to turn back on at 9am. (no web before school)

So, when the she got old enough to find an open SOCKS proxy and use it, I figure she is old enough to have porn. I mean I can not block her if she knows how to do that. And with out my help it would take a while for her to learn how. :) You catch my drift.

So since the only windows machines in my house is Her's and my Laptop. (That I don't always bring home.) It has to be done with one of my Linux machines. I have chosen Squid to do this. At first I thought that I was going to go into detail on how I did this (down to commands) but since I am the only person that I know that this would be useful for I chose not to. I can say that I downloaded squid, configured it. Set her machine to ONLY look at the squid machine to get to the Internet. And then I am going to start on my rules.

Which I will post when I get some time. :)