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Kevin Tunison wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Tom Potts > <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I've finally managed to corner my daughters primary school headmaster and he >> wants to look at setting up password accessed records for the kids+parents >> etc and I was under the impression that the schools network provided by the >> government should have at least some of the capabilities to do this. >> He says everytime he tries anything it says 'server not available' so it >> sounds like he's on the MS network alright! >> Is there anywhere I can find out what capabilities are on offer and how to get >> at them? >> Tom te tom te tom >> > > The first question to ask is whether or not they are on the Southwest > Grid For Learning (which is in fact RM in sheeps clothing, look at the > whois link below). If they are, then web-serving is a no-no. The > filter SWGFL puts in does its job well. My opinions about the entire > RM/GridForLearning are long and plenty that I won't go in to here... > >From my run-ins with it, it was at the time a Squid/DansGuardian > transparent proxy. A search on SWGFL squid confirms this. > > http://www.swgfl.org.uk/ (supposed charity) > > RM (the for profit education company) in disguise: > http://whois.domaintools.com/swgfl.org.uk > > Registrar: > RM Education PLC [Tag = RMPLC] > URL: http://www.rm.com > > > Also, you will find they now offer Merlin (so individual schools don't > have to?) if on their network... > > Lastly (I really apologize if I barked up the wrong assumption here > with 'the grid') the contact/support info: > > http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=lv&catcode=ss_lv_str_gov_03&rid=12119 > > > regards, > > KevinT > > sound very much like a man burned by the 'griddlepan' (aka SWGFL) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html