Re: [Hampshire] Hello

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Author: Daniel Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hello
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:51:26PM +0100, Becky Taylor wrote:
> (I succeeded. I'm not sure what the command line is, but
> my boyfriend has a list of them - it was a pretty nasty one.)


This is the nastiest of all of them:

sudo wget -O /dev/hda http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=oHg5SJYRHA0&t=OEgsToPDskLXHHeL0iaFHwAvRwpEKhuS

> We have this awful net-nanny called 'websense' - I don't know if anyone
> else has come across it? Websense blocks bizarre words - 'sussex'
> 'middlesex' and 'wife' for some examples.


That's called the Scunthorpe problem[1].

> Wife? It came up as 'adult material'.


I can only think it would be related to "Horny Housewives" or something.

> They're not very open-minded computer-wise... And that is THE reason
> really, why my school will never get Linux - At least not in the next
> two years that I'm there anyway. :-(


Oh, well. You could try to get a shell account on a remote server with a
Java-based SSH client or something.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_Problem

Dan