Security improvements with password authentication. Additional support for client computers with only remote settings and no local configuration.

if2k-client and if2k-server msi packages released for windows, to allow for deployment on large numbers of clients without installing the configuration tools. email tech@internetfilter.com for more info.

! What’s new in 2.2.7:

if2k now supports accessing to the internet via an authenticating proxy server with “Basic Authentication”.

Also, a preliminary version of if2k-server for windows is available for testing. Please contact tech@internetfilter.com for information.

Download it for mac osx and windows at:

http://www.internetfilter.com/w/downloads

If2k V2.2.2 has been released for Windows and Mac OSX.

Besides minor bug fixes, this version supports all the WebDAV protocols used in Microsoft Outlook and SVN and Mac OS X iDisk.

The windows version fixes the customized block page settings problem.

To download the mac os x version (both Tiger and Leopard): If2k-osx-tiger-v2.2.2.zip

To download the windows if2k-library version: if2k-library-2.2.2-win32.msi

The Kit 100

Many years ago in 1990, Bob Turner and I, Jeff Koftinoff, were working on alternative MIDI input devices at Simon Fraser University specifically for high level quadriplegics.

During our work at S.F.U., we came across a video for MIT Medialab's "The Digital Baton". In the video that we were shown, one person "conducted" a MIDI sequence playing on a computer with a large baton, while another person played along with a violin.

One of the projects that we designed at S.F.U. was called the "Kit-100", which was a small pressure sensitive touch pad which controlled any MIDI instrument. Bob Turner and I decided that we needed to make a video in response to MIT's. However, in our video, I would control the electronic pad with a tiny Q-tip instead of a large baton, and Bob would play a large bass violin instead of a tiny violin. Instead of a MIDI sequence, we would play improvised music.

Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes in with with an essay that starts “On March 22nd, District Court Judge Lowell Reed ruled that the Child Online Protection Act was unconstitutional, partly because the judge called it “vague and overbroad”, and partly because less restrictive means existed, such as Internet blocking software. I’ll leave others to comment on the legal issues, but blocking software is something that I’ve studied, and it’s important to make sure this decision is not seen as some kind of vindication for the “censorware” industry.” Tap that link below to read the rest of his story.

check out former porn actress who is now a christian campaigning against porn: http://www.myspace.com/shelleylubben

Dirty Little Secret - Men aren’t the only ones lured by Internet porn. A revealing look at the shameful addictions of a rising number of Christian women. by Ramona Richards

34 %. That’s how many readers of Today’s Christian Woman’s online newsletter admitted to intentionally accessing Internet porn in a recent poll. While many women wrote in to explain they’d accessed these sites to better understand what was luring their husbands time and again, it was the other e-mails—from Christian women who shared about their own Internet porn addiction—that caught our attention. Apparently online sex addiction isn’t just a male problem anymore. Read on for startling statistics about this new phenomenon, personal insights from those who are hooked, information about pioneering ministries reaching out to these addicts, and hope that exists in the face of this disturbing trend.

Read Jeff Koftinoffs, author of one of the first internet filters comment http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/1424223

Begopa sends in word that a federal judge has struck down the Child Online Protection Act. The judge said that parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit others’ rights to free speech. This was the case for which the US Department of Justice subpoenaed several search companies for search records; only Google fought the order. The case has already been to the Supreme Court. Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr. wrote in his decision: “Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection.”

As predicted here…no surprise.

MONTREAL – Live video software provider 2Much.net expressed “dismay and disappointment” at the decision by Canadian cellular provider Telus to drop adult content.

Telus would have been the first North American mobile service to offer adult content in the form of images and short video clips.

http://xbiz.com/pressrelease_piece.php?id=19783

Bennet sends out this story pasted below in increments below about a school board not allowing Al Gores “An Inconvenient Truth” to be shown because of a single complaint from the Creationist thrust. This has made me think of the twelve years I have known Bennet, not personally but through intermittent correspondence and a limited exchange. Bennet probably doesn’t know how much he has contributed to our project so I am writing this to tell him now.

Bennet is a founder of Peacefire an early investigative and advocative force describing the nature of the “evils ” of Internet

Hard to see how this is going to be a big success.