A platform for this has existed almost as long as the web itself. PICS is a W3C standard for labeling content. There is a working draft out for an RDF-based version of PICS called POWDER.
PICS ratings are assigned by the IRCA, now part of The Family Online Safety Institute.
The problems with PICS adoption were predictable. First, like with the V-Chip, few parents enabled content filtering on their browsers, or even knew that feature was available. Second, the honest content providers, the ones who got their sites labeled for language, violence, or adult situations, got screwed because of all the sites out there who didn't opt into the system, and which could be viewed by everyone.
Well, just to counter that, I've spent cash out of my own pocket for ObjectDock and TopDesk so I can have the equivalents of the Dock and Espose on my Windows machine at work. It makes life a little more bearable.
My boss would like to get us all Macs, but there isn't enough room in the budget.
Just curious -- was your problem that the command line utils were "out of date", or just different?
OSX uses BSD's command line utils, and BSD's utils are different from GNU's. You'll find different command-line switches here & there, and the output of top will throw you for a loop.
Agreed.
For comparison, I offer the trailer for Star Trek: First Contact, which has lots of fight-the-Borg action, and only a brief appearance by Zefram Cochrane.
If you don't have time to do it right, where are you going to find the time to do it over?
