Given that it's Imperial College and they're going to be teaching by hologram... I wonder if this ( http://www.oocities.org/~speci... ) might be one of the professors.

Hilarious. Nicely done sir. I can't believe your attempt at levity was modded as Interesting instead of Funny.

President Skroob: 1-2-3-4-5?
Colonel Sandurz: Yes!
President Skroob: That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.

It sounds like your client may have a hard time dealing with something like Wireshark or any of the other port/traffic monitoring methods I've seen mentioned. I'll suggest looking at OpenDNS as a way to give some protection against "unsavory" sites as well as some degree of reporting in their "Stats" section.

It has nothing to do with my beliefs. Here's why I do it: 1) I like having a job. 2) Part of my job is making sure we comply with CIPA http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cipa.html 3) CIPA says we have to filter "obscene pictures" You, Janet Jackson and I may think breasts are not obscene, but I know there are people who do.

I have to say that this is really nice. I just added explicit.bing.net to the list of filtered content in our SonicWall and then did an images search for breasts on bing.com with safe-search off and the images that displayed were not what I would consider porn. Many of the images, if not most, were not displayed. I will feel much better about allowing access to bing.com for our students now. Can't believe I'm saying this...but "Good job, Microsoft!"

Even though I've never used it, I can say that from years of reading the K12LTSP listserve, BackupPC has always been mentioned as a good way to backup multiple machines. It supports Windows and Linux and you can browse the archives via a web browser.