Changing images on a page

[Anthony Starks]

A better way to control a public Internet browser, its settings and use
is NOT TO HOST IT ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER. If you connect a X terminal to
a UNIX server and run the browser from there, then not only can you
strictly control configuration, you can also scatter several terminals
and serve them from one machine. A PC running Linux could serve nicely
as your server.

This set up can be used to fix the home page, deny access to downloads,
etc. 

Also, since the X terminals don't have diskette drives you do not have
to worry about patrons booting their own software. 



> I'm forwarding this message for a colleague who doesn't subscribe to this
> list. One of the problems we have at our library is that we haven't locked
> down Netscape as tightly as we should. I thought maybe someone out there
> could provide some clues:
> 
> Hello,
> I run the Funding Information Center, a collection located within Memorial
> Library. Recently we have had a troublemaking patron who has taken to
> changing the Netscape settings on the pc in the Center. (The main problem
> with this pc is that it is
> located in a separate room that is not continually monitored by staff.) The
> latest problem is perplexing to me. I am used to the changed wallpaper and
> the changed "Home", but this time the evil patron acutally changed an icon
> on the Funding Information Center's Homepage. This individual replaced the
> Marquette Steeple logo icon at the bottom of the page to a flashing icon of
> skantily clad "babes" (leading, I presume, to a page of these pictures). I
> discovered this only by chance since I don't normally scroll all the way
> down the page when I boot up this pc and launch Netscape. I realize that
> this was not changed on the web server and that it was simply recalling
> this from the hard drive cache, but how did the patron change this and save
> it to the cache?? (In my panicked attempt to remove this from the page
> before another patron saw it, I deleted the cache and reloaded the page
> hoping that would get rid of it. But it has also made it difficult to track
> how exactly it was done.) One other thing to note - we do have some
> protection software on this pc - Winshield and Folderbolt. Thanks for any
> insight you can share on this!
> Kate McCready
> 
> Sheryl Dwinell
> Cataloger/Database Management Librarian
> Memorial Library, Marquette University
> P.O. Box 3141
> Milwaukee, WI 53201-3141
> dwinells at vms.csd.mu.edu
> 414-288-3542