Ah, OK... this is a use case I hadn't thought of... my little one is not at typing age yet. But soon! On 1/12/2011 6:52 AM, Bucci, David G wrote: > Another use case on a PC is as part of a parental filter type package. E.g., I use DansGuardian + Squid + Firehol on our Ubuntu boxes at home, having teenage kids. > > -----Original Message----- > From: K K [mailto:kkadow@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 11:35 AM > To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Squid for personal use... > > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Helmut Hullen <Hullen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Is there any advantage of using squid on a personal computer? I can >>> see that in a household, running squid on a central server could be >>> beneficial. What if there was only one machine in the home? >> It's a kind of big cache, too. You can choose which program caches - the >> browser(s) or squid. > If there's only one machine in the home, and you only use Firefox, you > would NOT see a lot of advantage from using Squid as compared to > letting Firefox directly use the same amount of cache space. Sure, > you can use the advanced features of Squid to control what gets cached > or rewrite headers, but for the latter, there are extensions to get > the same benefit. If you have multiple clients (or maybe multiple > browsers on one machine), or have a central fileserver with lots of > spare disk space, Squid starts to make more sense. For example, I > have multiple machines on a 1GB network, so on each client I set a > tiny disk cache, and let Squid cache it all centrally instead. > > > There is one other reason to use Squid in a small household network -- > if you pass all home->Internet traffic through a firewall running > something Unix-like, use transparent redirection to route all > household traffic through squid for caching and logging. Now you can > see/cache some traffic from background programs on your PC, Boxee, > your smart BlueRay player, or your iPad or other WiFi tablet, and also > generate accounting reports (e.g. with Calamaris). > > Many household devices have embedded browsers or pull content from the > Internet, but have minimal embedded caching. If you can use Squid to > cache, for example, the cover art for Netflix movies, you might speed > up browsing Netflix instant queue from Boxee? > http://forums.boxee.tv/archive/index.php/t-22038.html > > > Kevin > >
