>>Currently I employ very draconian safety: sneaker net only for the kid's machines (usually something gets copied to those machines) and Internet only with a grown up watching and on a specific net-connected machine running knoppix. But that will change in the next years - so I am thinking of splitting off at least one secure subnet and/or employing virtual linux machines for browsing. Would be interested in your final layout and reasoning (and the ways to cope others have taken in similar position: Tracy, Al, Dragan, Jos - anybody else ?)
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>OK, here's my layout:
>one D-link DL-604 router, with firmware updated to 2006
>one Linksys wireless
>two desktops running XP SP1, AVG7, one running SyGate abandonware firewall
>one laptop with latest Ubuntu
>one tablet laptop with Vista something, no clue what's on it - daughter comes and goes with it in tow
>one PSP occasionally getting into the wireless
>a couple of bluetooth phones connecting with the Vista laptop here and there
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>The settings on the routers aren't too paranoid. The firewall doesn't do much, and it's on only one machine - most of the trouble is handled by the router(s).

BTW, what PSP game should I get next? I am ready to finish up Final Fantasy Tactics. I've heard good things about Joan of Arc game (can't think of the actual spelling). I also might pick up the original Final Fantasy since I have never completed it. I see they are coming out with Final Fantasy 7:Crisis Core which is getting great ratings.