On 2017-03-29, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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On 2017-03-24, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"whit3rd" wrote in message

BTW -- Sorry about the delay. My firewall system died and it took
me a few
days to re-learn enough about the program to configure a new one
in new hardware to get on the air again.

Now -- the easy way would have been to go on eBay and purchase a
replacement power supply for that system (not a common one, and not
room
to kluge something else into a 1U high system), but without a
working
firewall, eBay was out of reach. (Besides, it might have taken
longer to find a replacement anyway. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

If you need cheap backup Internet access, XP still works with IE8, and
better with Firefox. This laptop is only a 1.6 GHz single-core on
dialup.

I make it a practice to not allow Windows of any flavor to
access the net from my interface. Mostly because I don't know enough
about the internals of Windows to turn off everything that I would not
consider safe. Various unix flavors, including Mac's OS-X, I have a
better feel for.

And I've got a T1 feed, with a few systems visible from the
outside (web servers and mail servers) and everything else lurking
behind the firewall on a different IP group.

I guess that I could have connected the laptop with Ubuntu on
it, and easily enough changed its IP to work, but ... :-)

Malware hasn't been a problem but if you worry about it you can backup
or clone the hard drive with free software, then wipe and restore an
infected (or user-damaged) drive.

I do have a newer, faster Win7 system nearly ready to replace it. That
"broken" laptop cost me $1 at a flea market, plus $40 for an SSD.

Spare computers are nice to have.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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