Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below
napsgear
genezapharmateuticals
domestic-supply
puritysourcelabs
UGL OZ
UGFREAK
napsgeargenezapharmateuticals domestic-supplypuritysourcelabsUGL OZUGFREAK

internet security question????

TC2

New member
If I already have Norton's firewall on and up to date and shit, do I really need the windows XP firewall enabled???
 
If you have a hardware firewall and you have a software firewall on your system inside of that, depending on how you have your system setup, you can actually cause more problems that way.

Keep the hardware firewall going, have it block everything, and then install all of the latest patches on the inside system.

Don't run programs that you don't know what they are, and be careful on what pop-ups you click on.

If people would all do that, they wouldn't have problems with Windows poor security issues.

That seemed reasonable to me until I had to be the administrator on a network and realize that people aren't going to do the most important parts of "not being retarded".
 
OMGWTFBBQ said:

That seemed reasonable to me until I had to be the administrator on a network and realize that people aren't going to do the most important parts of "not being retarded".

I like to call those folks the "Lowest Common Denominator". That's much nicer than "Fucking Idiot". Waaaaay too many of them.
 
I'm behind a hub and my ISP uses Zone Alarm on all their DNS servers.

Am I safe?
 
Whatcha gonna do now?!?
 
jnuts said:


This thread turned into a geek-fest.

BTW, why the name change?

I'm not sure if I'm a geek, a dork, or a nerd. Whichever one hates everyone, that would be me.

As for the name change, much like the 4th digit of Pi, perhaps there are just some things that man was never meant to know.
 
I'm waaay too board tonight.
----------
Title : Super PI Ver1.1e (calculation of pi up to 33.55 million digits)
Keywords: PI MATH WINDOWS

In August 1995, the calculation of pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits
was succeeded by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The
program was written by D.Takahashi and he collaborated with Dr. Y.Kanada
at the computer center, the University of Tokyo. This record should be
the current world record. ( Details is shown in the windows help. )
This record-breaking program was ported to personal computer environment
such as Windows NT and Windows 95. In order to calculate 33.55 million
digits, it takes within 3 days with Pentium 90MHz, 40MB main memory and
340MB available storage.

ftp://pi.super-computing.org/pub/exec_windows/super_pi.doc
 
There is a page that lists some number of digits of pie - it is about the size of a floppy disk in download size - so I would assume that it is either 100K digits, or 1M - 100K sounds too small to be 1MB in size on disk.

As for Pi - there are fun monte carlo tests to do with a square and placing points that relate to Pi.
 
HumorMe said:
Pi aren't square.

Pi are round. Cornbread are square.

But two points on a square that are 90 degrees apart are equidistant.

This is the same property that one sees in a circle.

With a circle there are an infinite number of points that are the same distance from the center.

Although if you really want to argue, since a point has no size, there are also an infinite number of points in a square that are the same distance from the center.
 
There are also infinite number of points within a point.

OMGWTFBBQ said:


But two points on a square that are 90 degrees apart are equidistant.

This is the same property that one sees in a circle.

With a circle there are an infinite number of points that are the same distance from the center.

Although if you really want to argue, since a point has no size, there are also an infinite number of points in a square that are the same distance from the center.
 
Top Bottom