OT: redhat OT: XP-SP2

[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:

> Only Walter Vaughan would say something like:
>>Dumb. It's a part of the network stack. It keeps your XP box from 
>>spewing packets out that you don't want going out or accepting ones you 
>>don't want. No overhead. Even while you disabled it, it still had to 
>>look at the firewall.
> If you're firewalled, antivirused, and practice sane computing practices,
> -and- you're sitting behind a firewall, why should there be any packes
> coming to or from your machine that you don't want?
> 
> If you have packets coming out that you don't want, you have a rogue
> application, and somehow got infected with -something-.

Hum. Just a few minutes ago I installed a CD from a General Motors 
division that I got at SEMA. Boom, a firewall notice pops up.
Of course I'm gonna block it, ain't their business I'm looking at this 
CD. CD still works.

Dig in a little more, what are they doing on this CD?

Wait, this is way too cool for school... http://www.dwebpro.com/
is what they used to make a dbms run on the CD without installing
anything.

How'd this miss my radar?

This solves a ton of issues regarding distributing database data.
Too bad it doesn't work with filePro out of the box.

--
Walter