Firewalls

[Citizen Bleys]

My grandfather had the whole dratted firewall turned off, and Norton still had stubs of itself resident in memory anyways which prevented any browsing with any browser

[Baloki]

I thought it was well known that Windows had trouble with Nortons Script blocking add-on...

[crono_logical]

Since you were bothered to make the effort, Baloki, go and install Gentoo.

[Baloki]

Since you were bothered to make the effort, Baloki, go and install Gentoo.

Send me a copy and I will

[Dr Unne]

http://www.gentoo.org

[Baloki]

I don't have a pen-drive big enough to copy it. I might order it on CD though *Goes to check the prices*

Edit: $35 plus delievery, OW! I can't afford that and I can't download it as I don't have my own net connection

[Citizen Bleys]

If you don't have a net connection, why the devil are you expending huge amounts of system resources with a firewall?

[Mirage]

Yeah, $35 is WAY too much for an operating system!

[Baloki]

Yeah, $35 is WAY too much for an operating system!

When you can dowload it for free, why yes it is.

If you don't have a net connection, why the devil are you expending huge amounts of system resources with a firewall?

And why am I? Because it uses next to none of my system resources, so I'm happy just to leave it there with its nice intigrated Anti-virus and wait till I get a proper net connection back in a few months.

[Appless]

How much do routers cost?

[Baloki]

Wireless router:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...uct_uid=130021

Hardwired (Ordinary) Router:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=11855

[Appless]

Sorry, the second link didn't work. That's the one I'd probably have to go with.

[Mirage]

Baloki: But you can't download it for free :p.

[Baloki]

Sorry, the second link didn't work. That's the one I'd probably have to go with.

Hardware ones are about $40-50

Baloki: But you can't download it for free .

And I can't afford $40 just to play around with it

[crono_logical]

Gentoo's not really too good over other distros unless you have an internet connection on the machine it's installed on anyway to do all the nice updating and stuff

Still though, using a software firewall just because it's integrated with something else you use even though you don't have a connection is stupid, even more so when it's bloated/resource hungry software. You might as well turn on the XP firewall while you're at it by your reasoning.