Re: I'm a refugee from windows

Jon Aalborg wrote: 
I leave mine [firewall] turnde off because I sometimes share my internet connection
with another, and then the firewall causes problems, presumably because
it sees this as someone trying to get into my machine. And I don't see


I avoided this problem by

1. Don't use Apple's Prefpanes for sharing or firewall.

2. Write my own rules that make all the machines on my LAN
   wide open to each other and tightly closed to the rest
   of the world.

I like Apple and GUI, but the notion that one checkbox can
set up the One True Way that is perfect for every possible
person on every possible network just isn't true.

--
Wes Groleau

   Don't get even -- get odd!
.

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