Goodbye software firewall on your desktop PC

[lerninlinux at comcast.net]

While I agree that you should have one you set up,  I think that there is nothing wrong with this.  
For us it could just add another firewall (hardware nat,like current router boxes), while for the 
newby/  Typical Windows users it might help.  I would like to see the bios,  because besides being 
able to turn it on and off, I would think they would include other options.  Just want to see what!

> Onboard NICs might be easier to swallow, but firewalls' main purpose is
> to BLOCK stuff from getting to you.  If I didn't set up the firewall, I'm
> not entirely comfortable with its filtering.
> 
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 08:18:42 -0500 "Brian Kelsay" <BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov>
> writes:
> > All I can say is, WTF?  How do you relate those two things?
> > Have you been listening to the black helicopter radio shows again?
> > If anything, it reminds us of NICs, sound and video chips getting 
> > added 
> > to the motherboard.  Not always a good thing, but sometimes makes 
> > sense.  Now that most sound chips are equal, it saves headaches of 
> > adding another card.  Not always true with NICs as I hate the 
> > Realtek 
> > chips, but for your average PC user they don't notice the quality 
> > difference.
> > 
> > Brian Kelsay
> > 
> > >>> Leo J Mauler <> 05/14/04 04:29AM >>>
> > Wow, an onboard firewall.  Kinda reminds me of Intel putting those 
> > serial
> > numbers on their CPUs.
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