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Typo Boy - Jan 19, 2005 12:31:20 pm PST #1279 of 10003

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

My mind is failing to grasp an elementary security principle. Client has router with NAT firewall built in. New DSL service rents DSL modem that is integrated with hub for attaching workstations - no firewall included. DSL provider wants to use crossover cable to attach workstation port on DSL hub to workstation port on router with firewall. Why does putting the DSL modem (with no firewall) connecting directly to the outside world inside the firewall not constitute a gaping security hole?

Previously the router had a cable modem attached to the WAN port. With that arrangement (as I understand it) The cable modem was outside the firewall, the workstations were inside the firewall. Maybe this is my false premise.

meara - Jan 19, 2005 2:15:17 pm PST #1280 of 10003

It depends if you've already got memory in the expansion slot. Apple System Profiler (found in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder) can tell you that.

Excellent, it's empty, thanks! I figure I put in my wireless card, surely I can do this.

tommyrot - Jan 20, 2005 6:00:18 am PST #1281 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

New Mac stuff wait times (for order ing online from the Apple store):

512 Meg iPod Shuffle: 2-3 weeks.
1 GB iPod Shuffle: 3-4 weeks.
Mac Mini: 3-4 weeks

Part of me regrets not buying a Mini when they first were announced, but I never managed to come up with an excuse to buy one.

DXMachina - Jan 20, 2005 8:07:44 am PST #1282 of 10003

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

LiveJournal explains exactly what happened when the lights went out. [link]

The moral. Never push the big red button. Ever.

Steph L. - Jan 20, 2005 8:08:54 am PST #1283 of 10003

Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

The moral. Never push the big red button. Ever.

Like the Don't Room in "Smile Time."

tommyrot - Jan 20, 2005 8:13:49 am PST #1284 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The moral. Never push the big red button. Ever.

But it's so big, shiny and candy-colored!

eta: exact quote:

And only with the mere push of a single button. The beautiful shiny button...the jolly candy like button.

amych - Jan 20, 2005 8:16:17 am PST #1285 of 10003

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

psssst. Tom broke Livejournal. Pass it on.

DXMachina - Jan 20, 2005 8:25:50 am PST #1286 of 10003

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

psssst. Bomb woke jive colonel. Pass it on.

Steph L. - Jan 20, 2005 8:28:09 am PST #1287 of 10003

Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Mom smoked five turtles?!? WTF?

tommyrot - Jan 20, 2005 8:29:00 am PST #1288 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Well, maybe if mom wasn't always smoking turtles, the jive colonels could get more sleep.

eta: I'm pretty sure that in the history of human civilization, the above sentence is unique.

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