I use windows firewall. It is okay for my needs. Zonealarm fucked up my machine too.
We didn't have sex, if that's what you mean. That's all I do now, not have sex.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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le nubian - Apr 30, 2007 11:57:56 am PDT #1432 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Liese S. - Apr 30, 2007 11:58:05 am PDT #1433 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I am grumpy because my host decided to upgrade me to Plesk without telling me. I must be in the middle of migration right now, because I've got all half functionality on everything. And their tech support chat is not going right now. I really don't want to sit on the phone with someone.
§ ita § - Apr 30, 2007 2:42:42 pm PDT #1434 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm looking to upgrade from my pokey 1GB flash drive.
Any recommendations? I was thinking I wanted one with some sort of protection (biometric or password), but am skeptical of the cross-platformability.
When I bought mine, 1GB was hot shit. 4GB would be nice, 16GB...well, depends on price.
What are you guys using?
Typo Boy - Apr 30, 2007 2:53:05 pm PDT #1435 of 25496
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.
Umm - 256 meg.
Not helping, I know.
Sean K - Apr 30, 2007 3:01:32 pm PDT #1436 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Heh, I'm still excited about upgrading my 256mg to a 1G, myself.
DCJensen - Apr 30, 2007 3:04:53 pm PDT #1437 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
Microcenter tends to have good prices.
A while back they had generic 2gb thumbs for $15...
Theodosia - Apr 30, 2007 3:10:26 pm PDT #1438 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Geeze, and I used to think that my 256meg was teh shiznit.
NoiseDesign - Apr 30, 2007 3:56:47 pm PDT #1439 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
I've got a few SanDisk 1GB Mini Cruzers, and I think one of the 2 GB ones, also a couple of the 512 MB ones. They've been reliable and crossplatform. I've not used any with the biometrics or otherwise in them though.
§ ita § - Apr 30, 2007 3:59:57 pm PDT #1440 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You can get 1GB from Sandisk for $14.99 at Microcenter.
I have a friend who's very mobile, and I'm pretty sure he's running Thunderbird and maybe other apps off of a secure Sandisk drive. I think.
esse - May 01, 2007 5:02:43 am PDT #1441 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I used a couple of 1gb key drives from Sandisk, with lots of cross-platform and no problems. I haven't heard anything about biometrics, but you could run encryption software off the drive without having it built in.
As for running software off the key drive, well, that's where it gets pretty cool. You can pretty much run your own personalised Firefox, Thunderbird, etc, off your thumb drive, which is pretty handy, especially if you use other people's computers occasioanlly or need to use your parents', in my instance. There's a couple of good sites for it.
TinyApps: [link]
Portable Apps: [link] Which is my favorite, because they're apps suite is, pardon the pun, pretty sweet.
And you never have to mess with someone's settings again.