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9/13/2008 3:20:41 PM	A couple questions from an idiot
anth3ra Walworth, NY age: 21	I agree completely with you on the aspect of building your own systems, it makes things a whole lot easier when you know exactly what components you have. It also saves a good amount of dough, generally speaking. In regards to a software versus hardware firewall, I'd go with hardwired router any day. I've never installed a software firewall (accept when installing for customers) on my own system, or on any computer in my home network and don't feel you need to.
9/14/2008 11:32:20 AM	A couple questions from an idiot
tomiscluutch Columbia, SC age: 20	From a USERS standpoint, and well, my two years of CCNA classes, i believe leaving your system on nonstop is the better option. More resources are used at startup, and constantly starting up on a daily basis eventually wears the heck out of your rig. As far as i know, the best option is a hardware firewall backed up with a software firewall. I use a router with NAT and a payware software firewall. [Edited 9/14/2008 11:34:11 AM]
9/14/2008 2:30:30 PM	A couple questions from an idiot
randomwalk Pequannock, NJ age: 36	Quote from tomiscluutch: From a USERS standpoint, and well, my two years of CCNA classes, i believe leaving your system on nonstop is the better option. More resources are used at startup, and constantly starting up on a daily basis eventually wears the heck out of your rig. As far as i know, the best option is a hardware firewall backed up with a software firewall. I use a router with NAT and a payware software firewall. I have a CCNA (and a CCNP)...but I have no idea what Cisco products have to do with powering on and off PC's Why would you be restarting your Cisco infrastructure daily...ever??? By the way.... How the HELL did you spend 2 years on just a CCNA???? That is mind boggling!
9/14/2008 8:08:22 PM	A couple questions from an idiot
tomiscluutch Columbia, SC age: 20	it was in a high school vocation class. about the only concrete computer experience i have under my belt thats worth a damn besides personal experiences
9/14/2008 8:40:09 PM	A couple questions from an idiot
pennell23101 Vine Grove, KY age: 32	you would be surprised how much more hands on means
9/18/2008 9:42:53 AM	A couple questions from an idiot
highlandscout Tonasket, WA age: 58	Dirty socks in the registry will slow down computers... even clean socks simply strewn across the floor will cause resources to be expended looking for matching pairs.... but more on this later. I've run lots of computers in remote dusty, dirty, dryland, mountain situations where 120 degres in the summer and -20 F in the winter with wood heat... has been par for the course. My computers on and off for years. And once, back in the early 1990'z, I bought a can of that dust free spray air cleaner... still have it somewhere... funny commercial games playing on the fears of the inexperienced with high dollar investments. My computers have continued to run. Even with growing up kids and whatever they tracked in and spilled on them. Of course I encouraged cleanliness. And there have been some years when the little no-stoplite town first got wireless at the library... that I would pick up the big computer and monitor, set them in the old farm pickup passenger seat, beat my way down the few mile long owner maintained dirt road to the pavement... and go to town to do some fast work or download a bunch of stuff i had earmarked over the slower phonelines... One winter I had the computer setup in a RV town near town with a phoneline our across the snow... we'd get better than 20 below 0 F... and every few days I'd go down there with full winter gear on and fingerless gloves... run the engine of the RV to warm it up some... You guys look like you're having fun! I'm glad I came here! I'm no whiz... California computer school in 1972... some 19 years before Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first programs for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol for the scientists at CERN... But it's always been just a hobby, like talking... swimming... riding.... joking around. Seriously, started running different flavors of Linux back in the early 1990'z. messed around in the registry and reinstalled lots of times after getting too zealous late at nite! CCleaner seems to help lots of folks and is a free download... use it like dental floss. RegSeeker does good stuff for me, too... free and clean ...go to the source. but still a dummy... with a smile! used to run the free anti virus programs on my microsoft machines... like AVG... pretty good... but always meant slow actions on my remote mountain antiquated phoneline which we accessed thru solar powered FM relay... and I did not like the long waits almost never had any viral problems and there were years when i searched high and low everywhere.... never had a viral prob running linux... but they do exist... i feel that i was never a target and i adjusted many things not acceping default settings for a few years with some laptops that have not been linux friendly, ie they had and have software modems, i've run dual operating systems or just that old Microsolth, pardon the spelling... but the huge pig of a coding monstrosity would slow down a run away freight train... unless you have the money to constantly buy new faster hardware with outrageous memory... with Innernut Exploder he says with thong in cheek...(is humor OK here?) For 2 years I have run XP on a few laptops with no anti virus and no problems... and on the net near daily. I do get a little nervous when the kids have wanted to go a'surfin' Who knows where they might get sucked into!!! I DO NOT USE INTERNET EXPLORER. Firefox and Thunderbird with addons to control what may enter my computer. Now, I have Flock 2.0b.2 on Firfox 3.0.1 Both have the greasemonkey addon with choice user scripts which improve my search engines and web viewing hundred fold. I would never suggest a novice go without protection as who knows their habits and internet intercourse with strangers without protection can be dangerous! One suggestion is to partition your hard drive so that if all else fails you can reinstall without losing your downloads, images, sound files, notes, that book you are writing and so on. Stay away from the wild places and stick to open source where the code gets looked at freely by all sorts of code critics... unlike that patented stuff where messing with code is illegal and made difficult. Hey, Vet, I'm an idiot, too! posting something like this could attract some bug to my computer like i might be a challenge to infect!
9/18/2008 10:32:58 AM	A couple questions from an idiot
highlandscout Tonasket, WA age: 58	quoting myself from above to correct the error... California computer school in 1972... some 19 years before Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first programs for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol for the scientists at CERN... oops... sometimes i write too fast... california, San Jose school intro in 1982, 9 years before HTTP and modern click the hot link software got written... not 1972... in 1972, my buddies at Claremont Men's College were using cards with holes in them... [Edited 9/18/2008 10:34:35 AM]
9/19/2008 5:15:25 PM	A couple questions from an idiot
thes0urce1969 Etobicoke, ON age: 39	If you use your computer more than once a day you're better off leaving it on. Personally I just leave my computer on. I never had a hard drive die on me, I just end up tossing it because it's too outdated or not enough capacity.
9/20/2008 3:41:47 AM	A couple questions from an idiot
vet61 Farmington, IL age: 47	What the hell are you people talking about? I'm an idiot, remember? When you explain things to me about computers, talk like you are talking to a 1st grader!!
9/20/2008 9:39:56 AM	A couple questions from an idiot
highlandscout Tonasket, WA age: 58	If you leave it on make sure it is plugged into one of those good surge protectors. I've lost to the lightening strikes... even the phoneline, struck by lightening, can carry a devasting strike to your modem... electric and phone lines thru a surge protector then on or off? lot of high class detail in the end... before to many on-off cycles pass... they'll market new hardware and this stuff will be obsolete... no? I've still got 386's that work... on... off... on.... off.... comes from years of power from a gasoline generator. many times a year the gasoline would run out and... poof! no more electricity! computer hardware still works when powered back up
9/20/2008 6:23:31 PM	A couple questions from an idiot
pennell23101 Vine Grove, KY age: 32	i would recommend a battery backup over a surge protector, it will help you out alot better and the price is less than a power supply replacement if you go with a small one.
9/25/2008 9:00:24 PM	A couple questions from an idiot
camoch Grovetown, GA age: 58	Quote from vet61: What the hell are you people talking about? I'm an idiot, remember? When you explain things to me about computers, talk like you are talking to a 1st grader!! Well Vet61 nice to meet ya. I am also a Vet, 6/68 to 6/69 Viet-Nam. I have read everything everyone is trying to tell you and I can see your confussion. Read my profile and you deside for yourself. No one is a 100% expert on computers. Not even the manufactures. Just because someone says do this, remember its just their opinion. And like everybody else I have mine. Things to consider about leaving your computer run all the time are: Modern computers receive normal Windows updates at about 3am by default. Now this is designed with the intention of leaving the computer on during this hour. I understand that you can change the time but the intention is that the computer be left on all the time. You also receive Norton (symantec)and other updates all during the day. As far as hardware. A constant temperature is better on the electrical components than being let cool and get hot again. This action causes condensation which everyone knows is harmful to electrical components. On most hardware components like HDD (hard drives), when you visit the manufacture website, it says the life expectincy of that item. Usuall for hard drives its over 60,000hrs. What people fail to realize is that the 60,000hrs is of continus use. That doesn't mean that if you turn your computer off when you are not useing it that the HDD will last longer in time. (IE Years) Like one other person said about grease in beargings salitifing is also true. And at the same time the fan on other shafts that run with bushings instead of bearings, the bushings tend to loose shape after cooling down and heating up. Thats just plain physics. Some people will point out that by turning it off and on that if something happens you will be at the computer and be able to catch it, (like overheating) and possibly prevent it doing more damage. This is true but at the same time, you have a problem that has to be fixed. Also think about the monitor. Most LCD, TFT, monitors have floresent bulbs in them. When you consider what it takes to start a floresent bulb you would understand that by turning one off and on every day, with that extra electrical boost it needs to start, it reduces the life span of the bulb by 1/3. Unless you have some really powerful power consuming computer and monitor, the electrical cost isn't that much per month. Usually only a few dollars. Knowing what I do about computers, I choose to leave it on all the time. After you or anybody else that reads my profile, need help or good free virus programs, feel free to message me and I will do what I can to help.

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