Re: What home class cable/dsl routers have IP blocking feature?

Charles Newman wrote:

> What I specialize in is buiding systems to automate
> bookkeeping, over a network. I know how to
> make Visual Basic talk to Orace and Access. The
> kind of system I learned to build can be run over
> any network, and I had to take networking courses
> for that. And we were taught that Bill Gates is
> GOD when it comes to computing. Nearly
> every accounting system around runs under
> Windows. That is what was drummed into our
> heads from Day 1.

You should take those courses again - it's been what, nearly 6 years
now? That's an eternity in computing.

This time they'll teach you that Bill Gates is still a deity, and his XP
SP2 firewall is all you need to secure your systems. Your customers will
be ecstatic when you get rid of their expensive and extraneous dedicated
security systems, and will elevate your status to just below Bill's.

You'll be a hero, and will have to turn away business so you have time
to establish your observatory!

Life is good - until a clue gets in the way.

Triffid
Received on Thu Sep 29 19:57:11 2005