RE: Mersenne: Security and Prime95/mprime

2000-03-03 Thread Paul Leyland
linux is a Good Move ... ceratinly, in its default state, it's at least as secure (when used as a firewall) as anything emanating from a certain purveyor of operating systems based near Seattle. It's cheaper, too! Please note: Seattle is about 5000 miles from where I am, despite my

Mersenne: Security and Prime95/mprime

2000-03-02 Thread St. Dee
Hi, I'll likely be moving to a cable modem soon and intend to install a machine to act as a firewall, likely a Linux box. Since it will be sitting there all day doing nothing other than screening stuff between my LAN and the 'Net, I thought I'd run mprime (if Linux) on it. Of course, all of

Re: Mersenne: Security and Prime95/mprime

2000-03-02 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 2 Mar 00, at 14:01, St. Dee wrote: I'll likely be moving to a cable modem soon and intend to install a machine to act as a firewall, likely a Linux box. linux is a Good Move ... ceratinly, in its default state, it's at least as secure (when used as a firewall) as anything emanating from