> >If you are wireless from the source (ie: you live in a big city that is >offering high speed wireless internet access where the access point is >out in the street somewhere), then you are in a totally different >situation and you will likely find it easiest to go with a software >solution.
Chris, this is overkill for William, at least for his precise scenario, even for the paranoid. ;-) I would never bother to run a software firewall on a Mac powerbook for connecting on "open wireless" networks. Maybe in the future when there are valid OS X threats, but paranoia for an OS 8 user is over the top. What is he going to catch? .Scores? ;-) William: Just enjoy your free connection while it lasts. There are no threats for OS 8, you don't have a network for someone to physically connect to and sniff out. ;-) What you have is called a "war driving" connection, although you are lucky enough to do it from home. I do it all the time now, and never think about it. Its fun, travel to a city, get in a car, drive around until I get a network, and get on line. Seems like any residential neighborhood has plenty of free acess. the most unusual war driving connection I had was leaving LA a few weeks ago. I was on Santa Monica Blvd at night, driving by these huge condo buildings with valet parking, etc. I just pulled into the unloading parking in front, and grabbed my choice of connection. Each condo building had dozens. ;-) You can even buy a little pocket device to tell you when there are 802.11 networks around. I made a suggestion to them to have it only detect "open" networks, which they loved. I can't wait. ;-) just enjoy your free internet, I bet everyone is envious. ;-) Linux is a tough competitor. There's no company called Linux, there's barely a Linux road map. Yet Linux sort of springs organically from the earth. And it had, you know, the characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much about it. That is, it's free. - Stephen P. Ballmer 7/31/00 Mark James SoftRAID, LLC mjames@ softraid.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
