On Sunday, February 22, 2004, at 03:01 AM, Philip Stortz wrote:
classic, unfortunately is run on top of os x, and indeed does not load the control panels
or extensions in the os 9 folder.
Yes it does! If you click the little reveal arrow of the window that comes up while Classic is booting you will see the old OS 9 boot screen, complete with marching extensions...
myself, i haven't played with os x as much as i want because i don't have a good hardware
firewall yet, and i want that while i'm learning X since i'll be using the web, and *nix
is a completely different set of security problems etc. that i just won't understand at
first, besides i want a hardware firewall anyway, there is just too much spyware and virus
problems out there.
1) Out of the box, OS X is very secure. Nothing is turned on; it doesn't have the myriad of weird little services running you can get in a poorly set-up Linux box, for example. Telnet, FTP, heck even logging in via ssh is turned off. If you don't enable file sharing or Web service, OS X is close to as secure as OS 9 is, for the same reason...almost no externally accessible services are running.
2) What spyware or virus problems? There are NO OS X viruses, and no spyware I've yet to find being sent around (you can indeed have programs that function as spyware, but they don't get installed because you think you're installing a pop-up blocker in IE...
3) Software vs. Hardware firewalls are not much different, as hardware firewalls are merely specialized computers doing the same thing that a software firewall does, with no resources used on the protected computers. Their main advantage is that, like most specialized computers used in networking, they're fast, and can often handle a great deal of bandwidth without choking.
A Commodore 64 can handle dial-up bandwidth without choking...
i use a software firewall now, and even on a dialup line with a
dynamic ip i get an amazing number of incursion attempts, which often create a denial of
service effect just because of the number of attempts from different machines or from an
aggressive machine, and i've run into some pretty obnoxious and rapidly repeated incursion
attempts that just tie up all the bandwidth.
A hardware firewall is not going to do diddly to help this. If you're on a *dial* up system and this is eating your bandwidth complain to your ISP, or get a different one.
Also, what software firewall are you running? Some of those, when mis-configured, do a dandy job of DOS'ing themselves though over-reporting. Some will let you monitor every bit of TCP/IP traffic to and from your computer, turning them into packet sniffers as well.
in any case, you can have both systems on the same machine, and things that don't need
thier own drivers, extensions or control panels usually work well in classic.
If a device driver goes through the OS properly, it should have no problem running in Classic. Of all of my extensions the only one that gave Classic fits was the cache enabler for my G4 card in the 7600, which was not needed when running in Classic.
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