No pedestal here sir!
Big picture - how a small questions tie into the
overall problem being examined
& the need to go beyond a few questions by reading the
breadth of the material
on the problem.
Got a firewall entry? Read about TCP/IP, invest in
some real logging software,
read up on what amounts to an attack vs. normal noise,
understand you are less
likely to be hacked than socially engineered, etc...
Do I have a virus? Scan with a known good product, ask
the question "have I done
anything to get one?", know you system & what's
running on it.
Dunno about lingo changes and I do know Google is
becoming harder to filter out
the noise when trying to understand something. There
are things you've asked or
expressed that lean towards "tin foil hat" and give
into "I guess I am not at
that level of understand" too often. We all want you
to get it & be able to work
though I think that stands in the way of helping you
sometimes.
I'm glad to have helped in the past and will likely
continue to do so from time
to time.
DHSinclair wrote:
> Good shot. Ouch! but more inline.......
> At 12:20 02/05/2008 -0800, you wrote:
>> LOL, my father is just entering his 60's and is
forever asking me the
>> same kind of questions. He's always worried about
some event in the
>> firewall log or the potential to have a virus that
can't be detected,
>> yet only uses his machine a few hours a month. In
other words he frets
>> over the details without understanding the big
picture.
>
> ROTFLMAO!!!! From your pedestal, would you care to
share your view of
> the "big picture?" Do you have that 5-figure career
yet? My 'big
> picture' is nobody gets out of this game alive.
>
>
>> Bottom line Duncan is you, like my father, need to
start Googling for
>> some of these answers because the questions are so
far out. If you
>> both did this I think fewer of these questions
would surface because
>> you'd develop solid base knowledge and get a feel
for what's what.
>
> Son, I understand you are irritated with your
Father. One day you will
> be there also.
> I do google my petty little troubles before I come
to this List. Yes, I
> may not be properly using google, my queries may be
incorrect, and, I
> may not have all the lingo down yet. The lingo seems
to change yearly.
> I did not realize that membership in this List now
had a requirement of
> some sort of advanced degree in CS.
>
>
>> In other words if you are a paranoid control freak
then you need to
>> READ MORE not ask more questions of the rest of us
because it sinks in
>> better when you learn breadth of the material
rather than asking
>> pin-point questions in a vacuum.
>
> Fine. I understand this. Thank you for your past
shares with me. I do
> understand that you and I do not share LAN setup
standards and/or the
> proper use of servers....... :) I will get over
it........
> Best,
> Duncan
>
>
<sniped because we've all seen it>
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