Jerry, If Firewall is OFF and you are saying to block all incoming connections, the choices under "security" then "firewall" are 1) to allow all incoming, or 2) essential and 3) is to chose specific services and applications.
Is this where you are saying to block "all"? If so, which one of these do we choose, the third? How does that affect getting items off the internet, downloads of software, iTunes, etc. Thanks. John On Dec 8, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > what's more, said firewall is turned off by default, even if it was > turned on in your migrated tigger install. Block All Incoming > Connections would be the simple choice for a single user, but then > things rapidly go south. as i understand, apple is using an > indeterminate black box rather than ipfw, so it doesn't configure by > ipfw rules. > > after a month plus of daily use with 12-15 open applications, i find > spaces no more productive, and the zooming around tiring. when an > unassigned application reverts to the space in which it was opened, it > is a non-productive inconvenience. > > asking mac users to configure a time machine lan in terminal is > heresy, i think apple will fix that soon. i have time machine up for > the experiment, but it certainly eats disk. 1.4G a day here setting on > a 500G disk which might last a year and i'm a lightweight. my raid is > still intact, but were i on a single disk machine, or generated large > amounts of input files, i would consider other solutions. better than > nothing and remembering it took more than a year to get 10.4 straight. > best...jf > > On Dec 8, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > >> While the article was certainly written as flame-bait, I do think >> the Leopard was given its freedom a little early. I'm using it on >> three different machines and it's not crashed on any of them, but >> there are some rough edges. >> >> ? The firewall, as it installs right out of the box, is a joke. It >> took me a couple of weeks to get back the security I had with Tiger >> because the IPFW interface apparently doesn't work the way IPFW is >> supposed to work and the controls in System Preferences are both >> confusing and anemic. >> >> ? Spaces is the right idea, but they should have looked more closely >> at other virtual desktops. I've been using Desktop Manager under >> Tiger forever and the virtual desktops built into Gnome and KDE in >> Linux for many years. None of them have the annoying interface >> rigidness of Spaces. I never find myself suddenly whisked over to >> another desktop in Linux or with Desktop Manager just because I >> changed programs. In Spaces, it happens all the time, and no matter >> how I jigger the settings, it keeps happening. The desktops should >> be more tied to windows than applications. >> >> ? Why can't Time Machine be easily made to work over a local network? >> >> ? Apple's desktop sharing seems a lot more finicky than other VNC >> implementations. It took me forever to connect to my office Mac from >> home because I had to tweak routers and firewalls. Making a VNC >> connection to the Linux machine in my office from my Mac at home was >> easy. > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
