Another Day Playing SysAdmin 3
This time it was getting the new Windows box on line, setting up the firewall, and verifying that it works properly as a print server for my network.
I also did a few things I always do to Windows XP computers.
I went into Control Panel–>Administrative Tools–>Services and disabled the “Security Center” nagware service. I have a firewall and I have an antivirus. If Microsoft “Securty [gag] Center” is too stupid to recognize the existence of the NetDefense firewall, it can go pound sand.
I went into Control Panel–>System–>Advanced–>Error Reporting and turned off Error Reporting. I have no interest in telling Microsoft anything about my computer usage. Goodness knows, they do enough sniffing on their own.
I went into Control Panel–>Date and Time–>Internet Time and changed the time server from Microsoft to a U. S. government server, although, heaven knows, the U. S. goverment has no more scruples about spying on citizens than does Microsoft.
My brain is tired.
Regularly scheduled imprecations and invective resume tomorrow.
October 8, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I did notice the concurrence of your absence from blogging and Obama’s surge ahead in the polls.
October 8, 2008 at 9:46 pm
If that’s what did it, I’ll happily take my computer outside and shoot it.
But I DOW not think that was it.
October 9, 2008 at 12:37 pm
“But I DOW not think that was it.”
I didn’t know you were the type that put any stock in puns. You stepped into a really bad one there and nobody is likely to offer you a bailout. I’m not sure what your options are. In these cases, forgiveness can be a scare commodity.