ZeroConf in Ubuntu Edgy

Patrick McFarland diablod3 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 3 23:41:23 BST 2006


On Monday 03 July 2006 18:23, Tobias Wolf wrote:
> Am Montag, den 03.07.2006, 17:18 -0400 schrieb Ivan Krstic:
> > No, and no, respectively. The usability problem is that users have to
> > deal with firewalls at all. We address it by short-circuiting the issue:
> > because we don't ship open ports, our users don't have to worry much
> > about firewalling.
>
> And how many users still have zero open ports one year after installing
> Ubuntu?

I'm just going to go ahead and say vast majority. Like, most machines are in 
single computer environments, and just browse the web and check email all 
their lives. Scary, yes, true, probably.

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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,
we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and
listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo,
Inc, 1989




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