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RE: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers
From: "Ionut Boldizsar" <ionut () provision ro>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:28:22 +0300
-----Original Message----- From: firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com] On Behalf Of Marcus J. Ranum Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 6:06 AM To: David Lang; Emily Conrad Cc: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers
With technology today I recommend (in general) never buying maintenance and expecting to turn a product over ever year or 2 - or keep it indefinitely as long as it works. I tend to do scorched-earth hard disk upgrades every 2 years (yay, digital photography) but I am still using Office '95 and it runs just great on my 2Ghz machine. So, yes, think about the future - but think about it from the standpoint of "most of this stuff DOESN'T HAVE A FUTURE." mjr.
This is all great, but I hope you are mainly referring to hardware equipments and office suites, otherwise you just put 80 % of us out of business (both vendors and practitioners) :) I somehow believe that security related software should be update/maintained as much as possible. Mainly because anyhow this is all reactive, thus two-steps behind the real threat. You might be using Office 95, and do a great job with it, but I doubt you're still using a '95 antivirus on that PC, right? :) And still, your last phrase is pure truth: most of this stuff really has no future. //ionut _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Re: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers, (continued)
- Re: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Marcus J. Ranum (Jul 21)
- Re: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Carson Gaspar (Jul 21)
- RE: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Paul Melson (Jul 21)
- Re: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers David Lang (Jul 21)
- RE: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Keith A. Glass (Jul 22)
- Re: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Marcus J. Ranum (Jul 22)
- Re: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Keith A. Glass (Jul 21)
- RE: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Paul Melson (Jul 21)
- RE: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Sawyer, Christopher (Jul 21)
- RE: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Paul Melson (Jul 21)
- RE: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Ionut Boldizsar (Jul 25)
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- RE: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Marcus J. Ranum (Jul 25)
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- Re: Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers Marcus J. Ranum (Jul 21)