Not to mention the fact that I had Ethernet cable installed, and so now I don't need the wireless feature here at my apartment. I had posted that on the list thinking it would end there. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the advice, but it's all kind of mute now. I will ad that when I had the wireless feature enable, and had the encryption turned off( I didn't leave it off all the time), it was nice of that other individual to make their machine available as a free backup service. Jim On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 23:17 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > Jacques B. wrote: > > > > Jacques > > Don't be so touchy. Surely, if someone gave you bad advice you'd want to > > hear that is is bad. None of us is perfect. > > What I find quite "interesting" was that this thread started out by the OP > in an apartment complex wanting to keep one person off his network. I kind > of doubt that he has military secrets or corporate information on his system > such that anyone would make elaborate attempts to access his network. > > He has got one person that seems rather clueless since he leaves his system > wide open to be trashed...so he isn't a rocket scientist. > > And everyone is running around spending hours and hours to educate the OP on > how to build their version of a maximum security prison when all he needs is > a simple pad lock on his door. > > I've seen enough paranoia here to last a life time. >
