Onboard NICs might be easier to swallow, but firewalls' main purpose is
to BLOCK stuff from getting to you.  If I didn't set up the firewall, I'm
not entirely comfortable with its filtering.

On Fri, 14 May 2004 08:18:42 -0500 "Brian Kelsay" <BLKELSAY@kcc.usda.gov>
writes:
> All I can say is, WTF?  How do you relate those two things?
> Have you been listening to the black helicopter radio shows again?
> If anything, it reminds us of NICs, sound and video chips getting 
> added 
> to the motherboard.  Not always a good thing, but sometimes makes 
> sense.  Now that most sound chips are equal, it saves headaches of 
> adding another card.  Not always true with NICs as I hate the 
> Realtek 
> chips, but for your average PC user they don't notice the quality 
> difference.
> 
> Brian Kelsay
> 
> >>> Leo J Mauler <> 05/14/04 04:29AM >>>
> Wow, an onboard firewall.  Kinda reminds me of Intel putting those 
> serial
> numbers on their CPUs.
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