yup - a proper firewall is crucial to living a long, healtly and happy life...Reverse Engineer wrote:You're the DUMBASS then mate.arke wrote:Well, I don't run a firewall, I don't run Anti virus, and I'm not having any trouble even though my computer is connected to the net 24 hours a day.
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- KVRAF
- 25042 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
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- KVRAF
- 25042 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
AV only if you run dodgy .exe's... (a.k.a. warez)cptgone wrote: firewall and AV are essentials.
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- KVRian
- 1023 posts since 8 Apr, 2003 from Östersund
You and me Arke, you and me.
I scan for viruses online now and then but never ever find anything. So I really don't see the point. Just avoid using Office, Outlook and installing software from unknown sources and one will be just fine.
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Call me stupid and what not. But I can't help but feel slightly amused over the fact that connecting the DAW to the internet for a minute is a massive issue when we're talking about a software that's either free with a magazine or costs 50 euro.
But hey, what do I know?
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Oh and while on the topic. I would want a host that's usually always connected to the net through something similar to Steam that Half-Life uses. Would be excellent to have a small app to keep track on updates, free plugins and samples with direct access to support forums and software demos. The software would work offline as well but would need a logged on user to download patches and such. That way one can access all music software from whichever computer easily by grabbing the client and logging on, just like Steam. But hey in a world full of dongles, serialnumbers and pace we're never gonna see anything clever and easy to use now are we?
/Majken
I scan for viruses online now and then but never ever find anything. So I really don't see the point. Just avoid using Office, Outlook and installing software from unknown sources and one will be just fine.
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Call me stupid and what not. But I can't help but feel slightly amused over the fact that connecting the DAW to the internet for a minute is a massive issue when we're talking about a software that's either free with a magazine or costs 50 euro.
But hey, what do I know?
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Oh and while on the topic. I would want a host that's usually always connected to the net through something similar to Steam that Half-Life uses. Would be excellent to have a small app to keep track on updates, free plugins and samples with direct access to support forums and software demos. The software would work offline as well but would need a logged on user to download patches and such. That way one can access all music software from whichever computer easily by grabbing the client and logging on, just like Steam. But hey in a world full of dongles, serialnumbers and pace we're never gonna see anything clever and easy to use now are we?
/Majken
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- KVRist
- 254 posts since 4 Nov, 2004
No serious musician or sounddesigner has connected his DAW to the internet. Therefore are those programs like SAM 8 or Acid, Soundforge and so on a problem. Seems we get a lot of trouble in future with activations and other protections.
The source of light is darkness
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- KVRAF
- 25042 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
That automatically renders DevonB and me to not being serious musicians.diversheat wrote:No serious musician or sounddesigner has connected his DAW to the internet.
f**k off asshole!
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- KVRAF
- 25042 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
Hunter wrote:I would be able to have a cleaner and faster running system, rather than having firewall, anti-virus, and various behind the scenes stuff running and taking up resources. Its a pain to have to run End-it-all to stop all this crap when you want to do music
nope, not really 'cleaner and faster'
- you only need to run the AV-software in case you want to run an .exe-file you are unsure about
- the firewall uses minimal cpu-ressources -> on my Athlon XP2600+ (786mb ram) I usually am not able to notice any significant difference when ending the internet-connection and closing down both my Sygate firewall and Thunderbird - of course Thunderbird uses some mb of your ram when running (about 25mb on my machine) so if you need those...
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- KVRian
- 694 posts since 6 Aug, 2002 from London, UK
It's like a software developer not connecting his machine to the Internet 'cause he might lose code; or a graphic designer not connecting his machine to the Internet because he might lose images he's been working on; or...
It's 2006 for f*ck's sake - get over this and just practise safe computing.
It's 2006 for f*ck's sake - get over this and just practise safe computing.
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- KVRian
- 1023 posts since 8 Apr, 2003 from Östersund
kp: Well said mate
/Majken
/Majken
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- KVRist
- 254 posts since 4 Nov, 2004
Thank you for your friendly wish, jens! Of course there are serious musicians with a connected DAW, if they only own one machine. In so far my statement was not correct. But it's dangerous. I had that situation three years ago when I had only one PC and it was connected. The day I lost a whole project from a customer because of a virus. A very expensive experience! A second PC was much cheaper. I wish you all the best, jens!jens wrote:That automatically renders DevonB and me to not being serious musicians.diversheat wrote:No serious musician or sounddesigner has connected his DAW to the internet.
f**k off asshole!
The source of light is darkness
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- KVRian
- 1023 posts since 8 Apr, 2003 from Östersund
And how the hell are you suggesting we're gonna be able to do that?backpage wrote:It's highly unlikely anyone is going to pick up a virus by connecting to a secure server on magix.net. Stay away from the porn and you'll be fine.
/Majken
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- KVRAF
- 25042 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
diversheat wrote:Thank you for your friendly wish, jens! Of course there are serious musicians with a connected DAW, if they only own one machine. In so far my statement was not correct. But it's dangerous. I had that situation three years ago when I had only one PC and it was connected. The day I lost a whole project from a customer because of a virus. A very expensive experience! A second PC was much cheaper. I wish you all the best, jens!jens wrote:That automatically renders DevonB and me to not being serious musicians.diversheat wrote:No serious musician or sounddesigner has connected his DAW to the internet.
f**k off asshole!
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- KVRAF
- 3617 posts since 26 Sep, 2003 from Bradford - The Armpit of Britain
Well 6 months, 2000 posts & frankensteins monster is definately being born in arrogance.arke wrote:WHY!? WHY WHY WHY WHY DO YOU DUMBASS PEOPLE NOT CONNECT YOUR DAWS TO THE NET!?PeterL wrote:I will never connect my DAW to internet, so it's waste of money for me.
Well done - I take it your limited 18 year old view & experience of the world & t'internet is supposed to convince naysayers (many of whom have been using pc's since before you were born) of the errors of their ways?
Not saying rights or wrongs - just no need to be such an arrogant little prick about it is there?
Anyway some of the 'dumbasses' I know simply don't take any chances - at all, we're talking people who earn a living doing this, have a clientele, deadlines etc? - no internet connection, religious backups etc. - right, wrong? who knows, it's their choice.
They don't need some DUMBASS KID coming shouting the odds at them in his ARROGANT little voice now do they?
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- Banned
- 717 posts since 18 Feb, 2004
as far as ive found your right. but like somebody else said they have a music daw and buisness pc and internet pc too. its called moneydiversheat wrote:No serious musician or sounddesigner has connected his DAW to the internet.