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susiwong wrote:those people don't think a second about buying a cheap 300 $ PC dedicated to internet use only, if this improves their security and keeps their DAWs free from all the necessary stuff for internet use.
One lost session for a client will surely cost more than the extra PC, not even talking about the damage to your reputation.
Well...my dads brothers mates cousins uncles sister-in-laws addopted brothers nephew works in a studio that the beatles and james brown and bette midler and frankie goes to hollywood and yanni and neds atomic dustbin and cleopatra (comin at ya) and the pretenders and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and bob dylan all recorded their hit records in and it doesn't have computers at all, so there.jens wrote:yeah, I was speaking about bigger pro-studios...
...or a hardware firewall which is built into every router and many DSL modems and is much more reliable than any software firewalljens wrote:I was with you until you made that list, Arke - all points are bollocks (apart from common sense)...
- you basically just need a good relaible firewall... (e.g. Sygate)
...or a hardware firewall which is built into every router and many DSL modems and will take exactly no resources, no matter what computerjens wrote:- 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...
...or a hardware firewall which is built into every router and many DSL modems, doesn't require a download, is guaranteed to not expire, and is more reliable anyway.terragong wrote:use zonealarm firewall thats 4-free and works perfect
The pros do/don't do X, so everybody whos SERIOUS should do it too, right? You probably use Cubase/Sonar because it has a better summing engine too, right?diversheat wrote:No serious musician or sounddesigner has connected his DAW to the internet.
Especially if you use a decent browser (Firefox, Opera, Mozilla Suite, K-Meleon, whatever).backpage wrote:It's highly unlikely anyone is going to pick up a virus by connecting to a secure server on magix.net.
Porn hasn't gotten me a virus yetbackpage wrote:Stay away from the porn and you'll be fine.
Forgive me, I'm slightly agitated today, also this is about the millionth time I've seen this BS statement and I guess I snapped. But who cares, its teh intarweb!1diverdee wrote: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?
I don't think in my 6 months and 2600 posts of KVR I've ever seen a post longer than 2 sentences that I've agreed with so much. I think I want to be your friend. Email me!Majken wrote: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
how should that work? A firewall needs to ask you about what traffic you allow and what traffic you don't allow... - I'm sure you got something wrong there mate...arke wrote:
...or a hardware firewall which is built into every router and many DSL modems and is much more reliable than any software firewall
its really easy. I allow outgoing traffic, I don't allow ingoing traffic (unless I'm at school without my computer, then I have VNC turned on). Anything that runs on my computer runs for a purpose, and will have a purpose behind going on the net.jens wrote:how should that work? A firewall needs to ask you about what traffic you allow and what traffic you don't allow... - I'm sure you got something wrong there mate...arke wrote:
...or a hardware firewall which is built into every router and many DSL modems and is much more reliable than any software firewall
dunno what sort of special needs you have then .. it blocks whats incoming, except the VNC port when I need it. Thats all I need it to do and thats all I could ever think it would need to do.jens wrote:it ain't that easy mate - there's no propwe hardware-firewall in dsl-routers and stuff...
Jens, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. The firewalls you talk about are designed to protect a consumer PC that is connected to the internet. The reason that the firewall is running on YOUR PC has little to do with 'asking what traffic to allow' and everything with the fact that it is just ONE computer. There is simply no other computer around (with most consumers that is) that can run a dedicated firewall. I have a dedicated computer running a (linux) firewall to protect my complete home network. It is one firewall that protect ALL machines in my network (being my DAW, my own laptop and the laptop of my wife). This is the normal setup for any company network as well. Do you really think that a network administrator is going to maintain all these personal firewalls (like zonealarm and the likes) on all the machines in the company. Surely not. He's maintaining one serious firewall running on one dedicated machine that connects the complete internal network to the internet.jens wrote:how should that work? A firewall needs to ask you about what traffic you allow and what traffic you don't allow... - I'm sure you got something wrong there mate...arke wrote:
...or a hardware firewall which is built into every router and many DSL modems and is much more reliable than any software firewall
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