Is that a crack about ISP nerds?

Honestly though, unless your ISP is using NAT or a proxy server, then you have a 
public IP add which is hanging out there for any jerk to ping at, or attempt to enter 
your backorifice or whatever. Your only recourse is a good firewall, which you already 
have done.

Regarding XP vs 2K, to tell you the truth my experience has been just the opposite. 
XP Pro has been rock-solid, while the 2K machine has been nothing but a pain (blue-screens, 
rebooting, leaving db files opened, etcetc). As much as I hate to admit it publicly, 
I like XP better, and it's not just because it's pretty. And I still use NT4 Server 
too, see no reason to replace something that's worked so well for 4-5 years.

Well, that's one man's opinion. Take it for what it's worth.

Alan






On Friday, September 6, 2002 at 12:24 pm, brian slater wrote:
>I have a question about What's 
>the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?:

>
>I heard a lot of bad things so far about XP, wont load software it doesnt like (has 
>to be M$ certified), it crashes and locks up badly and worst of all you give M$ 
control 
>over your PC
>
>I have upgrade from W98 after years of regular crashes and unreliable performance 
>(thank goodness for Norton System Works, you cannot be without it on W98)
>
>My observation so far is that W2K is far more stable and fault tolerant. It pretty 
>much works like a dream (excep for some bad software from the Multimedia industry 
>- very flaky stuff. But I did get a megacrash and it wiped out the OS. I had to 
buy 
>an additional harddrive and reinstall. This was cause by my trying to fit a Matrox 
>AGP video card (they didnt bother to say get the latest drivers before installation. 
> However, 2 weeks work down the drain (not data, which i revovered, but reinstallation 
>of apps)
>
>That aside, W2K does seem ok. Ive now got to go to great lengths to protect is from 
>the net. Get mozilla, and a different mailer, I am told. Ive got Norton Firewall, 
>Is it good enough. Ive had several backorifice attempts alarmed. Its strange that 
>these only occur in the wee small hours?  I suspect some little nerd in my ISP playing 
>around on the night shift. Do you agree?
>
>Grateful for your comments, to share is to support the common cause
>
>Brian
>

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