I’m beta testing Microsoft’s anti-virus/anti-spyware/firewall package. The firewall has actually been giving me problems lately. I thought it was my ISP’s DNS servers acting up again. I can do a speed test at Speak Easy and I get my entire bandwidth, 5mbps down and 384kbps up. However, when I attempt to visit websites, often times the connection will time out or half the page will load and then stop. I spoke to a friend who works at Time Warner and he checked on my connection and everything was fine on their end. He finally said to just check my firewall. Lo and behold, I turned it off and everything went back to normal. I posted about this on the MS OneCare newsgroups and I found one other person as well as a few others on another forum. It’s off for now, it isn’t like I run all kinda warez or scripts that will require the firewall. Plus, my router takes care of most things. So if you are running OneCare and are experiencing slow browsing, try to disable the firewall and see what happens.
Archive for December 6th, 2005
Other than feeling somewhat burnt out from everything in life, I have nothing new to report. At work I am just encountering numerous cases of spyware. Spyware is just beyind my imagination. It’s just turned into a nightmare for everyone, including me. I’m in some ways, getting sick of removing the same old crap. Even if it’s using a few software tools here and there, the constant continous boring overtune of it all is just getting to me, I think. I’m hoping I’m not burning myself out for my future. I still want to be a programmer. Anyhow, I’m sure many of us go through this burn out phase and get over it like most normal people do. I also have my eye on web design. I have a friend who runs Banners Mall and he makes $$$. Anyhow, hope all is well with you and yours. Until next time, mahalo!