I found another firewall this evening – something called Agnitum Outpost. The claims are very good, but my hour of testing has found it lacking. The interface is very clumsy (worse than Kerio’s) and a couple of times it came up with a dialog box with a reference to the configuration file, and an ok box to tick. After a machine hang all the configuration had vanished so I had to start again. And on a machine restart the program is not running in memory and protecting the pc from intruders,despite the “run on startup” and entries in the registry. The method of adding an application to the list of allowed programs is very clunky as half the time the application doesn’t appear in the list of applications spotted, and you have to use the browse function to go find the exe. Admittedly there is a wizard function, similar to Zonealarm that will let you config on an app by app basis, but again this seems to be pretty unreliable with not many options available at the moment of creating a rule. The auto update also crashed twice and when it did eventually download an 800kb patch file, it decided it was up-to-date. Stay clear of this program!
Month: March 2002
Interesting Music web page for Christian Rock
Well after a week or so on this new computer I have been experiencing locksups after about an hour with 100% cpu usage. Wasn’t sure whether it was the new email client, the firewall or being connected to the internet. Took Kerio firewall off the computer last night and it ran for over 12 hours with no problem, so after a brief flirtation – goodbye Kerio, welcome back ZoneAlarm
Postman delivered a very nice parcel of two Newsboys albums. I got Thrive which includes a song that starts off with loads of Whoo Hoo’s
Watched A Knights Tale on DVD last night and although I wasn’t looking forward to it, it was a really funny, refreshing film. The music is really bad, with “modern” rock throughout a medieval setting, but you can play “Spot the Parody” – well worth watching, and there are some funny deleted scenes on the DVD too!
Postman delivered a very nice parcel of two Newsboys albums. I got Thrive which includes a song that starts off with loads of Whoo Hoo’s
Watched A Knights Tale on DVD last night and although I wasn’t looking forward to it, it was a really funny, refreshing film. The music is really bad, with “modern” rock throughout a medieval setting, but you can play “Spot the Parody” – well worth watching, and there are some funny deleted scenes on the DVD too!
Have made contact with my flying bloke, so hopefully I’ll be posting some pictures from the skys above my house in the next couple of weeks!
Hard workout at the gym this morning, with an 8 minute run on the treadmill which left me shattered – still it’s 2 minutes more than previous so I’m getting there! Down to 12.5 stone now too!
Have made contact with my flying bloke, so hopefully I’ll be posting some pictures from the skys above my house in the next couple of weeks!
Hard workout at the gym this morning, with an 8 minute run on the treadmill which left me shattered – still it’s 2 minutes more than previous so I’m getting there! Down to 12.5 stone now too!
Installed my nice shiny Packard Bell Diamond 1200 scanner this evening and it works a treat. Dig a quick search on google to see what I could come up with and noticed that its actually a re-badged Mustek Bearpaw scanner and there were loads of people looking for the xp drivers, so a bit of digging, the drivers can be found at this address. Hope that is of use to someone!