June 23 >>> June 29, 2007

August, 2003's logo. From the Sacramento, California Train Museum

Most of the other koi were content to swim about the pond...

06/29/2007, 0002

Friday 06/29/2007, 0001

Onesome: Optimize-- Okay, it's geek time: what do you use to optimize your computer experience? Is there a program or tool or piece of hardware that has made a difference for you? I'm with Shawn: switching the day to day stuff (email, web browsing, development work) over to Linux distros has helped in several ways.

Twosome: your-- firewall, is it a hardware or a software firewall? ...or is that something you leave to someone else to worry about? Hardware at the border, software on the Windows boxes...

Threesome: Firewall-- appliances and programs stop some stuff, but have you ever had to use a malware removal tool because something slipped in through email or from a web site? I've been lucky here at home, but I've had to help out a couple times at work a few years back when something blew in on email...

How about you? Let us know, over on The Back Porch...