Sometimes there's no

Shaggy — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:50:13 +0000

Sometimes there's no substitute to a 'get-out-of-the-way simple' text editor. People still carry around pocket knives, even though chainsaws have been available for generations!

Cheers,
Shaggy.

I have used NetBeans, and I

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:15:43 +0000

I have used NetBeans, and I still use gEdit.

Vim??? GEdit??? Are you

COSSOFT — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:07:46 +0000

Vim??? GEdit??? Are you people joking? They used those to make punched cards during WW2.
You should be looking at a rounded IDE like NetBeans. It allows you to develop anything that you can think of, but the interface might seem a little intimidating at first. Play around for a while and you'll see the benefits if using an IDE over an editor...

When I installed my first

jlhaslip — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:22:27 +0000

When I installed my first copy of Ubuntu, I spent more than a few anxious hours on the Interwebz looking for Anti-virus software for it. Figured out pretty quick that it really was not required. No problem in a couple of years now. Glad to be rid of the Window$ OS. I'll not be looking back.

I don't have any firewall or

Renegade — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:16:07 +0000

I don't have any firewall or anti virus software on my GNU/Linux box either. Only have them installed on my Windows machines.

ok thanks. Let me know if

greg — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:50:37 +0000

ok thanks. Let me know if you ever get hacked

and, congrats on your thousandth post!

If you go through a gateway,

pr0gr4mm3r — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:19:15 +0000

If you go through a gateway, then you don't need a firewall on your local computer. You only need one on a computer that is exposed to the Internet.

I don't have one, and I don't even have anti-virus.

So, how come no-one has

greg — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:08:52 +0000

So, how come no-one has stated "you don't need a firewall"

No-one has actually said they don't use one, and I'm beginning to feel like it's not needed. (In Linux only it has to be noted)

What I'm getting at is, the

pr0gr4mm3r — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:43:55 +0000

What I'm getting at is, the chance of someone actually scanning my IP and ports is slim

When you are behind a router, the chances are 0, unless you manually opened a port.

That's true with most

greg — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:36:50 +0000

That's true with most scenarios though. As even if you are connected directly to the internet, any hacker attempt that might get incoming access still needs software installed with outgoing access. Or at the least anything they hacked, exploits or vulnerable software, would need root surely?

What I'm getting at is, the chance of someone actually scanning my IP and ports is slim, finding one open or brutable is even less likely if I am stealthed. Then with the added protection of requirement of root, surely I'm as protected as I was on XP with a firewall (supposedly) protecting all the ports that a win machine has available?