So, some people who's opinions i value pretty highly saw that i'd started a blog and thought they would offer their constructive criticisms and what nots. They were appalled at some of the things I was telling you. "Anti-virus all the time? Hogwash!" "Firewalls at the PC level?! Flabbergasms!" And other such nonsensical words.
And they're right. sort of.
They're perspective is from the user who knows whats out there, where the threats come from, and what an infected PC looks and performs like. They recognize performance knocks of %4 and know precisely where and how to fix the problem- but I'm not writing for them. I'm writing for you. You mother of two working 60 hours a week in a job that never sees the inner workings of your talking box. For you 30 year old plumbing professional that could care less what timing your RAM chips use. You 14 yr old Bratz buying child of 'The Hills' who knows when the computer is on, when it's off, and when its not giving you what you want.
For instance. My own setup wouldn't work for many of you. The only machine I consistently watch out for is the one constantly connected to the internet doing downloads and surfing and hurting spammers feelings, but on that one i scan maybe 5 times every 3 days and its all automated. The other machines? Every week. At best.I never hear from those machines unless theres a problem or unless I'm doing patches to something. Firewalls? I monitor traffic in and out at two points along my network but certainly not at every machine. But then, My apartment looks and feels like a cave and I haven't seen the sun in 8 years.
For those of you who enjoy the interaction with other human beings and don't want to get bogged down in the muck as long as it takes to 'sense' when your computers might be running a tad off the mark thats great. The world needs bright smiley faces running the joint and calling the tech support cave when and if theres a problem. Because I so enjoy our conversations.
They raised a good point though. I should at least give a glimpse at how some other people do their builds to illustrate whats important to different people at different levels about the things I've been talking about. And so: the Advanced User Observations.
After I explained to them it was more an issue of audience selection than my regression to the old ways, we went back to our respective caves and farmed Kara for OP l00ts while pwning n000bs until the wee hours of the morning when I dropped into a nice static sleep after counting sheep. 1... 10... 11... 100...
zzz..
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