Michael Cash wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:50:56 +0900, The 2-Belo
> <the2belo@msd.biPOKPOKglobe.ne.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on
> going with:
>
>
>>Michael Cash and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:07:24 +0900, The 2-Belo
>>><the2belo@msd.biPOKPOKglobe.ne.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on
>>>going with:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Bryan Parker and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Michael Cash <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> said:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>For some strange reason, XP decided that it would take it upon itself
>>>>>>to re-enable the XP firewall. I took an axe to it again.
>>>>>
>>>>>Get a bigger axe.
>>>>
>>>><reagan>MISTER CASH, TEAR... DOWN... THIS... WALL!</reagan>
>>>
>>>I squirted some ether down the carburetor. Hit 'er again and see if
>>>she'll crank.
>>
>>She's responding now, but I'm immediately kicked off.
>
>
> XP firewall is giving me fits again. I had completely disabled it and
> everything worked great for a while. But when I downloaded and
> installed MS's design-fukkup-fix a few days ago it appears that part
> of the fix was to re-enable XP firewall and install a new component of
> it which wasn't even there the last time. I'm back to manually
> entering ports into the thing, and it is back to puking them up again
> a day or so later. I have no idea why. It will be Sunday before I have
> the time and energy to fart around with figuring out how to disable
> the damned thing again.

Ah, more well-designed microsoftware. Hope you don't waste your whole
Sunday trying to beat some sense into it.