"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:09evovk1cd33ir3c1rgmsp8vgtu5173ni9@4ax.com...
> 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.
>


Oh, Michael, Michael. I feel for you. I can't believe you are having so many
problems with your XP firewall. My  workd ftp (210 gigs) has been up with 45
users
for 2 months without going down. I wonder what you could be doing wrong.
Can't diss the MS stuff, it works great. It almost seems like it works on
autopilot or something.