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Gaming Dilemma
Aloone_Jonez:
Hang on just a second, sorry I've not read your long posts but, if you use a hardware firewall running BSD the it's obviously going to be more secure than connecting your Windows box directly to the internet.
Lord C:
Well, I shoved another 80gb hard drive in and installed XP.
I expected Grub to mess up, which it did (Windows overwrote my MBR).
So I used a LiveCD to restore it etc....
Windows had decided it wasn't happy with the 80gb I had given it, and chose to overwrite another ext3 drive (which had all my downloads in it), which I wasn't happy about.
I then discover that my /home drive has also been fucked up.
Which had me livid!
I did perform a small backup before installing XP, so I have some of my files, luckily.
Damn I hate windows.
Looks like I have to reinstall Ubuntu tomorrow.
The thing I miss most is my bookmarks.html :( fs.
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My original post displayed the fact that I used cedega (formely WineX) to play one game, so I am very aware about the Cedega product, and of course I did try the game with it.
Also, playing a game in VMware is not an option.
Well, maybe Solitaire, but an online 1st person shooter MMORPG? Nah lol.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Hang on just a second, sorry I've not read your long posts but, if you use a hardware firewall running BSD the it's obviously going to be more secure than connecting your Windows box directly to the internet.
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Maybe....but the amount of increased security to can get by blocking all ports with an external device depends on what the boxes behind that device are doing. If your Windows box is not listening on any ports, then all you accomplish is redundancy, and increased complexity. You might gain an iota of security this way, but IMO, time is better spent on other aspects of security, like priveledge use, and process isolation.
Of course the occasional TCP stack vulnerability pops up from time to time, but these type of vulnerabilities generally affect every Operating System that run TCP/IP and they are extremely difficult to carry out. I've never heard of a case of remote code execution happening via a TCP vulnerability. Regardless of the operating system, you would want to apply a patch to any type of TCP exploit immediately anyway.
Interestingly enough, "software" firewalls, including the built in XP firewall will mitigate the vulnerability I linked to above.
Note, that my BSD box doesn't run any type of firewall. it does NAT for the two boxes connected to it and it freely forwards ports to the two machines conencted to it. Technically, requests to most of the lower ports 1-4999 do stop at my BSD box, but this is only because I don't want to pay for multiple public IP addresses from my ISP. If they offered multiple IP's for a cheaper price, I would have all of my machines directly connected to the net through my BSD box.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: Lord C ---Well, I shoved another 80gb hard drive in and installed XP.
I expected Grub to mess up, which it did (Windows overwrote my MBR).
So I used a LiveCD to restore it etc....
Windows had decided it wasn't happy with the 80gb I had given it, and chose to overwrite another ext3 drive (which had all my downloads in it), which I wasn't happy about.
I then discover that my /home drive has also been fucked up.
Which had me livid!
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That's fucked. Sorry to hear that. You have to be carefull when installing Windows on a machine with other OSs. I've installed Widnows on a machine that allready has BSD on it, and besides the automatic overwriting of the MBR, it didn't screw with my BSD slice.
Aloone_Jonez:
I think it somehow fucked the repartitioning up, so Windows thought it had the whole 80GB to play with. I have Vector Linux installed on a separate hardrive and I didn't modify the MBR on my main hard disk, instead of having a crappy menu when I start my PC, I just change the boot order on the bios to boot the slave before master and vice versa.
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