Re: Firewall Locks Windows Version

I have pgadminIII running on WinXP with no problems. I am using Computer  Associates EZfirewall and have the WinXP
firewallturned off. I also 
 
had norton firewall at one time, an it worked with it, but I had to turn 
off the winxp firewall.

Art

Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> Stephen McConnell schrieb:
> 
>> No Tino, PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMING is an attitude.  I've been
>> programming since 1974, both Open Source AND Paid Programming.  For the
>> USAF, Private Industry and as an IBM Global Services Consultant and now
>> on my own personal Open Source Project.
> 
> ... yada yada...
> 
> 
> well well... there was no childish comment unless you started with the
> professinal programming in all caps. You use crappy OS and extend it
> with even crappier third party software and then moan when things
> start to get nasty ;) Its not Daves fault that gethostbyname() on
> windows uses DNS subroutine when it has to look up a simple IP
> address. Its also not the fault of Dave you have a strange configured
> "personal firewall". Its just not Daves business. The application
> works fine in the environment it was written for. There was
> a bugreport and a fix for using unix sockets - which was really an
> improvement.
> 
> I dont think adding a regex routine just to find out a shortcut
> for translating a literal string which means an IP-address
> is worth the effort - think that "professional programmers"
> take efficiency in account. And adding a bunch of code just
> for very very rare use cases for a function which should be
> provided by the OS is rarely effective.
> 
> I wonder if windows telnet implementation works differently. I really
> doubt it.
> 
> I'm sorry if I stepped on your feet.
> 
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