Inquiring Minds!

[5030]

At least you can spell or at least know how to use spellcheck. That's something to be proud of. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[flwiii]

I second the ZoneAlarm, but have to ask, do you regularly update your virus description files from Symantec?

I find a lot of people install a virus scanner and assume that is all they ever need to do with it. It requires regular updates (usually weekly) to keep it prepared for the latest bugs running loose. Depending also, on whether you purchased the scanner separately or it came with your PC, it has either a 90 day subscription or 1 year subscription that will also have to be renewed each year in order for it to update its descriptor files so that it can recognize the newest viruses etc. Once the subscription lapses, it is only as good as its last update.

I use Norton Antivirus to watch the inbound and ZoneAlarm to watch inbound and outbound requests that are not initiated by me and a router to act as a small firewall between me and the nasty underbelly of the NET.

 

[flwiii]

I have to say that I see most all points made here have validity. I think it is a combination of all of these that is creating the problems we will have in future generations.

Even though "too much work may make Jack a dull boy" the reverse is also true, "too much play makes Jack an unsuccessful boy".

Home is where the value of work should be taught not the school system. We should put less emphasis on the almighty dollar when we equate success. And maybe, just maybe, having everything you ever wanted within easy reach is not the real road to happiness but the road to low self-esteem and lack luster ambition.

 

[WhyNot]

I am 25 and agree with what is being said here. In 7th and 8th grade we had to switch between wood shop and home economic's (yeah I know) /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif. And then when I went to H.S. I had all college prep courses until my junior year when the vo-tech offered a course on telecommunications and I must say I learned more in a month for 4 hour's a day then I did in a year in those college prep courses. Went and took the test for the phone company before I even had my high school deploma and was hired shortly after. Vo-tech and my working on farm's since I was 13 gave me the ability to troubleshoot in the real world and in my opinion that is where it all start's. Now I can be hooking a pole running a transmission test in the morning and on my laptop working on a OC-192 ring in the afternoon. I make more money that I thought possible for a farm boy with great benefit's and such while a lot of my friend's are trying to pay of their college loan's on min. wage and bouncing from job to job. I'm not nocking college but it just was not for me. I do know that the few out there working toward's their respective trade licenses will be able to demand a high $ for the service because who else is going to do it?

 

[SkyPup]

Inquiring minds know that education is a life long process of self-teaching, unfortunatley too many give up way too early or never have a proper mentor to guide them through the process.