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  • Re: Yes, You Need A Firewall On Linux - =?UTF-8?Q?Here=E2=80=99s?=Why And Which To Use

    From John Ames@commodorejohn@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Sep 2 09:59:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:37:26 -0500
    Harold Stevens <wookie@trixie.localdomain> wrote:

    If there's no network connectivity, your web search skills won't do
    much?

    Classic Catch-22: To access the net, you need to ... access the net.

    Mr Ivory Tower here clearly never dirtied his hands with a workplace
    reality. It reads like Milo Minderbinder in the novel.

    It is truly boggling that this requires explaining, let alone hand-
    holding through every step of reasoning it out o_O

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  • From Harold Stevens@wookie@aspen.localdomain to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Sep 2 12:59:29 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    In <20250902095956.000001c5@gmail.com> John Ames:

    [Snip...]

    It is truly boggling that this requires explaining,
    let alone hand-holding through every step of reasoning it out o_O

    It's the beauty of being able to ignore workplace reality:

    Catch-22 (2/10) Movie CLIP - It's an Egg (1970) HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0UV6ug96c0
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    I toss (404) GoogleGroup (404 http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/).
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