Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 06:41:41PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> From what I understand, it's actually possible to have XP apply your
> timezone to a clock that's set to GMT. I'm not really sure how you do it
> though as I don't use XP.
kewl
> > (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does sneaking things with my POS
> > linksys FW open ports. Is there something like that in *?
>
> I'm afraid I don't know what "this UPnP thing" is, so I can't help you
> there. If you'd care to elaborate a bit maybe I can be more helpful.
[here is my rather vague guess]
"Universal Plug-n-Play" is this massively buggy service that XP runs
that tells firewalls: hey, open up these ports for a while. It partners
with the cheesy software firewall XP has to dynamically open ports junk
like Netmeeting.
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