Main > Main Forum

Advantage of cabinet with internet access?

Pages: << < (3/11) > >>

Fursphere:

Everyone complaining about windows updates, anti-virus consuming cpu cycles, etc...  STOP USING 10+ year old PCs!  lol   

Updating a ROM set "ON" my cabinet sucks.  I do it on my main pc, then copy it over the network.  I also use it for more than just a mame cabinet.  I have Steam games on it.  Some Origin games.  I use it as a Pandora jukebox, etc. 

PsychoAU:

Viruses and Malware don't just magically appear on a computer out of the blue.  If you know what you're doing and don't go browsing around some Russian warez site or something, then there is no real threat of malware.  Also don't install every shareware package with 10 toolbars. 

This thread is starting to give me flashbacks to the 90s when my high school teacher told everyone that AOL was a virus.

If you are smart enough to set up a MAME machine, you are smart enough to properly configure you OS and avoid malware without running anti-virus software at all.  And if you are thinking of wi-fi, then you already have the box behind a router.  Done and done.

Fursphere:


--- Quote from: PsychoAU on August 25, 2013, 08:02:29 pm ---
This thread is starting to give me flashbacks to the 90s when my high school teacher told everyone that AOL was a virus.


--- End quote ---

I understand the analogy you're making, but AOL might as well be a virus with unbelievably craptastic it is.   :lol  Everyday I hear about them still being in business I'm amazed.

UFO:


--- Quote from: Fursphere on August 25, 2013, 08:05:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: PsychoAU on August 25, 2013, 08:02:29 pm ---
This thread is starting to give me flashbacks to the 90s when my high school teacher told everyone that AOL was a virus.


--- End quote ---

I understand the analogy you're making, but AOL might as well be a virus with unbelievably craptastic it is.   :lol  Everyday I hear about them still being in business I'm amazed.

--- End quote ---

:))

Every time someone gives me an email address of @aol.com, I say "really?"

SORHP:

You could utilize a USB wireless card, mount a USB extension on the back of the cab, only plug it it when you need it, I remote into mine this way to update stuff under one username, and she'll under another username, works a charm

Pages: << < (3/11) > >>

Go to full version