New install questions

[russellhltn]

When connecting to the network, set to "Public". (I think there's also a checkbox to make all future connections "Public" as well. - check that.)

I thought the installation instructions told us to set the network to "Work". I believe that allows peer-to-peer sharing of printers, without the dangers of Public.

Not the one I just looked at. It didn't specify the setting at all.

I'm not sure as you can open up peer-to-peer sharing without opening up a big can of worms.

[davefranco]

Adobe Flash - do we really need this? You need this to show flash content properly on websites.

[russellhltn]

You need this to show flash content properly on websites.

Flash is built-in to Chrome and I believe Firefox. So you really only need to install Flash if you're using IE. I know Chrome is very good at self-updating and seems to work better with church websites. I think you're better off using Chrome as the default browser and not loading Flash as a separate program - whose history of self-updating is rather poor and the vulnerabilities are many.

That's the way I run my personal machines and have not run into any website I can't use.