From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T04:35:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Linux & Windows

On 8/31/05, agemoagemo@yahoo.com <agemoagemo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you are doing web development, be aware that some
> > TCP/IP stack shims
> > (Zone Alarm, possibly Norton Antivirus) are very
> > badly behaved and do
> > not work at all with Ruby if they are installed.
> Can you explain this further? I'm running ZoneAlarm,
> and have had no problems running various socket-using
> ruby programs. (Well, no problems I wouldn't have
> still had without it, anyway.) Is it just certain
> things that don't work, or something else?

It's easier if you search, because I've never experienced it and I
stopped using ZoneAlarm years ago. There are some people who have bad
experiences with ZoneAlarm to the point that the standard question is
"Do you have ZoneAlarm installed? If so, uninstall it."

-austin
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