Loser-X

It was finally time for my beloved Sygate Personal Firewall to go.

As the pipes I have access to got fatter, Sygate's CPU utilisation was getting unacceptable, up to 15% sometimes.

It was also getting long in the tooth (Symantec stopped development after taking over. Damn you Symantec!). Now that's not necessarily a bad thing, but being a closed source application, the possibility of unpatched vulnerabilities is a concern.

And so, off on my quest. My criteria were simple.

1. Cheap, free is even better
2. Simple, as in "stop trying to do everything"
3. Perhaps most importantly, effective

Unfortunately effectiveness can only be judged by reviews and tests as I have neither the means nor the desire to see for myself.

The popular candidate would be Kerio, but I do not like that it does web filtering, or that it nags you to register when the full version trial is over.

Happily, I decided to give Comodo Personal Firewall another go.

I have tried it before, maybe a year ago. Back then it had the obnoxious "Comodo LaunchPad", and was bloody "chatty" with the warnings. Glad to see the LaunchPad is gone, and the sensitivity maybe tuned down somewhat.

Very nice, Comodo. Thanks.

I decided to hand optimise the default CSS that came with the CS 2.1 package, both for the mental exercise as well as to derive a less verbose set for me to customise any future CS projects from.

The totaled file size is reduced from 179 KB to 140 KB, not too impressive but I'm sharing it anyway in the hopes someone might find it useful.

Get it.

Note that there should be no changes at all, visually.

Update: Ran the files through CSSTidy, down to 103 KB.

Originally a design by sofaspud, adapted for Wordpress by Sadish which was used as the basis for the CS 2.1 adaptation.

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