Direct Network of 2 MACS?

[Bob Cole]

I see both sides of the issue. Just want to point out, though, that disconnecting will not save you from disaster, if you forget the one most important principal of earning your living with computers:

“It might break at the worst possible moment, so make sure you have a worst-case scenario in place.”

The Internet is probably not the greatest source of potential disaster, and it is incredibly helpful to productivity. Even though I have other computers which I could use to access the Internet, I find it useful to have online access on the Mac to music libraries, Google (those lower-third name spell checks), software updates, etc. On both PCs and Macs, using firewalls, “safe Interneting,” and common sense, I’ve had no debilitating Internet viruses in many years. On the other hand, I’ve had hard drives fail, and a virus has indeed brought a PC NLE to a halt (when I used a floppy disk from another editor, which had a virus).

If I had a life-or-death, mission-critical business, I’d probably disconnect. But I’d do a lot of other things first, like daily full backups, etc. And DON’T UPDATE your software until the guinea pigs have checked it out.

Bob C