This morning, I was expecting a Skype call. Ten minutes before, I started up my PC (we had an outage overnight). All was fine except Skype didn’t recognize the skype name of the person who was going to call me. Odd. So, I downloaded and installed Skype on the Mac, and it worked immediately.

On the one hand, this was probably a firewall (ZoneAlarm Pro) issue on my PC. On the other hand, I don’t seem to have firewall problems on my Mac. I don’t even know if I have a firewall on my Mac, which is how it should be. [Tags: mac macintosh skype]

By coincidence, in order to log onto the Harvard network, I’ve had to turn on my firewall, and thus have discovered where it lives on the Mac.

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