On: How to blow up a server in one mouse click

[brk]

Why would you have to completely re-provision a machine just because you turned the firewall on?

I'm guessing maybe this is a VM?

Either way, I tend to prefer hardware firewalls over software firewalls for this reason ESPECIALLY on Windows. With a "real" firewall, you can generally maintain a connection to the firewall (if you've set it up right), and that way if you firewall off the wrong port and need to reverse something you can still do so.

[mkelly → brk]

Isn't that what he says?

"And this is a completely virtual machine, there's no keyboard, no big red switch, no physical reality with which to fix this."

[brk → mkelly]

Oops, yeah. I missed the "virtual" part. That's what I get for reading/commenting while on a conference call and working on a remote desktop session...