Of course they are, to you...you're a dude.

Good thought...I'm now reading through this MSDN article How to: Configure a Firewall...

Did you ever find a solution for this? I'm experiencing the same problem.

Hah! Right there with you. My 11yo girl is a proficient user, but much prefers art over computers. (The thing is, both my daughter and yours will use computers anyway,...

mike_walsh (10/6/2010)

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david_wendelken (10/6/2010)

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Being a provider should come before being a parent.

People...

mike_walsh (10/6/2010)

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I don't want any of my kids on computers until later (the sons or the daughter) 🙂 No darn cell phone either. Some days I wonder if Ted Kaczynski...

amenjonathan (10/6/2010)

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Sometimes we make issues where there isn't one? Why do we need more women in IT? Why do we need more men in cosmotology? Who cares if IT is...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/6/2010)

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Let doctors encourage people to that field. Let botanists encourage people there. As IT people, I look to encourage people into IT. I do focus...

Matt Cherwin (10/6/2010)

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While that potentially affects both sexes equally, to whatever extent men tend towards the geek culture more than women, that will be a proportionately larger barrier to entry...

amenjonathan (10/6/2010)

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To be honest, I don't think there's a problem concerning women in IT. In general, women are not as attracted to engineering related professions as are men. Vice versa...

craig.cannon (10/6/2010)

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JenMidnightDBA (10/6/2010)

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The quote is meant to convey how you have all kinds of people within a group: there are good men and bad, smart and dumb, fair and not....

craig.cannon (10/6/2010)

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JenMidnightDBA (10/6/2010)

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But men and women aren't that different. Or, to quote my mother, there are more differences within a gender than between the genders. The numbers tell...

WillC9999 (10/6/2010)

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It's really nice to be able to have such a frank and rational discussion on such an emotive topic.

Forum discussions on gender inequality often seem to descend rapidy into...

mike_walsh (10/6/2010)

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While I applaud the Women In Technology group and I have great working relationships with a lot of women who work in technology, I sometimes wonder if we actually...

Matt Cherwin (10/6/2010)

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I'm not sure I can agree with this - the nature of the field is geeky. That is: the desire to dive into the technology and ferret out...