New on cable. Bash prompt name changed?

[Bruno Wolff III]

"Bill Polhemus" <bill at polhemus.cc> writes:

> For the life of me, I do not understand why anyone would hook their
> computer up directly to the cable (or dsl) modem rather than through a NAT
> router.

Some people trust the software running on their computers more than the
software running on a cable modem. Personally, I would never let a cable
modem connect directly to my internal network. I would always want a computer
I controlled acting as a firewall between it and my network.