arachne-digest Thursday, May 31 2001 Volume 01 : Number 1540 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:59:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Gregor J Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Do Ethernet cards come with packet drivers? Yes On Tue, 29 May 2001, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: | Sorry about that, it is the LNE100TX - EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card. | | Hope this helps. Hi, Curtis, yes it helps, but I don't have that card, unfortunately. I just looked on the Linksys web site, and hidden in the small print is a mention that that card does work in DOS! So, you should try to download the drivers for that card from here: http://www.linksys.com/download/ Carefull, there are 4 different versions of the LNE100TX. With any luck, there will be diagnostic and setup programs that run in DOS. It is like that for the (older) Linksys PCI cards that I have. Good Luck - -- Gregor J Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:28:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Where is DOJ when we need them? On Wed, 30 May 2001, Clarence Verge wrote: > L.D. Best wrote: > > > > MS is working on making a time worm legal and "industry wide standard" > > for software you thought you were *buying* ... > > I'd call that *excellent* news. I'm for it 100% !! > > Given the choice of a forced expensive upgrade or switching to a free > alternative, both requiring the same amount of personal effort, which one > do YOU think the majority will choose ? <G> Lazy victims will take the automatic upgrade with the automatic credit card charge. - Steve (now experiencing, like L.D., the lightning-fast world of cable-modem!!! :-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:23:47 +0000 From: "J. J. Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Virus hoax Due to hit June 1st. See: http://www.vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=257&page=3 ========================================================== As I reply to a query about this threat, I saw the following: Warning: your WIN.COM file is infected! It's true, I saw it on Oprah. The win.com file is actually a virus that is used to ruin and/or control all our lives. It slowly sucks the life force out of you putting it into your computer so that the virus can survive. It spawns itself continuously by creating blue screens, causing you to go out and buy the newest version of itself. This virus is very dangerous and is specifically designed to affect your bank accounts and maybe even your stock portfolios. DELETE THIS FILE AT ONCE!!! Regards, Jake ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:25:18 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hello List On Wed, 30 May 2001 1:22:45 +0800, J. J. Young wrote: > Hold your horses, I _think_ we've got a bit of transatlantic confusion here :-) > L.D. wrote: >> Welcome, Laurie!!! >> You have *no* idea how wonderful it feels for me to see the name of >> another fantastic female appear on the list. Being alone here, I've >> almost felt outnumbered at times! Ok, ladies (and the rest of the men for that matter), L.D. was brave enough to upload her photo. Who's next??? ;-) Come on now.... The men out number the women on the photo pages by 5:1 - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:30:43 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: They are only ONE On Tue, 29 May 2001 21:27:35 -0500, L.D. Best wrote: > Actually, we're not a bit "off plumb" either. We are simply deviants... > Arachne users are more than two standard deviations away from "the > average computer user" ... that's *deviant*! > Arachne users are probably at least one standard deviation above the > norm in intelligence too ... that's darn close to deviant. };> > l.d. > ==== Well, at least you *do* point-out that our "deviation from standard" is in the *above* direction when it comes to I.Q. ;-) (even if that deviation is in the downward direction when it comes to the computer hardware we use) <VBG> > On Tue, 29 May 2001 18:44:33 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> On Mon, 28 May 2001 22:09:08 +0200, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> G�nter wrote: >>>> Please check:http://home.nexgo.de/guebie/photo.htm >>> The question asked on the page is easily asnwered: >>> Because you are as crazy as the rest of us ;-) >> We're not actually crazy..... Just little bit "off plumb". ;-) > - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ > ------------------------------ - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:36:36 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Where is DOJ when we need them? On Wed, 30 May 2001 15:49:45 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > L.D. Best wrote: >> MS is working on making a time worm legal and "industry wide standard" >> for software you thought you were *buying* ... > I'd call that *excellent* news. I'm for it 100% !! > It appears that M$ doesn't realize that the stranglehold they have on the > world exists only because their victims are too lazy to move. > Given the choice of a forced expensive upgrade or switching to a free > alternative, both requiring the same amount of personal effort, which one > do YOU think the majority will choose ? <G> *I* think..... "The future belongs to Dos and Linux." (and those of us who know how to use them). - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 21:48:12 -0400 From: "Dev Teelucksingh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Packet driver for Linksys LNE100TX is available On Tue, 29 May 2001, "Curtis Matthiesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Subject: Re: Do Ethernet cards come with packet drivers? Yes > Sorry about that, it is the LNE100TX - EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card. I have this card on my DOS machine (the one I'm using right now!) and the packet driver is on the floppy that came with the card (in PKTDRV directory). You can download the latest set of LNE100TX drivers as a single file download (about 1.2 MB) at Linksys website. Dev Anand Teelucksingh Interesting DOS programs at http://www.opus.co.tt/dave Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://www.ttcsweb.org - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:56:21 -0000 From: "Curtis Matthiesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Packet driver for Linksys LNE100TX is available Ok, what line do I add to my autoexec.bat to get it working? Thanks for your help. Regards Curtis Matthiesen - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dev Teelucksingh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:48 AM Subject: Packet driver for Linksys LNE100TX is available > On Tue, 29 May 2001, "Curtis Matthiesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > Subject: Re: Do Ethernet cards come with packet drivers? Yes > > Sorry about that, it is the LNE100TX - EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card. > > I have this card on my DOS machine (the one I'm using right now!) > and the packet driver is on the floppy that came with the card > (in PKTDRV directory). > You can download the latest set of LNE100TX drivers as a > single file download (about 1.2 MB) at Linksys website. > > Dev Anand Teelucksingh > Interesting DOS programs at http://www.opus.co.tt/dave > Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://www.ttcsweb.org > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 02:43:13 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Where is DOJ when we need them? On Wed, 30 May 2001 12:51:15 -0500, L.D. Best wrote: > I'm still waiting for the anti-trust decision to be enforced against > MicroSoft. But the whole thing may be moot now ... > To get really sick to your stomach, to learn how your computer and > software will no longer be *your* computer and software, regardless of > how much you paid for it, read the article at: > http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2766529,00.html > MS is working on making a time worm legal and "industry wide standard" > for software you thought you were *buying* ... > If that's not an act of "domestic terrorism" I don't know what is. <snip> Victory belongs to Padua! Steady your mounts and hold the line! Roll the howitzer forward and load her up with cannister! We shall shatter to pieces the terrorist onslaught in a single blast! This shall be our command to fire: "deltree windows"! Samuel W. Heywood, USMOICRPOSRMC, KOP US Military Observer in Charge of Reporting on the Protocols of the Officers and Squires of the Royal Mounted Constabulary of the Kingdom of Padua. - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 03:19:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Internet morons force wake-up call (begin quote) As for accssing SCSI stuff ... some adapters may need to be tweaked in certain ways to handle some Linux stuff, IIRC And could you advise which device you have the CD-ROM set up as? You see, with all the SCSI adapters I've had, device addresses 0 and 1 are restricted to HDDs, and you must go to 2-6 for other types of devices. The "zip" drive can probably get away with being placed on a HDD address, since you *can* boot from them ... but the CD-ROM may not speak the right language and may need to set for a different address. l.d. ==== (end of quote) My CD-ROM SCSI ID is 2 (adjustable to anything from 0 to 7), Zip 250 SCSI ID is 5 (adjustable to 5 or 6). So SCSI Zip drive can't be bootable on SCSI card that only allows booting from SCSI ID 0, 1 or 2. I see newer SCSI cards don't have this restriction. As for why computer hangs when I try to mount the SCSI CD-ROM, I guess the NCR5380 Linux driver for the Trantor T130B SCSI is buggy. It's been variable in the past. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 03:19:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Internet morons force wake-up call (begin quote) In the last week or so I've noticed a new behavior on the part of 1.70r3 ... I have cfg set up for "safe" parallel downloads of images. I get a rather weird message on some pages [the page in the URL was visited for the first time today, yet I got it there] and a "soft lock" on page download. The "soft lock" can be broken by simply "terminating download"; with the page at the URL, and all others I can remember off hand, the page is then rendered correctly and no images are missing. So it would see that the problem is not *actually* with downloading an image. The message: Waiting for parallel image download to finish -30473 of - -30473 That's right, those are minus signs. http://actuate.com/templates/articleview.asp?Article_id=483 Anyone wants to try it and see what happens, be my guest. <G> l.d. - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ (end of quote) I remember once recently waiting for Arachne to finish a negative-sized download: http://www.polywell.com/products_2.html Waiting for parallel image download to finish ... (-29558 of -29558) L.D., read through that quoted-printable-encoded Web page, and check those long lines, especially around column 128. They're not coming through right, one character is being dropped. settings =3D'height=3D'+h+',width=3D'+w+',top=3D'+TopPosition+',left=3D'+LeftPosition+',scrollbars=3D'+scroll+',resizable' (missing ') <td colspan=3D"2"><a href=3D"/"><img src=3D"/navimages/home_logo.gif" width=3D"191" height=3D"53" border=3D"0"></a></td> missing space? <td colspan=3D"7"><nobr><a class=3D"menu" href=3D"javascript:void(0)" onMouseOver=3D"popUp('elMenu1',event)" onMouseOut=3D"po missing space? Down('elMenu1')"><img src=3D"/navimages/corporate.gif" width=3D"90" height=3D"19" border=3D"0"></a><a class=3Dmenu href=3D"java missing s cript:void(0)" onMouseOver=3D"popUp('elMenu2',event)" onMouseOut=3D"popDown('elMenu2')"><img src=3D"/navimages/products.gif" wi missing d th=3D"99" height=3D"19" border=3D"0"></a><a class=3D"menu" href=3D"javascript:void(0)" onMouseOver=3D"popUp('elMenu3',event)" o missing n? MouseOut=3D"popDown('elMenu3')"><img src=3D"/navimages/soultions.gif" width=3D"111" height=3D"19" border=3D"0"></a><a class=3D" missing m? enu" href=3D"javascript:void(0)" onMouseOver=3D"popUp('elMenu4',event)" onMouseOut=3D"popDown('elMenu4')"><img src=3D"/navimage /partners.gif" width=3D"108" height=3D"19" border=3D"0"></a><a class=3D"menu" href=3D"javascript:void(0)" onMouseOver=3D"popUp( elMenu5',event)" onMouseOut=3D"popDown('elMenu5')"><img src=3D"/navimages/support.gif" width=3D"102" height=3D"19" border=3D"0" </a></nobr></td> Some of those quoted-printable lines go beyond 128 characters. I hope you can read my comments past the end of these lines. It might perhaps not make any difference decoding and viewing the Web page in Arachne, since Arachne doesn't (yet) do Javascript. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:35:54 +0000 From: "J. J. Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Webmail OperaMail.com works as an alternative to MailAndNews.com and has the same "engine" though (at present, at least) _no_ JavaScript, which isn't commented-out at MailAndNews, requiring editing of every page by an A-user at M&N. Mail.com also works, but the pages are more bloated. Both OperaMail and Mail.com offer forwarding of messages. Regards, Jake - -- Written by a user of Arachne: the Internet Survival Kit - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:58:48 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Internet morons force wake-up call On Thu, 31 May 2001 03:19:53 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: > (begin quote) > In the last week or so I've noticed a new behavior on the part of > 1.70r3 ... I have cfg set up for "safe" parallel downloads of images. Where do you find the setup option for "safe" parallel downloads of images? I looked for this option and I could not find it. > I get a rather weird message on some pages [the page in the URL was > visited for the first time today, yet I got it there] and a "soft > lock" on page download. The "soft lock" can be broken by simply > "terminating download"; with the page at the URL, and all others I can > remember off hand, the page is then rendered correctly and no images > are missing. So it would see that the problem is not *actually* with > downloading an image. > The message: Waiting for parallel image download to finish -30473 of > -30473 > That's right, those are minus signs. > http://actuate.com/templates/articleview.asp?Article_id=483 > Anyone wants to try it and see what happens, be my guest. <G> The above URL was fetched, rendered and displayed perfectly normally for me. Received no message "Waiting for parallel image download to finish..." I have received such messages on other URLs, but I don't remember if any numbers follow the message. > l.d. > -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ > (end of quote) > I remember once recently waiting for Arachne to finish a negative-sized > download: > http://www.polywell.com/products_2.html > Waiting for parallel image download to finish ... (-29558 of -29558) Also the above URL worked perfectly normally for me. No message about waiting for parallel image download to finish. <snip> Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 12:49:19 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: OT: The Attacks on GRC.COM Hello Arachnids: I know that none of us would ever even think about insulting a 13 year old kid. They really know how to get even with all the smart-ass sophisticated people. This from a very recent newsgroup post in alt.military.retired: ========================== Forwarded message begins ====================== http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm A fascinating read on a recent Destributed Denial of Service attack against GRC.COM by a 13 year old kid! Details what lead up to the attack, who did the attack, how the attack was weathered and how it was stopped. You'd think that with all of Steve Gibson's technical expertise that he'd have no problem getting ISPs and the FBI to help him out. Find out why this is *not* the case. Steve also presents a rather ominous future for the Internet as more and more Windows 2000 and Windows XP (coming soon) machines are deployed. That's right, the two most "secure" flavors of Windows out of the box present the most danger if used for DDOS attacks. Go read it (it's a tad long but very interesting) and make sure you get yourself firewalled (but don't use Black Ice Defender!). - -Jeff B. <snip> ========================== Forwarded message ends ======================== Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 20:15:24 +0200 From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Internet morons force wake-up call Ricsi wrote: > TM> otherwise, where do you find DOS packet driver? >there is also the crynwar (?spelling?) packetdriver collection crynwr IIRC, if you wonder how to pronounce it it's on their homepage http://www.crynwr.com/ (once more IIRC). //Bernie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 20:15:20 +0200 From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Internet morons force wake-up call L.D wrote: >Ethernet cards do NOT generally come with DOS packet drivers; as far as >I could find, *only* 3Com bothers. Ahem, Ethernet cards DO generally come with DOS packet drivers. I have four diffrent cards and they all had DOS drivers on the accompaning disks. Mind you, I didn't specifically look for those that had so either I'm very lucky (which I find unlikely) or almost all have DOS drivers. Getting Linux to find the cards is another thing altogether (but we have already gone over this - no point in another flame-war right Steven <g>). In case the cards manufactureror don't ship (or have) drivers, one of the more generic drivers might work. If we go after what I have bought: Buy the cheapest card you can find and you'll get the drivers ;-) //Bernie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:58:09 -0700 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: how do you swap Core.exe's with CSWAP.BAT et al, I answer this forwarded message on the list, because some other newbie might want the technique in the future: - ----- Forwarded message begin ----- From: "Thomas Tabler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Gregy: It seems that several List members swap core.exe's in the same Arachne installation using a batch file. How is this done? I use only one core.exe but keep a backup copy renamed core1.bak just in case some one asks a question specific to my original install. I moved back to 1.65 for regular use because of the probs with later Arachne versions. Latest Arachne version would take too much time to install {or re-install} right now. I already have four Arachne installations. Thomas Tabler - ------ Forwarded message end ------ Thomas, et al, I will not include/attach CSWAP.BAT, which I have sent to you by separate email attachment. Anyone else who wants it can privately email me and I'll send it. This is just a brief explanation: 1. MakeDir \ACORES\ on one of the partitions of a convenient HDD 2. Copy into \ACORES\ CORE166.EXE, CORE169.EXE, CORE170.EXE from ....core.exe of the 1.66, 1.69, and 1.70r3 distributions. 3. Copy CSWAP.BAT into \ACORES\, also, as a convenient place to ....keep a safe copy. 4. Copy CSWAP.BAT into the \ARACHNE\ directory of whatever install ....you run. 5. After Arachne has launched, at whatever point you want to switch ....to using a different core.exe, you must ALT-E, then type "cswap XXX" ....to run CSWAP.BAT, then type "exit" and you will be returned to ....Arachne, now running the core.exe from the version you chose with ....the "XXX" commandline argument. ......gregy ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #1540 ******************************
