arachne-digest Wednesday, June 6 2001 Volume 01 : Number 1545 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:15:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Monday meanderings Mel wrote: > My arachne website is still pulling down hits at around 100 each week, > that's a lot of potential users in a year! I still can't make up my mind > as to whether to carry on with it or not? Sorry Michael? Since you earlier asked I checked, there are around 5 hits per day to www.arachne.cz from your page. I think you should carry on. //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:22:33 +0200 From: "Lars Wigrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VIRUS Alert It's true that it takes guts to say Jesus :) but that "virus alert" is nothing but a hoax. It's old, too. It's at least a couple of years since I've heard of it for the first time. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:23:46 -0400 From: Joerg Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: something wrong at the roots? Hello! I made the big step from my P60 to a AMD-monster 850MHz with 20GB HD. With parts from the trash in my compstore it was only about 300 euro. First I was booting with a Mandrake CD-ROM 8.0 and formating the HD with ext2. All works fine but then I saw I need windows. I made a partition for win98, tryed to install it -and failed. Next try and windows formated the HD! Ok must be my mistake. I made the windowsinstall, windows works Linux was blowing in the wind. I put the Linux-CD back and with DiskDrake I made a Linux partition all works fine. After a time I made a drive d: with DiskDrake and formated it under Linux with FAT32. Under windows there was the drive but windows could not read it only after formating under windows. Ok long talking- now my question. With some disktools windows crash on the d: drive (eg. SequoiaView) and sometimes windows says there are errors in the bootsektor of d: ? -It can fix it with scandisk- Under Linux the disk looks like: /mnt/windows hda1 DOS c: /mnt/disk2 hda3 DOS d: / hda5 /swap hda6 /home hda7 Is there something wrong with that Partitontab ? Thanks for reading! regards Joerg -fare from installing his good old DRDOS- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 08:00:19 -0500 From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VIRUS Alert On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 01:47:20 +0100, Laurie L Proud wrote: > Hi Team! > The NASTIES are at it again. > PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE FOR WHOM YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS. > Thanks for taking time to read this and share it. Please excuse me, > if you get more than one copy of this, as you may be on more than one > of my lists. Perhaps you mean well, but this sort of "chain letter" warning is almost always a hoax. Please refrain from sending out this sort of broadcast virus warning. It doesn't help and often causes unecessary panic. If you use any form of Windows and get lots of email you do need to be vigilant about opening email attachments from unknown sources-- but there's no need to panic. Just be careful with your email. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:11:15 -0400 From: Terri FitzSimons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: re: VIRUS alert Laurie L Proud wrote, in part: > Hi Team! The NASTIES are at it again. PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE FOR WHOM YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS. Thanks for taking time to read this and share it. Please excuse me, if you get more than one copy of this, as you may be on more than one of my lists. Best wishes for abundant Success! Jan Slama (509) 922-3412 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ VIRUS WARNING: If you receive an email titled: "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa," and that there is NO Remedy for it at this time...< This a hoax. Check out www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html for details. best, Terri FitzSimons ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 08:10:06 -0500 From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hello List On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 20:07:28 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Lots of Canadian's have made significant contributions to contemporary >> popular music. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, all the members of The Band >> except Levon Helm, Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen and more recently >> Alanis Morrisette, and the Bare-Naked Ladies. >> The fact that these people are all Canadians doesn't seem very important >> to anyone except other Canadians. But you do have a right to feel >> proud. > I'll have to disagree with you on that point. <g> > I feel it of some importance that all of those you mentioned > (plus Celine Dion and Loreena McKennitt), are good friends to our north. Never heard of Loreena, but I do enjoy Celine. But I don't see much significance in the fact that lots of Canadian's have been sucessfull in the music business. What's significant is their music. I do understand rooting for the home team and I take special interest in music coming from the Detroit area--but I wouldn't expect that to matter much to someone from another area. So, being from another area, it doesn't mean much to me that all the above mentioned people are Canadians. What significance do you attach to it? Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:17:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VIRUS Alert On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Laurie L Proud wrote: > PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE FOR WHOM YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS. Any time you see that line, you can be assured it's a hoax or a pyramid scheme. Before passing ANY such e-mail on to ANYONE, check it out first. There are numerous hoax and virus sites. I generally use http://www.datafellows.com/virus-info/hoax/ (by F-prot) - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 08:19:24 -0500 From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hello List On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 21:59:42 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > I saw that you agree it's reasonable for us to acclaim those who hit > the "big" time, I'm just trying to explain why: > a) It seems to matter to us when one of our 22 million gets noticed among > the 240 million in English speaking North America (oops. I better reduce > our count by 6 million <g>) - just kidding Celine, and Captain Kirk ! <g> I understand, Clarence. Like I said, I take special notice of music acts from Detroit because I'm from the area. Incidently, I live just over the border in Michigan and have spent lots of time in Ontario. I admire Canada tremendously and it certainly has produced lots of great music that has made it to the big stage of international attention. Lots of reason to be proud. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 07:12:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Tony Butka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Linux Question? On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 01:38:58 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: >How does Linux compare as a server to OS/2 Warp Server for e-business? I am >surprised to see Warp Server for e-business mentioned on this list! Which boot >manager do you use? Well, I recently built a dual Celeron466/Abit BP6 server, and managed to finagle a copy of WSeB about a year ago at an OS/2 Tech event. The system has Boot Manager on it -- necessary to install OS/2, but I use the Linux loader to control which OS starts. They are very different beasts. The OS/2 Workplace Shell is a much more elegant and robust solution than Linux at this point, & while I'm only using the box to play with internet stuff, OS/2 scales with networking *much* better than LInux, and threads better as well. It should though, its expensive. What I really like about Linux is the manner in which html is really 'built in' to the operating system. With a dsl connection, the internet and documentation (html) are really seamlessly built into the operating system. A click and you're there, whether its a url or a document. The common point between the two operating systems is that the EMX runtime system for OS/2 allows porting of open source, and Linux has been a real boon to OS/2 users wanting the latest device drivers for stuff, not to mention Ghostscript, SANE, GIMP and a host of other goodies. Hope this helps, Tony Butka ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:23:16 +0300 From: Cristian Burneci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: You can use DOS as an Internet Gateway Mesajul original a fost trimis de "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> la data de Tue, 05 Jun 2001 01:38:56 EDT > > Is this entirely within DOS? What OS is the network card's ODI driver for? > "Shim" suggests linking to a connection from non-DOS, as a DOS box within OS/2 > or Windows. The ODI driver ensures data link inside a Novell Netware network. This is the equivalent of the Internet packet driver. Over it comes IPX/SPX. This is roughly the Novell equivalent of the Internet TCP/IP stack. (transport protocol). Personal Netware runs entirely under DOS. It is a peer-to-peer network, so your computer can be both server and client Support for Win 3.x is included. Those who want to give it a try, should install DR-DOS. PN is a part of it. Extensive documentation is supplied within the DR-DOS help system. Odipkt allows DOS , Win 3.x internet applications and the Novell client to use the same network card Cristian Burneci DHP Technology SRL Bucharest, Romania ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:40:10 -0900 (PDT) From: Howard Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arachne dying, lynx in good health? I got a lot of responses to the following when I sent it to the survpc list, so it seemed reasonable to send it to the original as well: - ------------------------ Do others have the feeling that arachne is starting its death stroll these days, because of the frustration of one or 2 authors trying to keep up with all the rapidly increasing amount of nutty web page designs, languages, tools, and big-company specific do-dads? The result is that, while arachne is great at what it does, it is increasingly ineffective at dealing with more and more sites, filled with real audio streaming something or other, graphic hot spots, etc. etc. Probably modern, highlevel html source editors make html authors not even know how to write simple, text-based coded. Instead, necessary text is all put in GIFs, basic parts of the page are automatically rendered, unnecessarily in XMP, TCL, dynamic cgi-scripts etc. etc. etc. Strangely, the old Unix standby lynx still seems to be able to give a decent rendering to most of the crazy new types of pages. Perhaps this is because there are a lot more people maintaining lynx, it is such a traditional part of all types of Unix, etc. Really too bad, if true. - --------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 19:50:40 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VIRUS Alert On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 01:47:20 +0100, Laurie L Proud wrote: > Hi Team! > The NASTIES are at it again. > PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE FOR WHOM YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS. > Thanks for taking time to read this and share it. Please excuse me, > if you get more than one copy of this, as you may be on more than one > of my lists. > Best wishes for abundant Success! > Jan Slama > (509) 922-3412 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > VIRUS WARNING: > If you receive an email titled: > "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" <snipped "false" warning> Please, please, PLEASE...... Go here FIRST whenever you get a "virus warning". http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html This exact "warning" is revieled as a hoax on this page. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jesus-hoax.html (BTW, it's not new. This hoax has been around since May 15, 1999) - -- 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, 06 Jun 2001 04:44:13 +0100 From: "Laurie L Proud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Hotlist Help Hi All, After adding several links to my hotlist today..I realised what a cluttered mixed up mess it was. I have tried to sort it out without success. I am having trouble finding the instructions for the hotlist in the help files. i.e how to use it. My hotlist manager does not do anything with the URLS in the existing hotlist. Do I have to print the file and enter them all in again manualy I'm sure I'm missing something but I haven't done it before. Thank-you for your help. Laurie - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 02:43:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: The idiocy that surpasseth all understanding (snip) BTW, after having edited the offending message file by deleting almost all of the muliple recipients' email addresses I was able to view the message within InSight and all of the other message files as well. As a result of the experience described above I have discovered that there is some limit as to the number of multiple recipients that InSight can handle in a CNM file. I haven't yet conducted any experiments to determine what the limit is. Has anyone else yet experienced a problem with a CNM file having too many multiple recipients listed? If not, then look for such a CNM file if ever you should have a problem with viewing whatever is in your inbox. In the Windows world idiots abound. All the best, Sam Heywood, happily climbing the walls and bouncing around in a box without windows. (end of quote) One way to find out how many recipients Insight can handle in a CNM file is to artificially add or delete recipients to the message. This might possible require a text editor outside Arachne. Then see if the rest of the inbox is viewable. On that SULFNBK.EXE virus hoax, the sender may have thought it was for real, but attaching an HTML dupe, gif image, and MS-Word doc is all-too-frequent Windows idiocy, but I have seen some really computer-illiterate Windows users. They didn't know a byte from a KB from a MB from a GB, didn't know their hard drive capacity or modem speed, didn't know an internal modem from an external modem. Some people in the business of selling Windows computers are not too bright either, like the one who said the 386 and 486 were 16-bit machines. Some don't know how to install Windows 2000. Now I wonder if that "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" virus, mentioned in an alert message by Laurie Proud, is for real, erasing the hard drive, or if that is a hoax. I haven't received any SULFNBK.EXE warning messages, and only one regarding "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus", that one being on the Arachne list. SULFNBK.EXE file name is strange to me, I don't think I ever had a file by that name. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 05:39:51 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hotlist Help On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 04:44:13 +0100, Laurie L Proud wrote: > Hi All, > After adding several links to my hotlist today..I realised what a > cluttered mixed up mess it was. I have tried to sort it out without > success. I am having trouble finding the instructions for the hotlist > in the help files. i.e how to use it. > My hotlist manager does not do anything with the URLS in the existing > hotlist. Do I have to print the file and enter them all in again manualy > I'm sure I'm missing something but I haven't done it before. > Thank-you for your help. > Laurie Hello Laurie: You could use the DOS SORT utility to sort the URL addresses in the hotlist in alphabetical order. I don't think that is what you would want to do. It would be nice if we could use the SORT utility to sort the title of the URLs in alphabetical order. Unfortunately we can't do that because the titles do not all begin in the same column. If you want to sort your hotlist the way you want, then I think you will have to do it manually by using a text editor. This is a tedious and time consuming chore. There is no need to have your hotlist sorted in any special way in order to quickly find a particular entry. While viewing your hotlist just press F7 and enter the search word or phrase. Then Arachne will instantly highlight the hotlist entry containing the search term. Because of Arachne's excellent built-in search feature which I can invoke simply by pressing F7, I find absolutely no need to sort my hotlist. Regards, Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #1545 ******************************
