arachne-digest Thursday, March 6 2003 Volume 01 : Number 2067
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:04:32 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recharging Old Laptop Batteries Hi all, I was given 2 very old laptops (Toshiba Satellite 1800s) that still function, but the batteries won't recharge. Everything else still works fine. I wanted to use the laptops for a demo of an old DOS database, but it's not so important that I'm eager to buy some new batteries. Does anybody have a brilliant scheme to shock old batteries back to life? Thanks, Bob - - ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:11:12 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Recharging Old Laptop Batteries On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:04:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I was given 2 very old laptops (Toshiba Satellite 1800s) that still > function, but the batteries won't recharge. Everything else still works > fine. > I wanted to use the laptops for a demo of an old DOS database, but it's > not so important that I'm eager to buy some new batteries. > Does anybody have a brilliant scheme to shock old batteries back to life? > Thanks, > Bob Shocking Ni-Cad batteries into a resurrectable condition is something I have done many times. I don't know if my way of doing it is the recommended method, but I do know that it works. Nobody ever recommended the method to me. It is just something I tried and I found out that it works. Since then I have met others who say they have made the same discovery on their own about how one can shock a Ni-Cad battery pack into a resurrectable condition. Here is how I do it: I shock the battery pack for a period of several seconds by using a power supply having about twice the voltage of the power-pack and capable of delivering at least twice the amperage of the recommended charging device. After doing that I hook up the battery pack to the recommended charging device. Then I make measurements to determine if charging current is flowing through the battery pack. If no charging current is flowing I shock the battery pack again. I repeat these procedures until I get the battery pack shocked back into a rechargeable condition. In some cases I have to increase the power of the initial shocks up to about 4 times the normal charging power. In most cases my efforts to resurrect Ni-Cad batteries are successful, but sometimes I find that they have been dead for too long and that their souls have already gone to heaven. I can't bring them back after that, not even if I convert to an alternative religion. In shocking Ni-Cad batteries back to life you want to take care to just zap the battery pack and not to fry it. If the battery pack starts getting very warm, then you are applying too much power for too much time. You should wear safety glasses and take other precautions when trying to shock a battery into a resurrectable condition. Too much power applied across the terminals of a battery can cause the battery to melt or even expode. Regards, Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:15:48 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recharging Old Laptop Batteries Thanks, Sam. I'll share your scheme with an engineer friend, who has a better chance of not blowing himself up when he puts the juice to the batteries. I'll let you know how it goes. Bob On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Shocking Ni-Cad batteries into a resurrectable condition is > something I have done many times. ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 03:28:45 -0500 (EST) From: ANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: binary kermit downloads... Hi all, I am trying to download a binary file using kermit from a unix server while logged into it in a shell session via telnet... I am using a win3.11 telnet client(QVT/Term) to shell into my ISP's unix server... so far so good until now where/when I want to download/upload a binary file... In my telnet client(QVT/Term) I can go into Kermit Transfer Mode with a "test" or "binary" option along a "directory" entry box(which default is my directory where my telnet client(QVT/Term) is on *my*(Win3.11) machine), a "file" entry box, a "bytes" entry box and a "message" entry box as well as a "disconnect" or "Shutdown" option... how are these options used in a zmodem/xmodem/ymodem unix telnet upload/download session?? my question is this: how do I download using this Kermit from my ISP's unix server which I only know uses sx, sz and sy proto's/commands?? do I type sz -b at the unix prompt? then go into kermit transfer mode and wait? are zmodem, xmodem, ymodem compatible or can they be made compatible with kermit transfer mode?? please help Andy on a lighter note; I attempted to e-mail the .bmp file in question and a .doc file to myself using Arachne 1.66 yet only the .bmp attachment(which was attached as attachment #1) got through(I didn't check them in the outbox*) yet in mime?uuencoded? gobbedy-gook printed out format rather than a separate distinguishable file-attachment... why is this? why did this happen? just curious... i've had success attaching .doc files to arachne e-mails in the past without them coming out printed out in mime?uuencoded? format *my copy of arachne 1.66 has gotten "buggy" lately with not only chopping off any attachments other than attachment #1 but also with *now* being unable to mail to multiple e-mail addresses... only the first one in the To: field Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:43:29 -0500 (EST) From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: binary kermit downloads... On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, ANDY wrote: > I am trying to download a binary file using kermit from a unix server > while logged into it in a shell session via telnet... I've never heard of that. Kermit, AFAIK, is a protocol for downloading over a dialup connection. > I am using a win3.11 telnet client(QVT/Term) to shell into my ISP's unix > server... so far so good until now where/when I want to download/upload a > binary file... > > In my telnet client(QVT/Term) I can go into Kermit Transfer Mode with a > "test" or "binary" option along a "directory" entry box(which default is > my directory where my telnet client(QVT/Term) is on *my*(Win3.11) machine), > a "file" entry box, a "bytes" entry box and a "message" entry box as well > as a "disconnect" or "Shutdown" option... how are these options used in a > zmodem/xmodem/ymodem unix telnet upload/download session?? As a rule, z, y, and xmodem are also protocols for file transfer over a dialup connection. However, I am aware of at least one client that can do x,y,zmodem over telnet. It's called ztelnet, and is for 'nix machines. > my question is this: how do I download using this Kermit from my ISP's > unix server which I only know uses sx, sz and sy proto's/commands?? Kermit is a totally unrelated to sz. sz/rz do zmodem, ymodem and xmodem transfers only. > do I type sz -b at the unix prompt? then go into kermit transfer mode and > wait? are zmodem, xmodem, ymodem compatible or can they be made compatible > with kermit transfer mode?? sz is able to send via x/y/zmodem. It is not able to send Kermit. Once sz is sending, your client must be able to invoke its own "rz" equivalent, which will save the file where you want it. Over dialup, I always used Telix for doing kermit/x/y/z, but once Delphi went telnet access only, kermit ability went by the wayside, and I had only the option of ztelnet for downloading binaries from there. You could read the thread where this was discussed a few months ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00898.html The pertinent part (by Howard) is this: "Zmodem-over-telnet is possible in DOS if you use a comm program that supports int14 or fossil on top of tcpport or rlfossil, but uploads may be a problem. I would recommend ftp for DOS if at all possible." That pretty much sums it up. x/y/zmodem and Kermit are all transfer/error correction protocols designed in the era of dialup. While it's *possible* to use them over tcp/ip, software to do so is rare. - -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:50:28 -0300 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: Hello (is the general's son traceable this time ?) Received again from the general's son but invoking a prestigious realm ex. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mohammed Abacha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:15 AM Subject: Hello. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could it SMTP be forged ? *************** To get a Netscape account this requisites are shown: > snip Signing in is easy! Sign into our network of sites with your Screen Name and Password. learn more. You have a Screen Name if you use: *America Online *Compuserve 2000 *AIM *Netscape > snip *************** I wonder if this kind of spam would be easily traceable as he/she has an email account used as "screen name" that would belong to a prestigious domain Does the "son" would have a dialup account with any of the above ? Or the spammer just used an AIM account (screen name) with false data ? Elliot ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #2067 ******************************
