arachne-digest Saturday, March 4 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1023 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 21:31:21 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT new test of NS v3.01 timezone stamp.... Well, I'll be darned... set TZ=EST 05 worked. > Received: from pm2111.cisnet.com (pm2111.cisnet.com [204.179.144.111]) > by smtp.cisnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA05775 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:05:35 -0500 (EST) > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 21:19:27 -0500 > From: "GLENN W. MCCORKLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: none > X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: new test of NS v3.01 timezone stamp.... > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-UIDL: 7baf90aede968c30247d22f6f4db4027 > Status: RO > Let's see if I followed Clarence's instructions properly. - -- Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed. http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 05:46:35 +0200 From: Or Botton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Troubles with military service Michael Polak wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > > > Hello Michael: > > > > It is a great honor and a privilege for a citizen to be selected to serve in > > the forces that guard one's country and protect her ideals of freedom and > > liberty. It is most shameful and selfish for one to love his career and his > > academic pursuits more than he would love his own country. You can search This one was directed to Michael, but since I have also heard this one from so many people in my own country I just have to respond too. I like my country, and I like the people in here. And this is not the problem. The ideals is the problem. Serving and protection people may be honorable, but it is honorable only if this thing is done by CHOICE. If it is someone else, however, no matter if it is a person in a position of power, who decide for me that I will now grab a rifle and stand guard, then that person has a problem. Since I will not see any honor in that. Fact: I would do my best to fight the person who is trying to force me to do so. I am not "against my country". "The country", as I see it, is a group of people. I am helping that group of people by being a good citizen, by helping people in need, and generaly helping that group in many ways. Just because one of these ways doesnt include fighting in a war, doesnt mean that I am a "problematic element". This is my opinion. Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." - ----------------------------- http://members.xoom.com/dsdp/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:59:56 -0500 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Troubles with military service I have served this country (USA) in the Navy and am proud of it! I also think that everyone should willingly serve. Although I served four years on active duty, enlisting during the Korean War, and another 26 years in the reserve forces, I would willingly serve again if it should come to that. Any country needs a strong trained defense force. To be without one would be like a city or town without a police force. A city or town without a police force would soon be overrun by gangsters; a country without a strong defense force is vulnerable to the territorial ambitions of gangster leaders of other countries. Unfortunately, defense forces cannot be trained instantly, but must be trained and ready at any moment to engage an enemy. If there are enough volunteers to provide this trained force, then this there is no need for conscription, however, if there are not enough volunteers, or if the country is small, then conscription or universal military training is necessary so that there will be enough people trained and ready to engage the enemy. This country has had provisions for "conscientious objectors," those people who for religious reasons objected to bearing arms or taking a life, to serve in non-combatant roles. Frequently, the non-combatant role was service as a medic with front line troops. These heroic conscientious objectors repeatedly placed their lives on the line to save the lives of others in fulfillment of their obligations to this country. As President John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 23:58:53 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Troubles with military service On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:59:56 -0500, Roger Turk wrote: > I have served this country (USA) in the Navy and am proud of it! I also > think that everyone should willingly serve. Although I served four years on > active duty, enlisting during the Korean War, and another 26 years in the > reserve forces, I would willingly serve again if it should come to that. You make some very good points Roger. And I would not dare to say that your opinions are wrong. (in fact, I agree with most of them) But, let me ask you a simple question.... Do you willingly pay exactly the amount of taxes our IRS demands? Or are you pissed-off that you are forced to pay under threat of having your wages garnished (or going to prison), if you don't? Your first paragraph shows that you and I have the freedom that Michael (and millions of others around this world) _should_ have. The freedom to choose whether or not to serve. And if so, in what capacity we shall serve. Yes, when you enlisted .... the draft was in force. But, You chose to enlist of your own free-will. Try to look at this from the point of view of those who were drafted. They were forced to go whether they wanted to or not. Just as you and I are now being forced to pay our taxes. (whether or not we agree that the amount being demanded is our fair-share) The draft was no longer in force in 1978. I also chose to enlist of my own free-will. Like you, I would also willingly serve again. When "Desert Storm" broke-out, I made a call to the US-army to be sure that I was still within the age limit to enlist again. At age 40, I am now past the 35yr age limit to join the "regular army". But, rest assured. If needed, I'll join and serve in some other capacity. To reiterate, from my first post on this matter: After all is said and done, The most important freedom we have is...... "The freedom to choose ones' own destiny" Without it, we have NOTHING. - -- Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed. http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 01:36:38 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: LENGTH WARNING Re: Cache size Excuse? Moi? To paraphrase a rotten chain gang boss, in a Steve McQueen movies somewhere back in the dark ages of my past, What we have here is a failure to communicate! I think somebody here must work for the government. Where I grew up "item" inferred one, not a set signifying one. <G> And a file is a file is a file, unless you're in windoze and then I won't guarantee a darned thing. If I'd read this message before I just cleaned my cache -- and yes, there were a whole bunch of images since I'm trying to plan a trip to Washington DC and that involves maps and other goodies like that -- I'll bet I could have come up with more than 256 "items" in the cache. Note later inserted: Just for the fish [that's "hallibut"] I saved this to outbox, shelled out and did DIR on CACHE directory. I had 1,064 files in it, not counting the directory dots. I don't know that it's possible, since 256 x 3 permutations is still less than 1,064 files. Well, it was possible but ... After having spent more than 8 hours in the planning of my July trip to my nation's capital to march for a new civil rights issue, I had nothing better to do [while waiting for my errant youngest child to decide to come home] than to spend a few hours removubg "duplicates." These are the "rules" I followed: * Every HTT file which had a "matched" file was deleted, leaving only the HTM or appropriate graphics file. * Every JPG file which had a 'matched' BMP file was deleted. That left a total of 558 items which were in cache. Of these items, * There were 9 orphan HTT files -- no "matched" file of any sort. * There were 8 HTM files which lacked 'matched' HTT file. * There were 90 GIF files which lacked 'matched' HTT file. * There were 67 JPG files which had neither BMP nor HTT 'matched' files. [Note: If you notice those figures, it would seem to indicate that Arachne isn't too good at clearing out graphics files; I could understand the jpg getting "lost" but not the GIF files.] Even subtracting the 174 "abberant files" above, that leaves 384 "items" which were in the cache. Now, before anyone "goes off" on this, I decided to screw around with it because I *was* tired of all the web work I'd been doing and I figured it was as good a diversion as the Bridge game I usually play on the computer. Anyone who wants the file and feels masochistic can have it, but others *might* doubt your sanity. <G> However, I think all that work did point out a weakness -- the inability to properly clear graphic files from cache for some reason. [And many of the loose chains I find on my I:nternet drive start out with GIF code ... and yes I routinely check my drives, and the only one where I have to gather chains into files for screening & disposal is the I: drive, 1 out of 16 logical drives]. Of course, all this may be moot, if Michael can't find a way to take a computer with him into the military [except during basic training where one would be rather in the way]. l.d. P.S. I do have a heart ... I decided this message was long enough all by itself, so I didn't quote *any* of the message from Bernie. I just now almost burst out laughing. Here we are, talking about what could amount to well over 2Mbytes of HDD space taken up by cache items which may well be inaccessible, and I ran my first business on a computer that had two 320K FDDs and 256K total memory. <G> How things have changed .... };> l.d. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 02:46:38 -0500 From: "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT new test of NS v3.01 timezone stamp.... On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 21:31:21 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Well, I'll be darned... set TZ=EST 05 worked. > --- >> Let's see if I followed Clarence's instructions properly. Well, I'll excuse your doubts because I had to try it too before I believed it ! BTW, there is provision in the syntax for a followup string that takes care of the switch to/from DST somehow. I don't have the document available at this location, but I'd hazard a guess that it might be simply to add DST to the end. But I don't know if you have to take it off at the end of the month. BTW2, Your NS mail time was about 1 hour off. It would appear mine was also or it took an hour to make the trip. I was so pleased to get the timezone correct I didn't check the time ! Maybe it would be correct with DST flagged. More tomorrow. - Clarence Verge - -- Using Arachne 1.50b2 for a change. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:48:07 +0100 From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Important off topic! Hi Anyone out there please do me a favour: try to reach www.bebiposta.hu or try to ping. I'm working on this page and it seems to me that my isp is playing tricks with me. Please send results to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. Rebel Programozasi segedletek, hardware-software ismertetok: http://thot.banki.hu/doksi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 09:45:37 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) Subject: OT new test of NS v3.01 timezone stamp.... Hi "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CV> BTW, there is provision in the syntax for a followup string that CV> takes care of the switch to/from DST somehow. I don't have the CV> document available at this location, but I'd hazard a guess that CV> it might be simply to add DST to the end. But I don't know if you CV> have to take it off at the end of the month. No ... but it is possible that on some days the time may differ 1 hour to correct time, because the switch to daylight saving time is not done on egqal dates ... my TZ looks like this CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3 CET (GMT+1) in winter CEST (GMT+2) in summer (central eropean summer time) the 2 M commands say when it is switched back and forth. (but I don't know the exact meaning ...) BTW: the easiest setting is simply set tz=+0100 but you have to adjust that to DST manually .... CV> - Clarence Verge CU, Ricsi - -- Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.} - -=> Bisexuality - doubles your chances for a date <=- @ctzoffset ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:19:04 +0000 From: "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: DR-DOS 7.01 or 7.03 On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 00:32:40 +0100, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Subject: Re: DR-DOS 7.01 or 7.03 > I didn't actually have any "problems" with v7.03 > But, I found no "significant advantage" in comparing v7.03 to v7.01 > So, I still use v7.01 > (since it wasn't broken... I didn't fix it).<g> > Did I read somewhere that 7.03 had problems with its memory management, DPMI or whatever? Did 7.01 suffer the same problems, or would it be a better bet in terms of stability? Wondering, Ron. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 13:03:38 +0000 From: "Cristian Burneci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: arachne 1.60b1 Hello everyone! This morning I have downloaded Arachne 1.60b1 and I must say things had really been improved since 1.50 s.r.c. The mouse cursor doesn't flicker any more and a certain connection lag I was experiencing with the former releases has dissapeared almost entirely. Being a LAN user I was happy to use this new kind of setup which came with the appropriate packet driver for my network card. I had lost the capability to access the Internet from DOS since the installation of an Windows NT based network here (odipkt doesn't work any more). The packet driver that came with Arachne solved this problem. The only problem that appeared was the setup wizard offered no possibility to set up the correct IRQ and I/O address for the network adapter. Less experienced users may not realize why their connection wasn't working properly. The last for today concerning Arachne is for her to send this mail. :-] Best wishes Cristian Burneci - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 08:49:35 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: LENGTH WARNING Re: Cache size On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 01:36:38 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: - ---------------snip--------- > I just now almost burst out laughing. Here we are, talking about what > could amount to well over 2Mbytes of HDD space taken up by cache items > which may well be inaccessible, and I ran my first business on a computer > that had two 320K FDDs and 256K total memory. <G> > How things have changed .... };> l.d.....I've been laughing, too....remembering your "two rules of computing" given previously (well, maybe they weren't called that), and it has been fun to watch this thing go around.... BTW, my first "really nifty computer" (as opposed to just a "workhorse" computer, was an Epson Geneva...64K...CP/M, microtape drive, and external 320K, 3 1/2" floppy....and I loved it....and I still have it ...it doesn't work, and I'm not gonna waste the time going in and replacing all the internal Nicad batteries...but I just can't get rid of it.....and last week my ISP Tech and I were talking and he said we hadn't progressed too much, and I had just said that I didn't have enough zip100 disks, and we both broke out laughing at the same time, cause that IS hilarious.... ........gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:36:32 +0100 (CET) From: Cliff Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Troubles with military service On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 some message from Michael Polak appeared before me saying, >I think that compulsory military service should be outlawed in all >countries worldwide. I am absolutely _not interested_ in serving in any >army of any country in the world, but Czech laws give me very little choice, >and "alternative service" is kind of punishment for people who refuse >to go to the army anyway. I'm glad the netherlands already dumped military service ;) - -- Met vriendelijke groet, Cliff Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:08:05 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: LENGTH WARNING Re: Cache size On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 01:36:38 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > [Note: If you notice those figures, it would seem to indicate that > Arachne isn't too good at clearing out graphics files; I could > understand the jpg getting "lost" but not the GIF files.] Have you had a chance yet to look at this file? http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/arcncach.txt It _should_ explain-away any confusion.<g> If something is not clear..... send any questions you might have to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <vbg> <snip> > I just now almost burst out laughing. Here we are, talking about what > could amount to well over 2Mbytes of HDD space taken up by cache items > which may well be inaccessible, and I ran my first business on a computer > that had two 320K FDDs and 256K total memory. <G> > How things have changed .... };> Yes, times most certainly have changed. And how many here can remember the days of the "NCR 315"? I bought one for 650 bucks in 1977. (still have some of the parts around here. [complete with all manuals]) http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/images/ncr315-1.jpg - -- Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed. http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 23:25:18 +0000 From: Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Troubles with military service I've written to my MP (in England) and d�put� (in France) about military service and armies... I would like the part of the taxes that I pay to these countries, that is normally used for maintaining armies, to be dedicated to peaceful uses instead. We already have conscience objection from conscription; why can't we object to the use of our taxes for military purposes as well? WRT volunteering in the US Forces, since there are so many readers from the US... The army has played a very minor role in defending your country in recent times. The prime elements in maintaining security have been the size of your country, its economic power, its role as a leader in technical and social change. That's why the "cold" war was won without a battle, like all good wars. Charles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:05:18 -0500 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT new test of NS v3.01 timezone stamp.... Richard Menedetter wrote: > > my TZ looks like this > CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3 > > CET (GMT+1) in winter > CEST (GMT+2) in summer (central eropean summer time) > the 2 M commands say when it is switched back and forth. > (but I don't know the exact meaning ...) > > BTW: the easiest setting is simply set tz=+0100 > but you have to adjust that to DST manually .... Hi Richard; I'm guessing that's for Win95 ? I tried: Set TZ=-0500 without any luck in W3.1. It would appear for most cases that the 3 letter code for daylight savings time is simply your regular code with the middle "S" changed to "D" so in my case that would be SET TZ=EST 05 EDT (spaces optional). Others may be more complex. It isn't clear if the DST specification actually causes any calculation to be performed. It is also possible that the time offset is not in integer hours so that may be specified as 03:30 for example for Newfoundland. Having a proper search string, it is now possible to find many documents about how to set the Timestamp. Try a GOOGLE search for SET TZ=aaahhbbb. My source was the 4th and 5th that will be found by this method. The first found (cached) is actually much better. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 22:14:40 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Troubles with military service On Fri, 03 Mar 2000 23:25:18 +0000, Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton wrote: > I've written to my MP (in England) and d�put� (in France) about military > service and armies... I would like the part of the taxes that I pay to > these countries, that is normally used for maintaining armies, to be > dedicated to peaceful uses instead. We already have conscience objection > from conscription; why can't we object to the use of our taxes for > military purposes as well? This is something you most certainly may do. See the famous essay by Henry David Thoreau, "On Civil Disobedience". <snip> Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #1023 ******************************
