Overflow sabotage sounds like a shot in the dark at a dime. It'd havta overflow the exact number of bytes, and do that on every version of dos that is running around, and figure out which divice drivers are where.
B'sides, it'd be a wonderful challenge. How hard would it be to come up with a solution to any sabotage compared to how hard it'd be to do that with a multi-tasking OS? I admit there are Kazinsky cases out there who'd get off on making trouble, but to think that they'd target arachne is grossly exagerating the importance of it and dos users. This kind of mind, while having the power of concentration we saw in Rainman, has a very naieve view of the world, and would pay no attention to Arachne whatever, even if he did see the tagline challenge. It is the great daemons, the Iluminati, the Jews, the materialist Heretics such minds focus on. No, Microsoft, and all it's billions, and the arrogance of it creating the world's richest man, that- is the kind of target these idiot savants home in on. Dos is History. But for pc users who've been at it for years, most of the stuff we care about is ascii text; phone numbers, eddies, money records, reports, personal letters, email like this. And to jeapordize that stuff for the sake of viewing pop-up SPAM seems awfully stupid. But as PT Barnum said, there's a sucker born everyminute. Still, I think there is a niche market of users who do not want to wait for network software to load, dont want the hassle of 'login' and 'password'. (If you have other people in your house you dont trust to leave your pc alone, you've got lots of more serious problems.) If you work with the cli you know how much faster it is than a gui, and we all know an ANSI scrollbar menu is just as fast, and no more difficult to learn than a true gui. Several of the Linux distros offer the ANSI color scrollbar interface, and they call it 'graphic'. I wont argue with them. There are some conventions emerging, like a green button that means to continue, and a red one that means go back or abort. Is that not easier than hitting a little X up in the corner of the screen? The GUI interface is like when they brought out the automatic transmission in the 50's. They looked very up to date, and were certainly easier for a greenhorn to use. But eventually, stick shifts came back cause they could get you out of trouble the slushpump wouldnt, and gave you much more efficient performance on a given set of hardware. I think the 'death of dos' is premature. I run on the net with Linux, but my own personal work, most of which is text, that sits on a dos drive. Still, I'd like sometimes to use Arachne, Nettamer, (and sometimes wonder if I couldnt resub to execpc to get qwkmail with commo). However, I havnt gotten arachne to work with lsppp. hmmm. wasnt that a thread here a while back? I can see where the evolving windoz servers will make it impossible to logon in dos anymore. But given the rapidly declining cost of long distance charges, wonder if a BBS network would again emerge because the BBS sysops, who each own their own machines, would not put up with spam on their servers. and control over sabotage software would be much more effective.
