Fw: Camera

2001-01-14 Thread L.D. Best
Latest Miscrotf betaware ... - Forwarded message begin - http://www.disfon.org/tom/camera/camera1.html -- Forwarded message end -- -- Join B'FOR - B'mothers For Open Records http://www.b-for.org "> B'FOR web site [Associate members of triad also welcome; membership confidentia

Re: OT: A couple of Indian corrections

2001-01-14 Thread Steve
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > MOST aboriginal Americans in my state of Virginia (There are many here, and > I know a few of them) Well, what do I know since I only live on an Indian Reservation... or maybe it's a "Native American Reservation" now. > IMNSHO, the term Nativ

Re: OT: A couple of Indian corrections

2001-01-14 Thread Steve
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Robert Deering wrote: > > Navajo is spelled with a "j" not an "h." > > There was a period of time when the spelling "Navajo" was considered > insulting. Like many other things, this too has come around. Spell it > with a "j", pronounce it like "h" or, if you can, a very, ve

Re: OT: A couple of Indian corrections

2001-01-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:59:50 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> In WWII the military conducted a special recruitment effort to sign up >> some Native Ameicans of the Navaho Tribe. > Navajo is spelled with a "j" not an "h." > Also, i

Re: OT: A couple of Indian corrections

2001-01-14 Thread Robert Deering
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:59:50 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> In WWII the military conducted a special recruitment effort to sign up >> some Native Ameicans of the Navaho Tribe. > Navajo is spelled with a "j" not an "h." There was

OT: A couple of Indian corrections

2001-01-14 Thread Steve
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > In WWII the military conducted a special recruitment effort to sign up > some Native Ameicans of the Navaho Tribe. Navajo is spelled with a "j" not an "h." Also, it's not "Tribe" but "Nation," so the complete and correct designation is "Nava

Re: So, what else is new?

2001-01-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hello Jake: On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 0:18:34 +0800, J. J. Young wrote: > Sam wrote: >>> Sam, thinking of cartography (as opposed to cryptography), there >>> was a jokey news quiz on the radio recently which reported the >>> UK Ordnance Survey's puzzlement over the popularity of a house-name >>> in W

Re: big images ...grumble ...curse...

2001-01-14 Thread Steve
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Yep, confirmed. > 1.62 and 1.64 display it just fine. > 1.65, 1.66, 1.67, 1.68 and 1.69 all seem to have a width limit of 1200 Yet it displays just fine on Arachne-GGI 1.66. - Steve

Re: big images ...grumble ...curse...

2001-01-14 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 05:22:47 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:33:21 +0900, Kali McLaughlin wrote: >> Dear list: >> After fights at every step getting a colour image out of Protel >> schematic editor, the final disappointment was that Arachne wont display >> either the bmp (t

Re: So, what else is new?

2001-01-14 Thread Clarence Verge
Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > > Hello Arachnids: > > Please go here: http://www.johnsux.f2s.com/htmlcrypt > Then view source (F6) > Really weird stuff. Sam, the URL says it all: johnsux. - Clarence Verge -- - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ --

Re: So, what else is new?

2001-01-14 Thread J. J. Young
Sam wrote: >> Sam, thinking of cartography (as opposed to cryptography), there >> was a jokey news quiz on the radio recently which reported the >> UK Ordnance Survey's puzzlement over the popularity of a house-name >> in Wales. It turned out to be Welsh for "Beware of the dog". > >Does the dog j

Re: Old soundcards

2001-01-14 Thread J. J. Young
Neil wrote: >Most of the functions I was interested in worked - wave audio, CD audio >link, FM / midi synth, but didn't bother with the joystick or recording >functions - guess they should work ok with these generic drivers. Sound >quality was crappy, but you get what you pay for! (In this case,

Re: So, what else is new?

2001-01-14 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:56:21 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Hello Arachnids: > Please go here: http://www.johnsux.f2s.com/htmlcrypt. > Then view source (F6) > Really weird stuff. > Does anyone understand the concept of how this page works? > Please do not post to the list a lengthy disserta

Is it just me ?

2001-01-14 Thread L.D. Best
Have any of the 1.69 users noticed something about EXE attachments that I noticed when I came up against the hybris variant? Arachne did *not* make the temp file an EXE !!! The attachment I got was one of those was a random letter sequence as the name ... aabbccdd.exe But in the TEMP directory

http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/hybris.shtml

2001-01-14 Thread L.D. Best
Aha ... it seems that Snow White is just another form of the Hybris worm. This is a scary piece of programming. To read how complex, go to URL in subject. l.d. -- Join B'FOR - B'mothers For Open Records http://www.b-for.org "> B'FOR web site [Associate members of triad also welcome; membership

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1411

2001-01-14 Thread Michael Polak
> Arachne-ggi actually runs on top of X... or I think more > accurately, behaves as an interface to display an svga program > on top of X. I'm not that well up on exactly what ggi is doing, > but when you run an 800x600 Arachne-ggi in X, you stay in X. arachne-ggi is standalone binary, linked

ISA VLB and PCI

2001-01-14 Thread Neil Smith
>Don't PCI motherboards have only two or three slots as PCI slots and the rest ISA slots? No, that's VLB - the slots are connected directly to the cpu and aren't 'buffered' so they're limited to 2 or 3 slots max, usually running only up to 33mhz for electrical stability. Rest *will* be ISA slots,

Old soundcards

2001-01-14 Thread Neil Smith
I have just put a couple of noname sound cards in 486 machines. They were claimed to be plug and play, and this turned out to be true. The 486's didn't have pnp bios-es, but you can search the internet for the 'ISAPnP' tools (an intel utility) which are bundled with older creative cards. This allo

Re: So, what else is new?

2001-01-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:16:53 +0800, J. J. Young wrote: > Sam wrote: >> Hello Arachnids: >> Please go here: http://www.johnsux.f2s.com/ [altered] >> Then view source (F6) >> Really weird stuff. >> Does anyone understand the concept of how this page works? > -- Yes, but its only purpose appears

Re: So, what else is new?

2001-01-14 Thread J. J. Young
Sam wrote: >Hello Arachnids: > >Please go here: http://www.johnsux.f2s.com/ [altered] >Then view source (F6) >Really weird stuff. > >Does anyone understand the concept of how this page works? -- Yes, but its only purpose appears to be denying a view of a webpage's content from those without a

Re: Heads up Linux lovers

2001-01-14 Thread Steve
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hope you try icewm some day. On a 486, it's > noticeably faster than fvwm2. Very lean, very > stable. A wonderful example of the programmer's > art. I'm fairly certain I have. I think it was one of those things I installed once, looked at,

clearcache.dgi and newer versions of Arachne

2001-01-14 Thread Thomas Tabler
Dear Glenn: >Thanks for the info on fixing the "bug" in Arachne having to do >with the Arachne -o command. I noticed that the newer versions >cannot do this. O.K. perhaps for Sis who is a newbie and doesn't >like this feature, but maybe reason why I have been reluctant to >upgrade. The

Re: hy-somethingorother W95 worm

2001-01-14 Thread Bernie
Thomas Mueller wrote > Anybody know what Win32 application runs > non-text .scr files? It's a screensaver, it might even work in win 3.x //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/

Re: Arachne 169 setup help

2001-01-14 Thread Alejandro Lieber
On 11 Jan 01 at 11:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded and have been installing and setting up Arach169 and have > reached a problem. > I am using an external US Robotics 56K modem and can get it to dial out, > but it stops with the line: > > PPP line is down. Driver not installed. > >

Re: Linux lovers (Matrox)

2001-01-14 Thread JoergBartels
On 14 Jan, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:52:47 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hello Clarence, > >> No :( I can not use the Matrox with SVGAlib (1.4x) on 800x600 Hicolor. >> I think same prob. as for DOS ?. I read some people can run the Matrox >> with 1280 with SVGAl

Re: Linux lovers (Matrox)

2001-01-14 Thread Clarence Verge
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:52:47 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Clarence, > No :( I can not use the Matrox with SVGAlib (1.4x) on 800x600 Hicolor. > I think same prob. as for DOS ?. I read some people can run the Matrox > with 1280 with SVGAlib and VESA setting. I can run some emus wi

Re: big images ...grumble ...curse...

2001-01-14 Thread Clarence Verge
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:33:21 +0900, Kali McLaughlin wrote: > Dear list: > After fights at every step getting a colour image out of Protel > schematic editor, the final disappointment was that Arachne wont display > either the bmp (torn) the .gif (cropped) or the .png (torn) > The final image aft

Re: Last long OT Re: Heads up Linux lovers (Matrox)

2001-01-14 Thread JoergBartels
On 13 Jan, Clarence Verge wrote: > Steve wrote: >> >> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Bernie wrote: >> >> > For a more permanent fix I would suggest >> > getting a S3 card (the best supported by SVGAlib IIRC - and the brand >> > Michael is using). >> >> There are scores of different S3 cards. The S3 Vi

Re: Cache clearing suggestion

2001-01-14 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi Glenn, many thanks for this tip. Regards Joerg On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:13:50 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > You can "fix" that by editing mime.cfg > Look for this line: > file/clearcache.dgi |call $esystem\\dgi\\clr.bat $c $a $t > Add this to the end of the line: > \n arachne $eppp_init.

Re: hy-somethingorother W95 worm

2001-01-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
>Someone sent it to me, did a *very* expert insertion leaving fewer >header lines than normally even local mail has. > >Needless to say, being a DOSasaur has its benefits. I sent headers to >ISP and zipped up the worm with password protection. > >Anyone want to trash their own dozerware? Just wa

Re: More OT Re: Using Linux Arachne

2001-01-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
>Please, better install RedHat or SuSE or an other "big" Linux. >I think a miro-Linux is nothing for real Unix testing. >Try to downsize a big Linux (I had a 300 MB mix of SuSE 6.2-7.0 >and it worked well). >Look- a NeXTstep 2 or so was around 200 MB and I think it was a >nice OS. > >regards Joerg

Re: update, Arachne169 setup help

2001-01-14 Thread Kali McLaughlin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello Clarence and Bernie, and anyone else who has an idea on why I can't >> get Arachne to connect to the Internet. Dear List: OK, it is time for my opinions and prejedices to be aired... I think the problem may be trashed PPP data. This happens a bit to

big images ...grumble ...curse...

2001-01-14 Thread Kali McLaughlin
Dear list: After fights at every step getting a colour image out of Protel schematic editor, the final disappointment was that Arachne wont display either the bmp (torn) the .gif (cropped) or the .png (torn) The final image after a weeks work was a 77Kb GIF with dimensions 1994 by 1341. It disp