Qube - first impression

2001-07-31 Thread Dev Teelucksingh
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Or Botton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Subject: Qube - first impression > I've downloaded the installation file (830k or so), and installed. > After getting expanded to 3.8MB, I ran the system. > That thing looks good. Really, really, REALLY good. > Basicly: It looks like

Qube desktop environment website

2001-07-31 Thread Dev Teelucksingh
On Tue, 31 Jul 20010, Clarence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Subject: Re: Check this out : Qube desktop environment > Dev Teelucksingh wrote: >> Saw this on the FreeDOS website : >> Qube website is at http://www.interactivestudio.sk/ >> where you can download a DOS evaluation version. >> A scree

Re: Qube - first impression

2001-07-31 Thread Or Botton
Second impression: Qube has lots of an Eye-Candy feel for the interface. However, as they say, when checking a book, do not check only its cover. What got me so happy was NOT the implemented UI, or the (I admit) lousy internet connectivity interface, or the fact that there was no keyboard suppor

Re: Someone could be infected.

2001-07-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
>I have received virii consisting of HTML code inserted *after* the sender's >signature. >Tom, now that you have "unsubscribed" from the 161 KB message you got from >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] now probably has your address in >their files to send other virii to. I'll bet that the "unsu

Re: Check this out : Qube desktop environment

2001-07-31 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi folks, On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:15:20 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > Dev Teelucksingh wrote: >> Saw this on the FreeDOS website : >> Qube website is at http://www.interactivestudio.sk/ >> where you can download a DOS evaluation version. >> A screenshot is at http://www.interactivestudio.sk/i

Re: Check this out : Qube desktop environment

2001-07-31 Thread L.D. Best
Clarence, Just goes to show that [as I know all too well] NS sux sometimes. I had no problem at either URL with Arachne. First URL *is* a "blank page" with a single mapped graphic ... so if NS didn't show the graphic you'd end up seeing nothing. 2nd URL is decent sized pic. l.d. On Tue,

arachne-digest V1 #1602

2001-07-31 Thread Ray Andrews
Hi All, Two things: 1) Steve mentioned that he had heard of Ranish Partition Manager, but hadn't used it. I have, and I highly recomend it--not exactly friendly, but very powerful. I have used it to restore buggered partitions that PowerQuest's Partion Magic wouldn't even touch. 2) Every now

Re: Someone could be infected.

2001-07-31 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hello: I just recently wrote: > Anyone knowing the current location of Marc Ressl's web site, > please post. Found it! It is here: http://www.ressl.com.ar/netmail/index.html Ressl Engineering - NetMail Client NetMail 2.12 for DOS is still available for free download. BTW, there is now even

Re: Qube - first impression

2001-07-31 Thread Clarence Verge
J. J. Young wrote: > > G, it wants 15 bit or more color depth and faster than 66MHz. AGHHH, G, G. I second and third that emotion. Assumming my normal grumbly position here, may I make some comments that I hope Dev or Or will eventually forward to the strange person who produce

Re: Someone could be infected.

2001-07-31 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:40:08 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matter of fact, I believe Netscape 4.x has a function > where you specify a limit on e-mail length... say 50k. > Then any e-mail that's longer gets "top"ped, and you > can tell it whether you want to download the rest of

Re: Someone could be infected.

2001-07-31 Thread Steve
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Ron Clarke wrote: >If I type domain.net.au 110 [enter] > ... I get about 3 seconds of apparent connection, then, before I can > type user ... I am back at the DOS prompt again. It appears they've put a short time-out on the connection to make it difficult to type ma

Re: No one need be infected ...Re: Someone could be infecte

2001-07-31 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:54:03, Dale Mentzer wrote: > My local ISP just added spam and antivirus screening to our email and > it really works. It has stopped almost ALL spam. It is a service > called Brightmail (not sure of the URL). There is a link on my ISP's > main page (www.aristotle.net) where

Re: Cache snatching [was Re: Arachne image rendering problem

2001-07-31 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:58:36 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Bastiaan, > If you are looking for a particular file, you don't need Norton to sort > out by day/date/time in order to retrieve it. There are easier ways. > Hit backspace and use F7 to search for URL if you can't readily see it, > click on

Re: non-compliant png file?

2001-07-31 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:20:47 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > Bernie wrote: >> Clarence wrote: >> >The .BMP format is used because in its most rudimentary incarnation it >> >is the format the video cards use - simply a video memory dump. >> No it's not. A BMP file is twisted (and sick? ) since i

Re: Arachne image rendering problem

2001-07-31 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hi Jake: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:46:27 +0800, you wrote: > Your message was not sent off list. I am replying to the list. I had written: >> BTW, can you help point out to us any other >> interesting targets downrange which might not be as easily >> discernible as the more obvious ones that k

Re: Someone could be infected.

2001-07-31 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, Sam, On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:40:36 +, Ron Clarke wrote in reference to email viruses: > Sadly, my ISP that I use for mail finally told me that telnet is > forbidden to all except their own techs, so I was advised to just download > them and then delete them. What a novel idea ! the

Re: Qube - first impression

2001-07-31 Thread J. J. Young
G, it wants 15 bit or more color depth and faster than 66MHz. I'll get in touch and see if there's a Padua Peasant permutation. Jake

Re: Qube - first impression

2001-07-31 Thread Or Botton
Er... right. Sorry. :) http://www.interactivestudio.sk/evulation/qube/qube.zip Clarence Verge wrote: > Well, don't just sit there grinning like a Cheshire cat, give us a direct > download link because that page designer is a little short in the IQ dept. !

Re: Qube - first impression

2001-07-31 Thread Clarence Verge
Or Botton wrote: > >"Holy f*#king sh&t!" > > I'll give it some more test drives. So far, so great. :) Well, don't just sit there grinning like a Cheshire cat, give us a direct download link because that page designer is a little short in the IQ dept. ! - Clarence Verge -- - Help stamp out FA

Re: ££ English Pound sign ££

2001-07-31 Thread Laurie L Proud
>> Have you got a working Pound sigh in Arachne ? PC normaly is OK but >> just noticed the Pound sign isn't working in Arachne. >> Laurie > Hi Laurie, try Alt + 163 = £ > and please do not join the bloody Euro. > Regards, Bastiaan Thank you Bastiaan, ALT + 163 does indeed = £ but only u

Re: non-compliant png file?

2001-07-31 Thread Clarence Verge
Bernie wrote: > > Clarence wrote: > > >The .BMP format is used because in its most rudimentary incarnation it > >is the format the video cards use - simply a video memory dump. > > No it's not. A BMP file is twisted (and sick? ) since it's all > backwards. It starts at the lower right corner. Yo

Re: non-compliant png file?

2001-07-31 Thread J. J. Young
Bernie wrote: >But if you all think back a few months (or a year?) we've already gone over >this at some other site. That time it was also some sort of graph in PNG >format that got extremly strange in Arachne. And no, I still don't >understand it. That was me... looking at http://www.advfn.com (

Qube - first impression

2001-07-31 Thread Or Botton
I've downloaded the installation file (830k or so), and installed. After getting expanded to 3.8MB, I ran the system. The first words that came out of my mouth was something that sounded like: "Holy f*#king sh&t!" That thing looks good. Really, really, REALLY good. I strongly advise for those w

Re: Check this out : Qube desktop environment

2001-07-31 Thread Or Botton
Clarence Verge wrote: > > The first link gives me a totally blank page (in Netscape) > and the second crashes my Netscape. Looks like there is an attempt to put an image-map based menu in the main index file... for some reason, it doesnt view on Netscape 3.04g. Lets see how Netscape 6 and IE5 r

Re: non-compliant png file?

2001-07-31 Thread Bernie
Clarence wrote: >> I wonder if Michael will be abandoning BMP format >> when he changes to the cross-platform version. > >Although possible, it wouldn't make any sense to me. I have to agree. I do hope the conversion can be done inside core.exe instead. >The .BMP format is used because in its

Re: non-compliant png file?

2001-07-31 Thread Bernie
Sam H wrote: >The problem with Arachne's png to bmp converter should definitely be >reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if we should encounter more instances of >the same. Let's be on the lookout for such and let's make a note of >the problem URLs. I suggestsending such reports about png2bmp to me ins

Re: The Elks?

2001-07-31 Thread Bernie
Sam H wrote: >I never >heard of The Knights of the Pythias nor the Maccabees. I can't remember where but I've heard of the Maccabees somewhere. I think they are still around, or perhaps it was a refrence in some old movie. BTW: We have gone OT on an OT subject, time to remove it from the list pe

HAH @ Win2k! & Virii/Oh Canada

2001-07-31 Thread Wørm
This new virus (I don't think it's associated with the virus that's been on here) is an exploit of a major bug in Win2k servers, so it's using all their bandwidth to attack government sites (uses their bandwidth therefore). I'm glad someone finally pointed out that microsoft should *NOT* be makin

Re: Check this out : Qube desktop environment

2001-07-31 Thread Clarence Verge
Dev Teelucksingh wrote: > > Saw this on the FreeDOS website : > > Qube website is at http://www.interactivestudio.sk/ > where you can download a DOS evaluation version. > > A screenshot is at http://www.interactivestudio.sk/images/qubebig.gif This bodes not well. The first link gives me a tot

Re: Check this out : Qube desktop environment

2001-07-31 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:32:48 -0400, Dev Teelucksingh wrote: > Qube website is at http://www.interactivestudio.sk/ > where you can download a DOS evaluation version. > A screenshot is at http://www.interactivestudio.sk/images/qubebig.gif Very interesting. I went there and tried to download it.

Check this out : Qube desktop environment

2001-07-31 Thread Dev Teelucksingh
Saw this on the FreeDOS website : " Michal Stencl (of SEAL fame) has announced: ... Now, after 1 year developemnt of the first multiplaform desktop environment with internet support I decided to platform it to DOS. This system is called Qube. I would like to released it as the OpenSource and by t

Cache snatching [was Re: Arachne image rendering problem

2001-07-31 Thread L.D. Best
Bastiaan, If you are looking for a particular file, you don't need Norton to sort out by day/date/time in order to retrieve it. There are easier ways. Hit backspace and use F7 to search for URL if you can't readily see it, click on the history entry and you'll be at the desired page if it is st

Re: Arachne image rendering problem

2001-07-31 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:53:3 +0800, J. J. Young wrote: > Re: Sam's cache-size experiments, Opera recommends a 4-5Mb limit on > cache size, and I've noticed unreliability (in Opera)when the cache > gets too large. Good to know info. Thanks, Jake. I use Opera too on those occasions when I have to

Re: Arachne image rendering problem

2001-07-31 Thread J. J. Young
Glenn wrote: >On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:47:39 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > >> Adding to this wishlist: would be nice if files could be stored with >> their original name... so no 69378546.gif but pistol-1.gif. > >The problem with that is: >Many, many pages we visit on the net have files of the sa

Re: Re: Arachne image rendering problem

2001-07-31 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:56:56 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:47:39 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: >> Adding to this wishlist: would be nice if files could be stored with >> their original name... so no 69378546.gif but pistol-1.gif. > The problem with that is: > Many, many