Re: please block 'a-list'.....

2003-08-20 Thread Cristian Burneci
All viruses originate from the same machine. Probably one with a fast connection. This is what i call "The machine gun" effect of a virused computer with a fast connection. I've experienced the same effect when a friend of mine from USA with a cable connection got infected by Klez. He left the hou

One of your computers floods a discussion list with Sobig,F virus

2003-08-20 Thread Cristian Burneci
itself. Hoping that someone will there will disinfect the respective computer, I wish you all the best Cristian Burneci Bucharest, Romania

Re: New Twist on Viruses

2003-08-19 Thread Cristian Burneci
-MailScanner: Found to be clean > > Of course, the mailer was, Lookout! Express. > > Roger Turk > Tucson, Arizona -- Cristian Burneci

Re: Thank you! and other such messages on the list

2003-08-19 Thread Cristian Burneci
WARNING! All these are the [EMAIL PROTECTED] worm. All messages originate from the same host: GW-CALLCENTER.AIRCALL.AT [212.16.44.41] In data de Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:35:30 +0200 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a scris: > Please see the attached file for details. -- Cristian Burneci

Re: Shell accounts and telnet

2003-08-19 Thread Cristian Burneci
> > > Some shell accounts are free or nearly so. Some oldstyle Bulletin > > Board Systems (BBS's) are now reachable by telnet. One BBS that > > you can telent into is juge.com (at least it used to work, I haven't > > tried it for awhile) > > > > > > > > > > Sam Ewalt > > Croswell, Michigan, USA > > -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ > > > > > > > -- Cristian Burneci

Re: Stll no unsubscribe[Fwd: Majordomo results]

2003-08-15 Thread Cristian Burneci
Really? I thought that majordomo was an alias for listserv and listserv is a mailing list tool, working in conjunction with sendmail on Unix machines. Pe data de Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:25:05 +0100 Mel Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a scris: seem to remember Majordomo was/is still? a DOS based progr

Re: Shell accounts and telnet

2003-08-15 Thread Cristian Burneci
Very nice answer Sam. I wouldn't explain in a better way myself. From time to time I try to explain to some Windows user what a "shell" is and usually fail. They simply can't imagine how to run an application on a remote computer. And fail to understand how multiple users can run multiple instances

Re: arachne updates

2003-08-11 Thread Cristian Burneci
We all wait for the release of the code under GPL. Then, hopefully Arachne will get its team of developers. Arachne for Linux looks very promising, at least the GGI version which is fairly stable. Unfortunately it can't do anything else then http. The Linux code makes me very confident there will

Re: DELTREE C:\WINDOWS

2003-07-30 Thread Cristian Burneci
I assume at least the DLLs in use by various applications will fail to erase, but I am not sure. Pe data de Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:30:52 -0500 "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a scris: > In my experience I have always found that this command always works > flawlessly for curing one's Windo

What a virus! (was: Re: Application)

2003-06-30 Thread Cristian Burneci
fast as lighting although one has to do a little extra work to launch you into action :P In data de Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:41:47 +0900 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a scris: > Please see the attached zip file for details. -- Cristian Burneci

Re: The most useful command for blocking a new kind of spam.

2003-06-18 Thread Cristian Burneci
and at home and I was totally suprised to find Gator, Cydoor and other stuff like this on those machines. There were cookies,registry entries, DLL's and even EXE's on all of them. So, beware... regards Cristian Burneci > You need to disable the "messenger service". Our fr

Re: Suggestion

2003-02-28 Thread Cristian Burneci
Not very much on technical topics lately. And pretty much off-topic (see measuring techniques using the COM port). Furthermore I enjoy these debates. More technical issues will appear when a new version of arachne will be released. By then we'll all have plenty of technical things to talk about.

Re: Electronic Measuring Instruments

2003-01-26 Thread Cristian Burneci
This is kind of off-topic and technical. If you have to only monitor air and/or water temperature you should turn off your attention from weather stations and go for temperature sensors/transmitters which are cheaper. A tipical "weather station" should include humidity and pressure sensors, local

Re: Fw: arachne list cancelled

2003-01-17 Thread Cristian Burneci
Sendmail has very ugly config files and it is hard enough to configure it without any help from an automatic configuration tool. In addition to that, there are this Majordomo config troubles I wonder if time has come for Michael to try and switch to qmail and its companion ezmlm (for mailing list

Re: actiontec modems

2003-01-10 Thread Cristian Burneci
I was inclined to say "It's a winmodem", but something similar happened to me last night. Arachne failed to connect two or three times in a row, then I gave up and went to bed. I'll investigate futher this evening. Is it hard to find a real modem, or is it hard to find a CHEAP real modem. If so

Re: arachne-digest V1 #2002

2003-01-02 Thread Cristian Burneci
reply to an e-mail message) and get a snapshot of these two files. All you need is a mean to parse the query string, then pass it to the DBMS. If only there was a Perl or TCL for DOS... Regards Cristian Burneci On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 18:18:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Shelling out to a

New WWWMAN and Stacker 3

2002-12-31 Thread Cristian Burneci
Hello there Tested new WWWMAN ! Win 98 bare DOS fine Win 98 DOS boxfine DRDOS 7.03+Stacker 3.12 fine Above OS WIN 3.11 DOS box fine Nice job you two there. Congratulations! And a Happy New Year for all the people on this list Cristian -- This mail was written by user of

RE: now, DOS is JAVA

2002-12-28 Thread Cristian Burneci
chine. > Maybe is time to change, d.o.s ==> java. > Who take the bull by the horn's? > > -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ -- Cristian Burneci

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-24 Thread Cristian Burneci
I find HTTP uploading a simple thing to do. It's only about directing a stream of data to a pipe, along with a small header of information where you state the purpose of doing this upload. Nothing simpler than this.For instance, let's think of an webmail interface. Think of a way to attach a fil

RE: DOSEMUs

2002-12-16 Thread Cristian Burneci
mber of Win 9x family. They just hide DOS in ME, but it is there. The members of the Windows NT family come with a DOS emulator bundled. I've tested the one in Windows 2000, but behaved poorly. > > Kali & James > http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali/ -- Cristian Burneci

Re: your computer

2002-12-15 Thread Cristian Burneci
I tried and did an install of arachne 1.71 under Linux using dosemu and MS-DOS 7.10 with partition access. The process went just fine up to the end of the install process. I risked and run Dosemu in "all shields down" mode (as root with "console video"). Arachne detected my external modem, can di

Re: Whoa..!!! now Pardners..!!!

2002-12-13 Thread Cristian Burneci
These are a few of my reasons for reading this list. I've been a DOS user for many many years. Switched to Win 9x very late and for a short while before discovering Linux. I believe that DOS is a "poor relative" of Linux. There are many others who believe the same. I like arachne and the reasons

Re: "My Computer" Bug - Begin Troubleshoot

2002-12-12 Thread Cristian Burneci
Yikes!!! Made a mistake! It's "Your Computer" :) Only Bill Gates claims all computers belong to him. See? "My Computer"... C.B. On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Cristian Burneci wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:37:54 +0200 (EET) > From: Cristian Burneci <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: "My Computer" Bug - Begin Troubleshoot

2002-12-12 Thread Cristian Burneci
I have two installs of arachne on different operating systems. One of them is 1.71ue on DRDOS 7.03 (on a stacker-compressed drive). The other one is 1.70r3 on Win98. 1.71ue on DRDOS works fine. No trace of the "My Computer" bug 1.70r3 on win98 locks up tight when pressing "My Computer" icon or "\\

Re: can't leave this *(&^&% list

2002-12-07 Thread Cristian Burneci
The guy uses Eudora which has AFAIK some filtering capabilities. Can't tell anything about the format of the filtering rules as I don't use Eudora. He wrote the message in reply to one of mine, but simply changed the subject. Was this the reason which determined you to send this posting? :) On

Re: can't leave this *(&^&% list

2002-12-07 Thread Cristian Burneci
Noone of us can do anithing about it except Michael. And it seems to me that Michael doesn't check this list very often. Does anyone know his personal e-mail address by any chance? Please, if there's anyone who does, try to contact Michael as this seems to be the only thing that's left to do in o

Re: Printing in Arachne

2002-12-07 Thread Cristian Burneci
Hi Kali I also did try monkeylinux once upon a time... What kind of netcape did you manage to setup and use? 3.04 I suppose. There are better options if you're trying to use Linux without repartitioning. One of them is called ZipSlack and is up-to-date with the latest stuff. I believe it is made

Re: Majordomo results

2002-12-04 Thread Cristian Burneci
e to went berserk. > Bounced messages were resent to the list and the messages that were bounced > were bounced once again and resent again and again. The owner of the list > was in Berkeley, California, and the server was in Texas. They finally had > to pull the plug on the server to get it to quit. > > Roger Turk > Tucson, Arizona > Best regards Cristian Burneci

Re: Majordomo results

2002-12-03 Thread Cristian Burneci
re is that majordomo still doesn't work properly and failed to unsubscribe you. This is one thing the people at arachne@cz should take care about. Best regards Cristian Burneci On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, skywalker wrote: > Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 09:26:07 +1300 > From: skywalker <[EMAIL

Re: spam

2002-11-25 Thread Cristian Burneci
Fortunately I get only one or two a week. All of them on discussion lists On Arachne list, none. There's a good side in not being able to browse through list archive from the net. Neither the spiders can :) Cristian Burneci On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Sam Ewalt wrote: > Date: Mon, 25 Nov 20

Re: a bunch of accented letters

2002-11-18 Thread Cristian Burneci
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Cristian Burneci wrote: > > At the beginnings of the e-mailing, they used serial protocols to connect Before somebody gets to correct me They're still using almost nothing else than serial protocols in various forms for networking. Cristian

Re: a bunch of accented letters

2002-11-18 Thread Cristian Burneci
Ooops I suppose the font is still X-UNKNOWN in header Hi Bastiaan On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > What is wrong in using >128 ASCII?> At the beginnings of the e-mailing, they used serial protocols to connect computers to one another. They chose to use the seven-bit with

Charsets (was: Re: From iso-8859-1... etc.)

2002-11-16 Thread Cristian Burneci
I've got my charset set to US-ASCII (see this posting and some previous ones). But when pine must reply quoting from messages written using some other charset, it changes the charset to X-UNKNOWN and adds the "QUOTED PRINTABLE" content transfer specifier. Best regards Cristian

Re: From:=?iso-8859-1?... etc.

2002-11-15 Thread Cristian Burneci
right now (i'm on a linux box), and Joerg's name appears written correctly when viewing the message list. No "=?iso.." and the "o" has two dots above. Best regards Cristian Burneci On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Nov 20

Firewall (vas Re: Fw: Good news--Bad news)

2002-11-15 Thread Cristian Burneci
: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:00:08 + > From: Edenyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Fw: Good news--Bad news > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:37:26 +0200 (EET), Cristian Burneci wrote: > > > > > For Linux u

Re: Fw: Good news--Bad news

2002-11-12 Thread Cristian Burneci
I tried to see what it was faking Opera to identify as Explorer... didn't work. I switched to IE and the mystery was unveiled. It was an ActiveX something (of course). Didn't allow it to run and bailed out quickly. Guys were sued for only scanning ports to see if there was a potential security ho

Re: mouse not functioning in DOS .

2002-11-08 Thread Cristian Burneci
Hi Victor REM out the ctmouse line from the autoexec.bat than restart the computer, and run ctmouse from the command line in plain DOS (not windows DOS box). Tell us what it reports. There are also a bunch of mouse drivers you can also use, floating around. ctmouse has the advantage of being small

Re: DOS networking (was: Andy's Memory Problems)

2002-11-08 Thread Cristian Burneci
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DOS networking (was: Andy's Memory Problems) > > On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:29:29 +0200 (EET), Cristian Burneci wrote: > > > Also, there's no need to load DPMS if you're not using Personal Netware. > > DPMS is

Re: Arachne on a parallel zip disk?

2002-11-06 Thread Cristian Burneci
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, ANDY wrote: > Hi all... here is my memory map with my new autoexec.bat and config.sys > files modeled after Glenn McCorkle's posted system files... > > Ú Memory Type ÄÄÂÄÄ Total Bytes ( Kbytes ) ÄÂÄÄÄ Available For Programs Ä¿ > ³ ³

Re: Andy's Memory Problems in DOS

2002-11-06 Thread Cristian Burneci
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > If you have exotic (or very modern) hardware and/or drivers, > you need sometimes fiddle a bit with configuration. But on > a standard 386 or 486 PC there should be no problems. > There were problems when using programs which required "exotic" things.

Re: Andy's Memory Problems in DOS

2002-11-06 Thread Cristian Burneci
, better stability, better security (access rights on a per user basis). Too bad PN is not supported at all by Win9x. Cristian Burneci

RE: re 1.71

2002-09-09 Thread Cristian Burneci
to do with software testing. I, too, mess up the computer's date on those occasions. -- Cristian Burneci

Re: 1.71

2002-09-07 Thread Cristian Burneci
eird... on slower computers that sudden "movement" of the text when the whole paragraph redraws itself is a bit annoying. I haven't been able to sort out yet what exactly triggers it. Cristian Burneci On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Kali McLaughlin wrote: > Dear List: > Ah . Ins

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1908

2002-09-07 Thread Cristian Burneci
m. I don't believe that typing "./configure, make, make install" at the command prompt it's a job reserved only for linux gurus :) (well when you're stuck with older linux distributions like I am, this is the only way of keeping your box up-to-date). Cristian Burneci

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1908

2002-09-03 Thread Cristian Burneci
ither > > X-Windows seems to work. For arachne-ggi to work one has to install the ggi libraries, also > > Arachne 1.x under Linux doesn't make much sense anyway. Wait for > Arachne 2 - it may even replace X for some types of application ;-) > Good news :) Cristian Burneci

RE:ENIGMA

2002-08-20 Thread Cristian Burneci
od" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ENIGMA >Polystepped substitution is better. > >Wherrqihbpc xhliryrtrskh jm yzbald. Hey, aren't the spaces supposed to be encoded, too? Why not the whole ASCII table? 2^21 combinations is not so bad after all:-) -- Cristian Burnec

RE: more about floods

2002-08-20 Thread Cristian Burneci
or what to do. We see it every semester before > anything else is done. > Beware the calm yellow sky, if the day goes yellow seek > shelter! They sound alot like a freight train and also > dump alot of hail before they hit! > Rob: -- Cristian Burneci

The list is up and running :)

2002-08-18 Thread Cristian Burneci
Glad to see the list is up and running again, after all this time :)) -- Cristian Burneci

RE: more about floods

2002-08-18 Thread Cristian Burneci
the damages caused by the storm resembled the ones a tornado may had caused... but this particular wind wasn't a tornado. Anyway we're all fed up with these manifestations of mother nature unleashed, and worried about what will come next. -- Cristian Burneci

testing my new e-mail address

2002-07-01 Thread Cristian Burneci
I'm just testing my new e-mail address cburneci "at" totalnet.ro Cristian Burneci

Re: KLEZ.H and Outlook

2002-06-27 Thread Cristian Burneci
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, arachne-digest wrote: > > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:55:03 -0500 > From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: KLEZ.H and Outlook > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:08:21 +0300 (EEST), Cristian Burneci wrote: > > >

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1873

2002-06-27 Thread Cristian Burneci
d everything from sources. It is very easy and you can customize the application for your system. Just download the tarballs and check the included README and INSTALL files. In most cases these three commands do everything: ./configure make make install Cristian Burneci

Yahoo mail changes its interface

2002-06-27 Thread Cristian Burneci
then their revenues or income from commercials, and so, their profits should be smaller. I've heard that they're already experiencing financial dificulties, so, this should ring a bell there. Cristian Burneci

Re: KLEZ.H and Outlook

2002-06-26 Thread Cristian Burneci
ve like Outlook. Cristian Burneci On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, arachne-digest wrote: > > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:46:10 -0500 > From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: KLEZ.H and Outlook > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 06:16:26 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > >

Re: (OT) klez

2002-06-26 Thread Cristian Burneci
create RAR archives containing itself and spread them all over the place. These may remain unscaned by the antivirus. Take care. Cristian Burneci On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, arachne-digest wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 00:32:54 -0500 > From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: More about Links

2002-06-24 Thread Cristian Burneci
nks 0.96 (textmode only) takes 742K on my system (also with SSL support) I usually do "strip -s " Cristian Burneci On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 18:23:28 + > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > How large is the (stripped) bin

KLEZ.H and Outlook

2002-06-24 Thread Cristian Burneci
What is really weird is that it prob'ly continues to exist today inside v6. No further comments. Cristian Burneci

More about Links

2002-06-21 Thread Cristian Burneci
reviews on Links. If anyone of you is curios, try it yourself :) Cristian Burneci P.S. Did I mention Links is also Czech made ?

Re: Links 2.0 (was Browser times)

2002-06-21 Thread Cristian Burneci
s, I believe it should not be impossible for someone to try and port it to the DJGPP platform. At least these things should determine Michael to try and continue the development of Arachne Not necesarily in that tremendous pace he did it before. But, Michael, at least give us a sign of you existencee. We haven't heard about you for more than an year! Cristian Burneci

Re: Hardware/software problem or intrusion attempt?

2002-05-30 Thread Cristian Burneci
register (ATS10=n tenths of second). At least this is the case with my US Robotics external modem. Cristian Burneci On Sun, 26 May 2002, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Hello Fellow Arachnids: > > While online a few minutes ago, and while using Arachne Insight > to compose an emai

Test

2002-05-21 Thread Cristian Burneci
This is a test message. Please, disregard it Cristian Burneci

Re: file://cache\joe.

2002-05-21 Thread Cristian Burneci
ndows and commercial banners on the dreamwater site. Maybe it's only a decoy for attracting potential clients. Cristian Burneci On Sat, 18 May 2002, L.D. Best wrote: > I don't know who this guy is, but he's is spamming all over the place. > I greatly doubt he is from T

Re: Observations about two Arachne-compatible web-based email services

2002-04-02 Thread Cristian Burneci
x Arachne and POP/SMTP access is not implemented). I wonder if the free e-mail service at mail.rol.ro can be accessed from abroad. They offer free POP/SMTP access too, at least here, in Romania. AFAIK their interface is available only in Romanian (and seems it can't be used with Arachne). Cristian Burneci

Re: NOT Guilty! Re: Virus

2002-03-16 Thread Cristian Burneci
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Cristian Burneci wrote: > > L.D., Please don't panic, you're clearly not guilty! > > The virus originated from somewhere in Hong Kong (hknet.com domain) > Correction! The *message* we've just received originated from Hong Kong. AF

Re: NOT Guilty! Re: Virus

2002-03-16 Thread Cristian Burneci
of the list. This applies if the guy in question won't find out he has an infected machine, of course Cristian Burneci DHP Technology S.R.L. phone: +(40).1.628.90.39 fax: +(40).1.628.56.52 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.pcnet.ro/dhptech Bucharest, Romania On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, L.D.

Re: The challenge

2002-02-28 Thread Cristian Burneci
even if I don't use it. Like I said before, I do use other kinds of assembly language. But I don't see the point in learning ASM, when his job is to develop, let's say, multi-tiered database applications. He'll face another sort of problems Cristian Burneci

Re: The challenge

2002-02-27 Thread Cristian Burneci
jne .L19 leave ret .Lfe1: .sizemain,.Lfe1-main .ident "GCC: (GNU) egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)" Cristian Burneci

Re: Hello World (was: arachne-digest V1 #1780)

2002-02-27 Thread Cristian Burneci
intf leave ret .Lfe1: .sizemain,.Lfe1-main .ident "GCC: (GNU) egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)" Cristian Burneci

Re: Linux - diving in.

2002-01-24 Thread Cristian Burneci
itching to and fro DOS and Windows, A third OS will not make > things easy. Would be nice to delete Windows but that day will only come > if linux offers the same wild variety of programs. > > CU Bastiaan Cristian Burneci DHP Technology S.R.L. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.pcnet.ro/dhptech Bucharest, Romania

Re: Bash Guide (was Linux - diving in)

2002-01-23 Thread Cristian Burneci
e ``Guides'' section for something like ``Advanced Bash Programming''. It has lots of examples in it. Cristian Burneci Bucharest, Romania

Re: PINE users...

2002-01-21 Thread Cristian Burneci
h many mailers, but Pine creates a Message ID with > the same info. > > - Steve > > -- > One can add all sort of lines in the mail header using the "Customized hdrs" option in Pine Setup I added the X-Mailer and the Reply-To fields. Cristian Burneci Bucharest, Romania (still using Pine 4.10...)

Re: Linux and Arachne

2002-01-21 Thread Cristian Burneci
ll a new program because you lack any data-transfer and storage media except the HDD) . AFAIK Monkey Linux offered a separate package containing GCC 2.72. This might work on BasicLinux, providing the header files for the kernel and libc5 do exist in your Linux tree. Can BasicLinux deal with it? (Note: AFAIK the current version of GCC is 3.02 and of the binutils is 2.11.something). Cristian Burneci Bucharest, Romania

Re: printer problems

2002-01-21 Thread Cristian Burneci
about it in Printer-HOWTO. When setting up Linux on my computer, getting my printer to work was the toughest job :-) I own an older Mannesmann-Tally MT-83 (24 pins). Cristian Burneci Bucharest, Romania

Re: How do I get rid of all this wincrap?

2002-01-09 Thread Cristian Burneci
ok to describe a method working in almost any cases, than to dig into every distro's install interface :-))) if only you chosed to rely on the installation instructions on the CD (they *MUST* be there) instead of those from that book (I am joking:-))) Cristian Burneci On Mon, 7 Jan 2002

Re: Winmodem stuff

2001-12-17 Thread Cristian Burneci
oes not know what COM port and IRQ should use. Windows tells it these things and it knows them only when you restart into MS-DOS mode These settings evaporate when you shut down the computer. You're probably missing the necessary utilities that allow modem configuration under DOS. Cristian Burneci

Re: How do I get rid of all this wincrap?

2001-12-10 Thread Cristian Burneci
uot;/mnt/dos_c" for now on. Don't go inside the subdirectory, yet. (anyway, it's empty) 6. Run "man mount" and read about the "mount" command 7. Finally, mount your DOS partition. "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos_c" for Win9x partitions (your case), or "mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos_c" for plain DOS. 6 Switch to the "/mnt/dos_c" subdirectory. Miracle! all your DOS stuff is there! 8 See "man fstab" and then take a look at "/etc/fstab" file to see which partitions are mounted at boot time and where. 9. See "/etc/mtab" to see which partitions are currently mounted and where. Gosh! I'd better start writing a book about Linux, but I'm afraid it should take a lifetime to complete it. :-) Cristian Burneci

Re: Linux is now "the" threat to M$ according to M$

2001-11-14 Thread Cristian Burneci
system. (if not for newbies to overcome the ton of configuring problems) Their name and functions *vary* from one distribution to another, and I am sure the newer distributions have far more sophisticated and easier to use mechanisms for generating the required scripts and configuration files in order to get your system up and running in no time. After that everyone should start to tweak them manually in order to get the most of his/her Linux system. Hoping I wasn't too boring and didn't annoy you all with this long, long letter. Cristian Burneci

Re: CAD programs

2001-11-01 Thread Cristian Burneci
to buy it, so I had to dump it :-( Cristian Burneci > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:25:16 -0400 > From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: CAD programs > Does anyone know of a simple to use [code would be complex, of course] > "drafting" program

Re: "MS DOS - An Eulogy"

2001-10-31 Thread Cristian Burneci
w what tools the guys from Microsoft are using, but I believe that, when writing an operating system, they simply hsve to use the command line from time to time :-) the command line :-) Cristian Burneci

Re: DOS question - bit off the track!

2001-10-31 Thread Cristian Burneci
d, I believe, Python bindings to TK. This makes it slow, and a bit resource-hungry. The URL where sketch is to be found seems to be http://sketch.sourceforge.net, but I'm not sure about it. Cristian Burneci

Re: "nearly free" PDF ability

2001-10-26 Thread Cristian Burneci
ard. This is another bitter lesson. Concluding this issue and hoping I have not made myself yet another enemy :-) Cristian Burneci

Re: arachne crashes

2001-10-26 Thread Cristian Burneci
I'm also using a 586/133. (and MSDOS 7.1) To my surprise, pressing "Your computer" icon reboots my machine. Pressing the "Files" icon next to it works well. I can produce any file list of any folder, I have also tried to view some files. It works. Anyway, Arachne stumbles when trying to produce

Re: "Nearly free" PDF abllity

2001-10-24 Thread Cristian Burneci
s ensures that the document layout remains the same, even if the Helvetica Compressed font is not available. So, you dont't loose anything of what they intended to show you. To push things further try and experience with this: http://users.pcnet.ro/dhptech/download/west_new.pdf The document

Re: "nearly free" PDF ability?

2001-10-20 Thread Cristian Burneci
I intended to. I am free of some annoying problems like codepage support on the recipient machine (or if it possible for him to correctly see the accented characters or not --- this is the biggest problem when exchanging documents here, due mainly to the inconsistencies between different Windows versions :-)). Cristian Burneci

Re: Connect to Internet via modem

2001-10-15 Thread Cristian Burneci
ut it although he's using PAP every time he logs into the Internet). Remarcably, those dialers allow you to use the manual login or to login via some script, if they are configured to do so. Cristian Burneci

Re: Integrity of voting sites?

2001-10-15 Thread Cristian Burneci
ne who patiently waited for the one hour time to expire, to vote again and again... This turned to be rather dramatic as he used a fixed IP. Finally he managed to enter the French "Muzik" TV station into the TV station charts. :-) Cristian Burneci

Re: connect to Internet via modem

2001-10-14 Thread Cristian Burneci
PPP sequences appear imediately, and no login prompt is issued anymore. The only solution is to disable the terminal login feature in arachne.cfg, or to uncheck the "show terminal" box on the dialer page. This way, the ppp driver is loaded right after the modem sees the carrier, and does a PAP login. This login procedure is automated. The user does not interact in any way with it. Cristian Burneci

Re: 404 identifies your browser, your OS, your ISP, and your IP

2001-10-10 Thread Cristian Burneci
above. In conclusion they did not scan your machine; they only sent you back the stuff you passed them on when requested the page. Cristian Burneci

Re: Majority.bat

2001-09-15 Thread Cristian Burneci
I am not sure, but I believe that lines longer that 128 chars won't be interpreted and would cause the command interpreter to stop and exit. Cristian Burneci Bucharest, Romania

Re: Window managers and why

2001-09-10 Thread Cristian Burneci
ts (kind of "startup") If not found here, then /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients is executed (starting the bloated thing). Study the X and xinit man pages! (RTFM -- :- )) Cristian Burneci

Re: A Shocking Tale; was Re: icewm vs. fvwm2)

2001-09-10 Thread Cristian Burneci
einstalled Windows this week ?" they say ) Linux offers these three alternatives: 1. Finding the appropriate set of binaries 2. Statically linked programs (mostly commercial applications-- they have to run anywhere) 3. Compiling from sources. Neither of them trashes your system. Regards Cris

Re: Window managers and why

2001-09-09 Thread Cristian Burneci
ibrary). Cristian Burneci Bucharest, Romania -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

Re: A Shocking Tale (was Re: icewm vs. fvwm2)

2001-09-09 Thread Cristian Burneci
urces the user needs - C compiler, and binutils (linker, assembler, library archiver, object converter etc.) - The make program. The Red Hat distributions install them all on your filesystem. The minidistros don't. Try gcc --v for compiler (see the compiler's version) ld -v for binutils (test the linker's version) make -v (ditto) Hoping this should be of any help to someone Cristian Burneci Bucharest, Romania

Re: A Shocking Tale (was Re: icewm vs. fvwm2)

2001-09-09 Thread Cristian Burneci
urces the user needs - C compiler, and binutils (linker, assembler, library archiver, object converter etc.) - The make program. The Red Hat distributions install them all on your filesystem. The minidistros don't. Try gcc --v for compiler (see the compiler's version) ld -v for binutils (test the linker's version) make -v (ditto) Hoping this should be of any help to someone Cristian Burneci Bucharest, Romania

Re: virus

2001-09-07 Thread Cristian Burneci
ere is a way to use it to automaticaly scan the e-mail messages when they arrive on the server. Cristian Burneci

Re: Baslinux customization

2001-09-06 Thread Cristian Burneci
quot; which puts a set of icons on the root window, much like windows does. It is significantly smaller and uses far less resources than the bloated counterparts of Gnome (Gnome Midnight Commander) or KDE. Cristian Burneci

Re: virus

2001-09-06 Thread Cristian Burneci
has never been officially imposed . most of the listmembers respected it in the past, like it had been there) Cristian Burneci

Re: virus

2001-09-04 Thread Cristian Burneci
the equivalent of a crime ... even supposing that many of the people on this list do not use Win9x on a regular basis. Cristian Burneci

Re: [SurvPC] editor for DOS

2001-07-08 Thread Cristian Burneci
e difficult to use than Setedit. Still Setedit can be used to accomplish the majority of the tasks Emacs does. (The Emacs rpms take 15 megs of the Red Hat CD, so I don't think that 1.3 megs show that Setedit was bloated, after all :-)) Cristian Burneci -- Cristian Burneci DHP Techn

Re: [SurvPC] editor for DOS

2001-07-06 Thread Cristian Burneci
a try under Linux: If you want the mouse available in the console, compile the editor from sources. The precompiled statically linked binary available uses an older version of libgpm which is not compatible whith the more recent versions of gpm. Cristian Burneci

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