Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-14 Thread cce . zizkov
On 14 Apr 02 at 15:22, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >Reply to Sender: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (howard schwartz) >Reply to List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I was told that dos7 that comes, at least with win95 has certain ``powers'' >the last ``real dos'' does not: a) dos5 and dos7 copy an

Re: SETI [Fwd: Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested]

2002-04-14 Thread L.D. Best
OK, that does it!! I'll find that cancer research place or whatever, and link into them. With you two working SETI they don't need me! };> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:29:04 -0500, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [resend] > Steve wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Richard Menedetter wrote: >

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2002-04-14 Thread david
[resend] Steve wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Richard Menedetter wrote: >  LB> how can SETI At Home and the cancer research thing >  LB> work? > Seti Searches ExtrateresTrial Intelligence :) http://iosef.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&cmd=user_stats :-)  - Steve http://iosef.ssl.berk

Re: Why M$? [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-14 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:19:44 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:37:19 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> So, my question is: >> Exactly what is it that you can't do with Arachne? >> Whatever those items might be. >> I'll bet you dollars to donuts that we can figure-out >> a way of do

Re: Why M$? [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-14 Thread Glenn McCorkle
(this is a resend) Pleas forgive the duplicate if it *did* get through the first time. On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:03:10 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Things are changing rather quickly these days, Glenn .. > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:37:19 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> On Wed, 10

Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-14 Thread Clarence Verge
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:51:58 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: > Hi howard! > 12 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (howard schwartz) wrote: > hs> I was told that dos7 that comes, at least with win95 has certain > hs> ``powers'' the last ``real dos'' does not: a) dos5 and d

Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-14 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi howard! 12 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (howard schwartz) wrote: hs> I was told that dos7 that comes, at least with win95 has certain hs> ``powers'' the last ``real dos'' does not: a) dos5 and dos7 copy and hs> move files faster than dos 6.22 b) dos7 supports fat32 which saves hs> wasted

SETI [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-14 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi L! 10 Apr 2002, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SETI@Home] LB> I plan on joining once the dozerware system is up; Seti has a big problem. Too many users. You and up doing the same work over and over again. (see the newsgroup sci.astro.seti) They artificially slow down their client

Re: Why M$? [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-12 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:37:19 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > So, my question is: > Exactly what is it that you can't do with Arachne? > Whatever those items might be. > I'll bet you dollars to donuts that we can figure-out > a way of doing them in Arachne. :)) Try going to the website of Bignet

Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-12 Thread howard schwartz
> At 02:06 PM 4/10/2002, anarkisseD wrote: > >I want to protect it against itself! I want to boot to DOS without > >having to use F8. I want to make certain any "messaging" software > >doesn't open up a back door that others can send files through. etc etc With win95 you can alter the ms

Re: Why M$? [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-12 Thread L.D. Best
Things are changing rather quickly these days, Glenn .. On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:37:19 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:29:23 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > All of what you've just mentioned *can* be done with Arachne. > I know because I do it all the time. > I have made several

Re: Why M$? [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Begin quote, and I don't want to modify anything as by > line prefix. There are some strange characters at the start that arouse my curiosity: Ô( system for DOS stuff. This MMX-233 system will remain pristine, and Arachne will be used for all e-mail applications. I've been assured by some tha

Re: Why M$? [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-11 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:29:23 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Ô( > system for DOS stuff. This MMX-233 system will remain pristine, and > Arachne will be used for all e-mail applications. I've been assured by > some that there *are* "safe" e-mail programs out there for dozerware, Yep, there is one. Ar

Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-11 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:46:52 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Richard Menedetter wrote: >> LB> how can SETI At Home and the cancer research thing >> LB> work? >> Seti Searches ExtrateresTrial Intelligence :) > http://iosef.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?[EMA

Re: Why M$? [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-11 Thread anarkisseD
At 09:29 PM 4/10/2002, you wrote: >Why on earth a 60yo dame who can't hold a job >feels the need to learn a new OS may be a valid question ... but I want >to learn it. For one thing, I want to set up a better network here >than the "hub to cable modem, no proxy" setup I'll have to begin with. >A

SETI [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-10 Thread L.D. Best
Very commendable indeed!! 95th percentile is not to be sneezed at! I plan on joining once the dozerware system is up; since I'm allowed 2 IPs, I can have both machines going at the same time ... and with cable modem any data transfer times will be minimal, which the 1.2GHz processor should be abl

Why M$? [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-10 Thread L.D. Best
Ô( system for DOS stuff. This MMX-233 system will remain pristine, and Arachne will be used for all e-mail applications. I've been assured by some that there *are* "safe" e-mail programs out there for dozerware, but I prefer Arachne -- it is well behaved. As to Linux ... I really don't have ti

Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-10 Thread Steve
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Richard Menedetter wrote: > LB> how can SETI At Home and the cancer research thing > LB> work? > Seti Searches ExtrateresTrial Intelligence :) http://iosef.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&cmd=user_stats :-) - Steve

Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-10 Thread anarkisseD
At 02:06 PM 4/10/2002, you wrote: >I want to protect it against itself! I want to boot to DOS without >having to use F8. I want to make certain any "messaging" software >doesn't open up a back door that others can send files through. etc etc > > >I hate M$ ... I really REALLY hate Microsoft. >

Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-10 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi L! 10 Apr 2002, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What do you protect your win98 against ?? >> Win98 has no open ports (if samba has been disabled) >> if somebody wants to connect to you, he will get a ICMP Port >> unreachable. LB> I want to protect it against itself! I want to

Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-10 Thread L.D. Best
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:56:22 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: > What do you protect your win98 against ?? > Win98 has no open ports (if samba has been disabled) > if somebody wants to connect to you, he will get a ICMP Port unreachable. I want to protect it against its