Re: [newbie] Dummies Books Rock

1999-08-18 Thread DoC
Hi, Err...not always. I agree some of them are quite good but some are..well...'error prone'. Eg the Perl 5 one isn't that good. Neither is the C/C++ one. There better ones avaliable on the market. Lionel > I have to agree with you. It's the only thing that got > me through the Cobol section

Re: [newbie] Viruses?

1999-08-18 Thread DoC
Hi, not to give anyone any idea but a very simple destructive script can be constructed with virus qualities. 1) Append a "at" command to a virus script to user's startup script. 2)The virus script would list all the processes running and extract those PIDs with the current user name. 3) Redir

Re: [newbie] looking at my pc files from Linux

1999-07-29 Thread DoC
Why all the fuss? It is possible to mount WIN98 fat32 partitions. Simply download your stuff on the windows machine and mount the partition the *.gz files are stored on. I've used it for ages. Lionel - Original Message - From: Dave Waddling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se