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andras // User Search
andras // User Search
Dec 13, 2003, 8:31pm
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> There is currently a trojan going around, a supposed "Terrain bot" that is
> from terbot.0catch.com. I was infected with it and the little #$%^& used my
> acct and ftp server to distrobute another version of it called VWTViewer. If
> you see eather one DO NOT DOWNLOAD THEM. VWTViewer i have deleted and have
> changed all of my passwords, but DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES download
> these. They are a real #$%^& to remove.
>
> -Ep0ch
>
>
Never EVER run a program which is not from a trusted source! If there is a new program out, it is either from someone you trust, or wait till you see reports about it.
The terbot.0catch.com site was mentioned only in my ng (best of my knowledge) where you'd see an immediate response from several ppl that it is a backdoor trojan.
The webpage explicitly explains it is not the original program from the author (which indeed was a nice bot!) but an upload by a script kiddie.
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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)
FU set to community
Dec 14, 2003, 2:28pm
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> I deny all rumours that Saddam was caught in Hole! :p
>
> *off with reward money*
>
Excerpt:
"
Search operation unearthed the haggard, bearded fugitive taking shelter in a mud hole, camouflaged with bricks and dirt.
The former Iraqi president was in a "spider hole," about two to two-and-a-half meters (six to eight feet) deep with a ventilation pipe to enable him to breathe.
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Hmmm - I don't recall mud and spiders in Hole :)
Yippeeeee!!!!!!
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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)
Jan 12, 2001, 11:53am
Who is Eep?
[View Quote]goober king wrote:
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> hehehe... Guess now we know why Eep didn't get on the closed beta list
> *smirk*
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> eep wrote:
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> --
> Goober King
> Eep has a point, but his delivery could use some work...
> rar1 at acsu.buffalo.edu
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Jan 17, 2001, 7:49am
According to your email provider you violate their Accepable Use Policy:
You may not attempt to "flood" or disrupt
Usenet newsgroups. Disruption is defined as
posting a large number of messages to a
newsgroup which contain no substantive
content, to the extent that normal discussion in
the group is significantly hindered.
Any more attempt to post bull** or crosspost to irrelevant groups on behalf of you will be reported to your ISP (shawcable.net and home.com) resulting your internet service disconnection.
Andras
Jan 17, 2001, 10:49am
Thanks Eep,
Andras
[View Quote]eep wrote:
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> "resulting IN [dig those prepositions] your Internet [it's a pronoun, you know] service BEING [yet another one] disconnected"
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> andras wrote:
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Jan 17, 2001, 4:06pm
First abuse report is sent to home.com and shawcable.net.
Andras
P.S. - I ask everyone who is offended by his posts file a complaint to abuse at home.net .
P.P.S - maybe my grammar is not the best in this post either - so sorry in advance.
Jan 17, 2001, 8:53pm
Yes I did. If he doesn't get a slap on his face today he won't handle a K.O. tomorrow. Another way to grow up.
I won't go into a long discussion about your post (tho I would love to).
Andras
[View Quote]nornny wrote:
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> You REPORTED abuse on this kid?? Well, maybe he MIGHT deserve it, but we
> were breaking ground and creating a comprehensable dialog. :) Seriously.
> That's pretty mean, I think. He doesn't know much better or much at all, but
> we could've kicked him out ourselves instead of complaining and running to
> the big boys. He doesn't realize yet where he is, and if you DO look around
> to other groups, some are run by kids like AFM. AFM just doesn't know that
> we're different than most groups in that we're an ADULT and MATURE,
> INFORMATIVE newsgroup, rather than a chatter box or gossip gathering. (AFM,
> take note of the last three capitolized words and let it sink in).
>
> For god sakes, it's only been a matter of a few days too. Personally, that
> was too much andras. :) Just yell at the kid, until he cries if he has to.
> No need to take his email and internet service away.
>
> Nornny
>
> "andras" <andras at andras.net> wrote in message
> news:3A65DE30.A84FB22A at andras.net...
> abuse at home.net .
> advance.
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Jan 27, 2001, 10:44pm
Can you stop changing the Subject line please?
It is not part of your message - but the thread.
Andras
[View Quote]> col klink wrote:
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> never argu with a idiot,he'll just bring you down his level and beat you with experience
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Jan 23, 2001, 8:13am
Would you please stop posting in HTML? It is considered unpolite in ANY newsgroup on the net!
Thanks,
Andras
[View Quote]> tony56 wrote:
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> thanks for sharing your opinion of me, Eep :)
> hmm you cant stand 3kb? I've seen worse..
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> --
> - Tony56 (Tony M.) [chandler56 at mail.com]
> "All typos are optical illusions"
> ____________________________________________________________
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Jan 21, 2001, 10:55am
2. Paid for it.
Even then I wrote my own one (see http://andras.net/tools.html ) I know the work developer put behind it and IMO it is not fair to tkae their well earned money away.
Maybe I'm too naive?
Andras
[View Quote]ueak raptorfox wrote:
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> I reformatted, And got a HARD jolt back to reality and because of it i would
> like to take a poll.....
>
> How many people actualy REGISTER WinZip?
> 1. Never have
> 2. Paid the 30$
> 3. Cracked =)
>
> Just Curious....
> UEAK RaptorFox
> USWF Public Relations & Newsletter
> raptorfox at softhome.net
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Jan 30, 2001, 6:25pm
I have a novice idea :) Don't read Col Klink AKA Agent Fox Mulder posts - that would save you not only the virii but some aggrevations <sp?> too :)
Andras
[View Quote]milenko wrote:
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> Col klink, aka Agent Fox Mulder,
> ummmm, just dont open executable attachments...
> ~Mlenko
>
> ----------
<snip>
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Jan 29, 2001, 11:20am
[View Quote]eep wrote:
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> Huh? I've noticed this for months, and have told Roland MANY times, yet he's simply too cluelessly inept to learn how to do floating point math correctly and claims it's a Criterion problem, which I just don't believe. He tried to fix the gap/seam bug when AW3 was released (despite his claim that it also happened in AW 2.2 because I NEVER noticed it before AW3) by adding even smaller object movement increments, but that's a quick-fix for a deeper bug: bad math. Incorrect floating point calculations also account for jerky avatar turning and movement (the latter of which can be easily noticed at high coordinates like in AlphaWorld).
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> Roland needs to learn math better--PERIOD.
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Sais someone who can't even calculate 60m*60m :( Go back to grade school and learn it first --- PERIOD.
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Jan 30, 2001, 1:53pm
Before you insult anyone - go back and learn yourself twit! You can't even distingiush between red and green when it comes to programming! Did you ever write a SINGLE (1) line of code to find out why the floating point/integer conversion looses resolution??? I'm sick of your name calling.
Ops - don't forget the toothbrush - you need it badly (your mouth stinks)!
<plonk>
Andras
[View Quote]eep wrote:
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> Gee, he almost admits it here. LEARN MATH BETTER, YA TWIT!
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> roland wrote:
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Jan 31, 2001, 12:42am
1st - I doubt Roland will quit
2nd - Having Eep as a "lead programmer" (means the only one) would make a mess :) He is NOT a programmer - just a poor QA engineer with a big ego.
[View Quote]crazy glue il wrote:
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> I wonder if Roland quit his job and it was open, would Eep take it? The
> reason why I ask is because he is always, whats the word? I think its
> Bashing, well I wouldn't knwo but lets find out what eeryone else thinks,
> lol.
>
> ~CrAzY( Don't forget I'm a wanna be retard :D)
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You are retarded but it is not the issue here :)
Andras
Jan 31, 2001, 7:09pm
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
Andras
Feb 7, 2001, 9:04am
<plonk>
[View Quote]eep wrote:
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> facter wrote:
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> You (AWCI) employee the services of an obviously incompetent host, Facter. The problem has EVERYTHING to do with AWCI.
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> Since mpl.net is continually proving inept, why not get a better host? Duh.
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> How am I being hostile to you? You were fucking with the newsgroups, right? Yep.
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> Oh yea, some "explanation". "The newsgroups are down and will be back up shortly." or some other bullshit statement. Give me a fucking break, Facter. Before you got sucked into AWCI's tangled web you wouldn't take such a bullshit statement (no reason there, by the way) in an instant. You've changed, man...you went over to the dark side...
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> I would prefer the newsgroups run correctly in the first place without them spontaneously "failing" for no explained reason, which you STILL haven't stated...
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> There isn't? How about posting a newsgroup post first? I was still able to READ the newsgroups; the problem was in POSTING to them. Had there been a message from you or some other clueless AWCIer about the newsgroup POSTING problem, I would not have had to email AWCI "support".
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> Hence you were fucking with them. How did they go down again? You never did (conviently) say...
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> Which are WHAT again? You still haven't said...<yawn>
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>
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> Blah blah blah, you sure you aren't a politician or lawyer, Facter? Perhaps a bullshit artist? Yep, that's what I'd say. Rick and JP are teaching you well, it seems...fucking clone.
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Feb 9, 2001, 7:17am
My 10 million dollar question:
Since when is it your or Eep's business ?
Do you ask your ISP or Yahoo or AltaVista if they are down what was the problem?
Do you get detailed answers?
Do you ask your cable TV operator what was wrong when they have interruption in their services?
c'mon folks - it's only lame excuse by a lame eep.
Andras
[View Quote]casay wrote:
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> Now for the 10 million dollar question.. what 'kind' of maintenance?
> Casay
> "facter" <facter at activeworlds.com> wrote in message
> news:3a838e3a at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> out
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Feb 9, 2001, 10:00am
Remember how many ppl objected about your website background color? I bet you do. Do you remember your response to their complaint? I bet you don't. You said it is MY website! I like it as it is! Don't even ask me to change it! <of course not so politely than I interpreted here>. You are not even a small company yet you still just brushed off all those ppl. You would have even a higher obligation to answer to those question if I read your comparison correctly. Why do you think ANYONE would give you an explanation about a simple ng maintenance issue? Your reply is even more lame than my confusion :)
Andras
[View Quote]eep wrote:
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> Stop confusing AWCI with a REAL company, Andras. AWCI is no ISP, Yahoo!, or AltaVista. Because AW is a VERY small company relative to any of these, they have an obligation to offer more personal customer/tech support. I asked Facter a simple question yet it took a good beating for him to finally spit out the full response. He needs better training in SUPPORT, which IS one of his jobs. Perhaps he has too MANY jobs at AWCI and he should just focus on one.
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> andras wrote:
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Feb 9, 2001, 1:41pm
[View Quote]eep wrote:
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> As soon as people start paying me for my website I'll treat such questions about its design more professionally. Until then, I can do whatever the FUCK I want with the site. Think, Andras...
>
As soon as you start paying for AW - you can express your opinion.
Think, Eep...
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Feb 8, 2001, 10:18pm
I'm using ZAP (the pay version of ZA) with not a single hickup since about october. I run worlds behind it, several browsers (old and new versions) , I do updates. You name it :)
IMO it is doing its job just perfectly. I know how to set it up, played a lot with it and uninstalled twice - just to test the uninstall - without any problem.
W2K, NT4.0 and W95 (I never had 98 nor ME).
Andras
[View Quote]facter wrote:
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> It has been noticed by us here at Tech support, that the program Zone Alarm
> and AW really dont work well together - in fact, zone alarm tends to block
> AW from working at all, and treats it as a rouge program.
>
> What I want to know is, have any of you used Zone alarm and got AW working
> with it - the worst things about zonealarm, is that even uninstalling it,
> does not always unblock the ports - for some wierd reason.
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> Just after anyones experiences with the program =)
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> F.
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Feb 9, 2001, 12:05am
With ZAP (ZoneAlarm Pro) - I never lowered the security level from High. Proper port settings/program settings should fly with AW browser AND server (and even with bots!)
Andras
[View Quote]builderz wrote:
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> I have been using ZoneAlarm Pro (on the High setting for both Internet
> and Local) on Windows 98SE, Me, and 2000 computers without ANY problems
> with Active Worlds. If it asks you "Do you want to allow Active Worlds
> Browser to access the Internet?", simply press "Yes" the first time you
> run AW. It will ask you if you want to allow AW to act as a server
> (depending on your security level, it may not do this) when you try and
> use the file transfer method. Just press "Yes" again. If you don't want
> to keep pressing "Yes" the next time you run the browser, go to the
> Programs tab, find your AW browser, and put a check next to "Allow
> connect" and "Allow server" (if you want file transfer abilities) for
> both Local and Internet. I also use ZAP on a Windows 2000 Professional
> system that I host bots and worlds on without any problems. ZAP is one
> of the best software based firewalls on the market. If you can't connect
> to AW using it, try adjusting the security levels to "Medium." If that
> doesn't work, a free decent firewall alternative is Tiny Personal
> Firewall, located at http://www.tinysoftware.com/pwall.php.
>
> -Builderz
>
> facter wrote:
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Feb 8, 2001, 10:58pm
[View Quote]eep wrote:
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> What's to respond to? I have j b e l l filtered. :)
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Read a littlebit down - quoted messages are not filtered.
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Feb 10, 2001, 9:20pm
[View Quote]jeiden wrote:
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> "eep" <eep at tnlc.com> wrote in message news:3A855E5A.B815E304 at tnlc.com...
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> Yes eep I have. Strange though that you would forget what you wrote when it
> was your and only your post that I was replying to. Sounds like you really
> don't pay attention to a good deal of what you write. Oh well, this is the
> last post I will make on this topic.
>
> Even though I do not like you, good day.
As a common courtesy you still could (or do I have to say should?) quote the relevant part of the message you are referring to.
Andras
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Feb 9, 2001, 12:27am
With you two??? nnaaaaayyyyyy
[View Quote]katalyzt wrote:
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> ok that's two of us now, any more?
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> wing wrote:
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Feb 9, 2001, 1:55pm
As I see you still did not get the whole picture :) Filtering works only AFTER the first insult. Till then you don't know who do you want to filter. Not to mention that _sometimes_ Eep has actually something to say which worth to read.
Andras
[View Quote]jeff raven wrote:
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> Facter, have you ever tried to use the filter function on your newsgroup
> browser? This would certainly solve *many* of the problems you complain
> about.
>
> ~Jeff Raven
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> facter wrote:
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Feb 9, 2001, 2:59pm
Duly noted.
Andras
P.S.:That brings us back to the first phase isn't it?
[View Quote]eep wrote:
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> Hi, this is a friendly service announcement.
>
> "which worth to read" = "which is worth reading" or simply "worth reading"
>
> and "actually" should be before "has"
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> We now return you to your regularly scheduled posting...
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> andras wrote:
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Feb 12, 2001, 2:57pm
I propose to use Logitech MarbleMan - it doesn't uses any moving parts inside but an optical ball. No mousepad required either. I clean it only when I feel the ball is not running freely but even than the pointer moves nicely on the screen.
Of course you have to used to use <hmmm - is that a correct grammar?> a trackball :)
Andras
[View Quote]rolu wrote:
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> "myssie" <yonkers21 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3a87b61d at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> couple
> it.
>
> See my other post... the first time I opened a mouse there was so much dust
> on the little cylinders I thought it was a layer used to give it more grip.
> I cleaned everything but the cylinders, and it didn't work. Only when I
> cleaned everything off the cylinders it worked good again.
>
> Also, be sure to have a good mouse pad. Try out several of them, and also
> several other surfaces. See what works best.
>
> rolu
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Feb 16, 2001, 9:31pm
Slight corrections:
1, Use your vac to such the debris out of the mouse
2, DON'T use water/solvents but pure alcohol (rubbing alcohol is fine) to clean the tiny cylinders :)
Andras
[View Quote]ananas wrote:
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> Someone already told about opening the mouse - the two wheels or
> cylinders that touch the ball (not the diagonal one) - do they move the
> mouse cursor when you scroll them with your finger? If they do maybe the
> mouse ball came in touch with oil or fat and you can clean the ball with
> few drops of dishwashing fluid in water.
> Another thing that makes a mouse work much better is a mousepad with
> textile surface instead of plastics.
>
> If only one of the 2 wheels/cylinders make the mouse cursor move you can
> check, if the wheels inside the mouse belly are clean. The wheels are
> disks with holes in them and used for a fork-like LED thing (english
> word unknown to me) and if the holes are stuffed with dustballs that
> hinders the light that goes from the LED to the transistor on the
> opposite side of the fork. As most of the "fork-like things" work with
> infrared LEDs these things are not necessarily damaged if you don't see
> light.
>
> Another thing to check if it's a 95/98 : Sometimes windows recognizes
> new hardware and installs the driver without asking. If that happened
> you might have 2 mouse drivers installed. You can check that in your
> device manager.
>
> If it isn't a PS2 but a serial mouse software accessing the serial port
> could disturb the mouse.
>
> You can try to use the other PS2 (if your PC has two of them) or the
> other serial port (will need an adapter 25/9) or - if it is a PS2 - use
> an adapter to connect the mouse to the serial port.
>
> Another possible reason : some laptops don't like to have the touchpad
> AND the external mouse enabled (disable touch pad in this case) and some
> have trouble with certain connectors that connect both external keyboard
> and external mouse to one PS2 port. In this case the Y-connector has 2
> keyboards or 2 mice symbols printed onto the plugs that lead to
> mouse/keyboard. Especially some old IBM laptops have trouble with that
> rubber mouse replacement thing together with an external mouse when a
> dos box is open.
>
> Everything just rough guesses but things to check or try
>
> myssie schrieb:
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Feb 13, 2001, 8:05am
[View Quote]rehabber wrote:
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> facter wrote:
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> ok, watch the witch comments... us witches might have to turn your
> tongue into gerbil or something... hehehe
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http://www.witchvox.com/basics/little_witch.html
Feb 13, 2001, 8:13am
Foxy's program is excellent and I probably can dig it out for you on my hd.
<shameless plug> On the other hand I wrote one myself too and I even maintaining it regularly. http://andras.net/tools.html - mapview. </shameless plug>
Andras
[View Quote]john viper wrote:
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> Someone named (in AW) Foxy, a little while ago, had a program that would
> take a propdump (or a BuildBot ObjectScan file) and convert it to a nice
> image, and you could use this to map towns or take a 3-D image of a building
> and make it wireframe or solid -- very cool and fun stuff. Does anyone have
> this program? I could really use it, and I cannot find Foxy. Hey does
> anyone know where Foxy is by the way?
>
> Also, if I can ever find this file, I will need the Metatropolis object
> registry. Anyone have this?
>
> Thanks in advance :-)
>
> -John Viper
> jviper at jtsoft.net
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