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Beta testers needed for Firewall AW version

Mar 31, 2001, 8:40am
Works for me too, pal...it's all in the configuration, methinks ;-)


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Beta testers needed for Firewall AW version

Mar 31, 2001, 8:40am
Works for me too, pal...it's all in the configuration, methinks ;-)


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Disabling HTML in Outlook Express 5/6

Jul 13, 2001, 8:39pm
It's very simple...and since posting in HTML in a non-binary newsgroup goes
against the nearly globally accepted Usenet netiquette guidelines, it's
worth doing so you don't look like a clueless idiot.

Outlook Express:

Tools --> Options
Select the "Send" tab
At the bottom, check off "Plain Text" for "News Sending Format"
*UN*check the box above that says "Reply to messages in the format which
they were sent."
OK/Apply/Whatever.

Now, you'll always post in plain text, and if you reply to an HTML post it
will also revert to plain text.

Save your fellow humans some bandwidth, and follow the accepted rules of the
road...you're not being a rebel by using HTML.
You're just showing your profound ignorance to the entire world.

Disabling HTML in Outlook Express 5/6

Jul 14, 2001, 1:48am
[View Quote] Just out of curiosity, can you actually read?

I tried to be nice and clear on this one, but now I might be a little mean.
It was explained in my message - and in plenty of other peoples' messages
before me - that posting in HTML:

1) Goes against the generally accepted etiquette on Usenet. For you
newbies, that's the part of the Internet that serves up newsgroups. It's
been around a lot longer than HTML or the WWW, and is based on plain ASCII
text messaging.
Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, gave you newbies the awful power of the
markup language. Oh, how wrong they were...

2) Is a waste of bandwidth. Imagine if your mommy and daddy took away that
cable or DSL line, and then started charging you by the minute to be
online - on a 14.4 modem. Think that's funny? Well, guess what kiddo, some
people still have to access the Internet in that very fashion. Not everyone
has broadband.
2/3 of the world has never even made a fucking telephone call.
Now, using that scenario, go download a shitload of HTML messages that would
have been 1/4 the size had they been posted in plain text. Wouldn't you be a
little irritated?

3) NOT EVERYONE USES OUTLOOK BLOODY EXPRESS. Most other newsreaders DO NOT
support HTML, and therefore, your message downloads as plain text HTML
source. Not only is the file bigger, but it's a complete pain in the ass to
sift through a bunch of 'font' and 'br' tags to find the actual message.
When you post a message, you want people to read it, right?
Here's another tip for you - many people don't download messages over a
certain size, and/or will skip a message if all they see is HTML source. The
person that could have helped you has now let your message pass right by,
all because you couldn't configure your newsreader properly.

4) Continues to make you look like an idiot after being told these facts
time and time again.

This is my last post on the subject, because you've already made me waste
too much bandwidth.

Disabling HTML in Outlook Express 5/6

Jul 14, 2001, 5:45am
[View Quote] Right...for instance, I've never posted anything remotely helpful or
on-topic in any of the AW newsgroups (or any of the other Usenet groups I
frequent, *all* of which ask that people refrain from posting in HTML) such
as technical advice or a friendly hello to a new citizen. Nope, not me, I
certainly have nothing better to post about than this. I live for this
stuff. Yup, that's me, no other goal in life. Gonna quit my job so I can do
this day and night. Maybe sell the other computers so I don't get distracted
from this one. No sense in trying to be helpful anymore.

>2. Some people like to start useless off-topic discussions

Given the previous discussion, my original post with the advice for OE was
quite on-topic, intended to help people configure their newsreader for
maximum compatibility with the rest of Usenet. Yes, I was sarcastic and a
little condescending, but I was trying to drive home the core point that,
once again, the younger generation seems to be totally missing.

>3. People dislike downloading three times larger files to get ten times
better looking >posts

Why does a newsgroup post have to have 80 different fonts in it? You want to
make an HTML document, put it up on some web space and give us a link. You
people are totally missing the ultimate point - that your HTML messages look
like straight junk to a lot of people. Usenet is, at its core, an
ASCII-based system. Just because Uncle Bill gave us the ability to use HTML
does not mean that it's standard across board. Just as an example, when I
use my plain-text settings to reply to your HTML message, it completely
defeats my ability to quote your post properly, which is why this is
probably going to look screwy when I hit Send. Usenet was not designed to
use HTML.

>4. People are reluctant to new ideas

Au contraire...I'm all for new stuff. I work on aircraft electrical and
avionics systems for a living and love the hell out of new technology. If
you're still actually at any point in your teen years, I've owned computers
longer than you've been alive - and no, I'm not trying to demean you with
that statement - but believe me, I'm not still using the same computer I
started with. I dig new versions of software. I'm looking forward to the
changes in AW 3.2.
Change is good. However, there are times when deviation or change does not
contribute to the good of the whole...in this particular case, the advent of
HTML does not aid a large portion of the Internet community in viewing or
downloading your posts. I wish, if nothing else, someone would admit that
they can at least understand the logic behind this, regardless of whether or
not they agree with it.

>And if there are "viruses" in almost every html post, I would recommend
that anyone >who takes too much caution stop visiting any websites.

I don't recall ever mentioning viruses - much as I never mentioned any kind
of WAV files or streaming audio in my post to marcus, yet he somehow was
able to imagine that I did.
I see that the reading skills are there, but the comprehension level is
still pretty low. So, I'm giving up this fight.
Yes, kids, you win. Go tell all your friends, put up banners, post large
font HTML messages replies with purple backgrounds, whatever.
Enjoy yourselves.

Disabling HTML in Outlook Express 5/6

Jul 14, 2001, 6:23am
OK, marcus, let's try this again. I hate to have you make a liar out of me,
but I had to respond to the things that - once again - you've completely
missed out on or misinterpreted. I will do my best to be more adult and
civil in this post.

[View Quote] Who created "the generally accepted etiquette" that you hold doors for
people with their arms full, or that you let the pregnant woman on the bus
have your seat, or let the older person ahead of you in a line so they don't
have to stand around for so long? I don't know...but these are things that
most courteous people would do. Why can't we extend that to the Internet,
and follow the courtesy guidelines that have been in use for so long?

| For you to tell me that means it is an OLD FRIGGIN SYSTEM!!! Time to
| re-establish some less primitive "accepted etiquette". It is not hard now
| to put in block options that were perhaps harder to implement in the past.
| Do you have anything to date to establish why there needs to be a
censorship
| on html posts?

It's not censorship. It's common courtesy. Again, I say that just because
it's there, dosen't mean it needs to be used. Microsoft introduced HTML into
a system that was not designed to use it.

| "Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, gave you newbies the awful power of
| the
| markup language. Oh, how wrong they were..."
| If people want to post in html, it is their own business, not for you to
| censor.

Again, I'm not trying to censor anything. I'm actually offended by that
statement, now that you've used it twice against me. I spend months at a
time away from my home and my family protecting your right to shoot your
mouth off like this. After you've spent 6 months floating around on a big
tin can in the middle of the Persian Gulf with 5,000 other people, you
really begin to appreciate how important courtesy and respect both are.

| I would like to see where they spend their money, oh wait that's getting
| personal. Stay out of my life as to how I wish to spend my money and stop
| censoring you idiot!!!

Strike three for you on the censorship bit. It's not a question of how
people spend their money. It's a question of AVAILABILITY. Son, not everyone
lives in the US. Do you know how hard it is to send a piece of e-mail from
Kuwait? I've tried, it's pretty tough. The system simply is not in place all
over the world.

| "2/3 of the world has never even made a fucking telephone call."
| And this has to do with the price of tea in China? (Here folks is where a
| desperate person tries to present some red herring to better exaggerate a
| claim of file size. A newbie wouldn't know the difference and take his
| word. I am not a newbie, and I know sound wavs for phone calls are much
| bigger than html posts. They can get into the huge whopping MB's)

Where did you get anything about a WAV file out of that?
I was *trying* to, once again, convey the fact that the entire world is NOT
wired for 'net access. If a place does not have phone lines, then there's a
really, REALLY good chance that they don't have any kind of broadband access
either.
There are still plenty of places where access is charged per-minute, and
they have extremely limited speed available to them. Ask some folks from the
less populated areas in Europe how their 'net access is.

| "Now, using that scenario, go download a shitload of HTML messages that
| would
| have been 1/4 the size had they been posted in plain text. Wouldn't you be
a
| little irritated?"
| We are not downloading .wavs but html which is not anywhere near the size
of
| .wav files (an those would be streamed, not downloaded). STOP associating
a
| phone call with html.

See above...you're reading things into my post that were not even remotely
implied. I was drawing a parallel between high cost/low speed bandwidth, and
having to download unnecessarily large files.

| ******RECAP - SO FAR dabartender HAS PROVIDED US WITH PRIMITIVE RULES AND
| ADDRESSED SOUND AS A MEANS TO MAKE THE ARGUMENT AGAINST HTML POSTS APPEAR
| MORE VALID. HTML IS NOT SOUND RELATED******. It stands for "HYPER TEXT"
YES
| TEXT!!!!, Hyper Text MARKUP LANGUAGE.
|
| ok dabartender, batting 0 for 2, let's see if you don't strikeout.

I don't know, looks like you've already struck out with the censorship bit,
and you've made a completely irrelevant connection with the whole sound file
issue.

| "3) NOT EVERYONE USES OUTLOOK BLOODY EXPRESS. Most other newsreaders DO
NOT
| support HTML, and therefore, your message downloads as plain text HTML
| source."
|
| What you use for a reader is your choice, if Outlook "Bloody" Express is
the
| only program (which I doubt) that can only read html code then GET OUTLOOK
| "BLOODY" EXPRESS and stop pissing and moaning.

Hey, sparky - guess what, not everyone uses Windows either! And don't even
give me the "Well, AW only runs on Windows so why would anyone be using
anything else" argument, because I can just as easily reboot this machine
into Linux or BeOS and access this newsgroup the exact same way. And guess
what? The newsreaders on those OS's are plain-text only. This whole argument
isn't coming up just as an AW issue...HTML is generally frowned upon
Usenet-wide when it's used in a non-binary newsgroup. It goes back to the
courtesy aspect.

|
| "Not only is the file bigger, but it's a complete pain in the ass to
| sift through a bunch of 'font' and 'br' tags to find the actual message.
| When you post a message, you want people to read it, right?
| Here's another tip for you - many people don't download messages over a
| certain size, and/or will skip a message if all they see is HTML source.
The
| person that could have helped you has now let your message pass right by,
| all because you couldn't configure your newsreader properly."
|
| If people don't want to download posts more than a certain limit, that is
| their choice. However, their choice to NOT download should not dictate
| someone else's limit who might WANT TO see bigger file sized posts.

And I'll say again that, when you post that important question with a 12K
HTML file instead of the 2 or 3K text file that it could have been, and the
one person who could answer it for you goes right by your post...all you'll
end up doing is complaining that noone is responding. And you'll probably do
that in HTML too.

| 4) Continues to make you look like an idiot after being told these facts
| time and time again.
|
| Well, since you didn't know my response, I am sure idiocy was the only
thing
| floating around you.

I'm not even going to try and interpret that.

| This is my last post on the subject, because you've already made me waste
| too much bandwidth.
|
| LOL, well, I am sure you will have something to say here. I'll be
awaiting
| out next discourse.

Well, you did get one thing right.

My response to kmissile indicated that I'm pretty much done arguing about
this, because it's truly pointless. Go ahead and disregard etiquette, rebel
against the man, burn your underwear, or whatever it is that people do these
days...just keep in mind that one day, I may be the very person who holds
the door open for you while you're struggling with an armload of groceries.
A little courtesy goes a long way. I'm going to exit this smoldering flame
war and get on with trying to assist folks where I can.

News Reader Software?

Jul 21, 2001, 2:53am
They sure do...you can still get Free Agent (16- or 32-bit) for...well, free
<G> ...and the full Forte Agent 1.8 is still only US$29. Great software -
I'm not even sure why I don't use it anymore. I may have to recify that
situation :)

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BBS...

Aug 6, 2001, 1:15am
[View Quote] (nostalgia break, this seemed a good place to run amok with it)

They're pretty 1980's too ;-) I used to run a BBS on my old Commodore 64,
circa 1985 or so. 170K 5.25" floppy, 880K 3.5" floppy, and a 512K RAM
expansion unit set up as a RAM drive...that was a lot of storage space back
then! Add in my "overclocked" modem - a 300 baud would go up to 420 or so
before it started dropping characters - and I had a kick-ass system running
LOL :D

Of course, the big kid on the block was the guy who had the 5MB hard drive
on his system, running the latest version of Wildcat! BBS...ah, the good ol'
days ;-)

Bah.

Aug 14, 2001, 10:39pm
Well, HooverAE is currently down for the count. My Windows machine blew
up (not literally, thankfully) and I haven't had time to get into it to
fix anything. Might not get to it until this coming weekend...not that
anyone comes to visit all that often, but I figured I'd drop in and let
those few who *do* care know what was going on :)

Bah.

Aug 15, 2001, 12:31am
Well, it all started with a standard reformat (doesn't it always?) I do
it every few months or so, since I really abuse the hell out of the
computer (in/uninstalling apps, trying new tweaks, beta software, etc)
and it gets clogged up pretty fast. Not the right way to treat an OS,
but I've been doing it for years LOL :D

Anyway, this rebuild went awry. Corrupted and missing files, ethernet
settings didn't take hold, video driver won't install...basically just
bad things everywhere. I think my apps drive (separate from my boot
drive) is dying, unfortunately. It's the oldest one in the box, and it's
had a good life...but I think it may be time to retire it and move on.
I'm currently on my seldom-used Linux install (same box, different
drive) so I could at least get to the newsgroups.

But now that I'm here, I may just stay, set up the servers under Linux,
and be done with it :)


[View Quote] > What happen?
> Someone set Windows up the bomb.
>
> Just overly curious, what went wrong?

Back up 'n' running

Aug 17, 2001, 9:36pm
Finally got Winblows 2K working right... (sighs) If there weren't things I
*needed* Windows for, I would have been perfectly happy to stay in Linux. I
forget how much I like a stable operating environment :-)

The funniest part of this whole situation, though, was that I managed to get
the Code Red worm last night LOL :D

In my fervor to get everything set up after 2K started working, I forgot to
unplug the LAN cable before I enabled IIS5 and got the patch
installed...within about 45 seconds, both the TX and RX lights started
blinking feverishly, and the firewall went absolutely nuts. (Note: a
firewall is useless when you *have* to have the affected communications port
open <G> ) I knew what happened immediately, shut the computer down, and
just started formatting that partiton again. Wasn't even worth trying to
figure out what types of back-door issues I may have encountered.

So, now I'm running a completely different web server that is not affected
by the worm. Don't know why I didn't think of doing that in the first place
this time around ;-)

Back up 'n' running

Aug 18, 2001, 9:10am
Ummm... *cough* with only a very few exceptions, Windows 2000 will run
pretty much anything that 9x will - and do it better ;-)


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Back up 'n' running

Aug 19, 2001, 12:08am
What games, out of curiosity? I've had little to no trouble with most of the
stuff I play - the exception being DOS-based games, of course ;-)


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Back up 'n' running

Aug 19, 2001, 12:55am
I've got XvT here somewhere in a box...I'll give it a shot and let you know
what I come up with :)

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Domain Names?

Aug 18, 2001, 1:10pm
www.directnic.com is nearly as full-featured as NetSol, but only charges
$15/year for domain names, and you can register for one year (if desired) at
a time instead of two :-)

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Question

Aug 22, 2001, 1:34am
Alt+0169

:-)


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Service outage (again)

Aug 26, 2001, 4:32pm
Just a note for those who visit my world, and/or utilize the web and FTP
services.

After I get back from today's shopping trip, I will finally have all the
parts I need to build a dedicated server machine for all this stuff.
The current "main" machine will be down for a bit while I transfer files,
swap some hardware, and ditch this crappy old 10/100 hub for a nice full
duplex switch :) Once back online, this machine will be a hands-off,
remotely administrated box that should, if all goes well, run constantly
with little intervention.

Wish me luck! :-)

-DB

Win2K security: Code Red worm defense

Aug 31, 2001, 6:54am
http://www.dynwebdev.com/codered/

"Code Red Vigilante." It's actually a harmless bait-type program that
simulates an IIS
server. When it receives the buffer overflow string that Code Red sends out,
it attempts to pop a message window up on the offending computer, using
the internal messaging service in NT4/2K. If it's successful, it informs
the person that they are indeed infected, and directs them to a web page
detailing their problem.

It's written completely in Java, and thus requires the Java Runtime
Environment (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/) to operate.

The only caveat is that you can't be
running another service on port 80. I run it on 3 of the 4 machines in the
house, and get several confirmed "decaffeinations" (you'll have to read the
web site) per day.

Just a lil' something you might want to try, and help get as many of these
infected machines off the 'net as we can.

Win2K security: Code Red worm defense

Aug 31, 2001, 9:02pm
I'm trying to figure out why those people think it's "modifying" the
infected computer...all it does is send a message back to inform the user
that their machine is infected with the worm. No more, no less. It utilizes
the Alerter service that's built right into Windows.

I generally like GRC, and I think ol' Steve does some pretty good
programming. But there are lot of people who think Steve Gibson speaks out
of his fundamental orifice when it comes to security matters :-)
http://www.grcsucks.com/

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Win2K security: Code Red worm defense

Sep 1, 2001, 1:24am
Addendum to that: it also has the infected machine's computer contact the
dynwebdev.com server through Internet Explorer. Still no modification there
though...the "script" command doesn't actually run a script of any sort, it
runs IE and sends it to a simple hit counter page. The modification has
already been done by the worm - otherwise, the particular command that
triggers IE wouldn't work at all.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm trying to start a big to-do about this, because
that's not my intention at all. I'm just trying to figure out how anyone can
consider a literally harmless program "iffy" or "illegal."

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Win2K security: Code Red worm defense

Sep 3, 2001, 6:56am
I can see the other side of the argument on this one, points conceded and
accepted :)

I don't really have anything else to add to this thread, but I wanted to
thank you for being civilized and unbiased about the whole thing. It's not
often that a potentially volatile subject can be discussed in such a calm
fashion - and even if it sounds corny, I'm gonna say thanks for upholding
the "spirit" of Usenet :-)

-DB

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Terrorist attacks

Sep 11, 2001, 1:19pm
If you don't know by now, turn on a TV set.

If you also don't know, I'm active duty military.

The "hooverae.com" server will be offline as I lock the house down in
anticipation of the alert call. Will let folks know what's going on
here as I find out, if I'm able to.

Terrorist attacks

Sep 12, 2001, 2:18am
Got the word earlier today...standing on full alert (like everyone
else) but not going anywhere. Servers are back up.

Not that it matters much.


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WAY o.t. - CPU liquid cooling :)

Nov 10, 2001, 3:12am
For the adventurous sorts out there, I'm pleased to report that I have a
functional water-cooling system installed on the big Athlon box over here :)

Using an old but never-used automotive transmission cooling radiator,
coupled with a Swiftech MCW372-B copper/aluminum CPU water block and a small
60 GPM fountain pump, I have instantly lowered the CPU's operating
temperature by over 30 degrees F as compared to my old air cooler. Where it
used to run between a scorching (but frighteningly, well within spec)
135-145 degrees depending on room temp and CPU load, it now chugs along
happily between 100-105 degrees. And it's just "Frankenstein-ed" together
right now, sort of in the prototype phase. Once I get everything mounted
and situated permanently, I'm pretty sure that I can get it down under 100
consistently.

If anyone's ever thought about this, and has a few extra bucks to blow - you
can get complete prefab kits for a bit over $100 - I highly recommend taking
the plunge. It's very nifty :-)

WAY o.t. - CPU liquid cooling :)

Nov 12, 2001, 12:40pm
Actually, I am using water :-) The only "active" cooling at this point is
the radiator, which has two 80mm fans pulling air through it. The water
itself stays slightly above room temp, and condensation isn't an issue. Not
enough delta-T to allow it.

If/when I decide to change the cooling medium, or add in a peltier for more
active cooling, then I'll have to investigate some sealing and insulation.
Workin' just great for now, though :-)

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html help

Nov 10, 2001, 6:18pm
http://www.codeave.com/html/code.asp?u_log=5080

:-)


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html help

Nov 10, 2001, 10:14pm
LOL ;-) Shhhh! Don't let out the "print screen" secret, there may be three
or four people left in the world who don't kow how to do it! <G>
Back when I used to do web sites for more than just fun, I eventually gave
up trying to use any kind of protection or deterrents. Too much coding for
little or no real security... I slowly began putting up as little as
possible, and nothing of real "value," and eventually just quit altogether.
Hell, I don't even have the web page for my own world put back up yet :D

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email/NG problem

Nov 20, 2001, 1:01am
Just for reference, you can still safely send mail while browsing the
newsgroups in OE...just select "File --> New --> Mail Message."
Took me a LONG time to realize that LMAO :D


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Me, the Navy, and career stuff

Dec 9, 2001, 6:05am
For anyone who's familiar with the military, particularly the Navy, I'd just
like to let ya know that I just got promoted to E-6 :-)

For my views on the deal, please point your browser to:

http://www.hooverae.com/rant.txt

Even if you're not in the military, it should pretty much explain the way I
feel about it :D

VROOM VROOM! The fastest....

Dec 17, 2001, 8:11pm
Aside from my dual P2/400 server, I haven't owned an Intel chip since about
1996. Four out of my 5 machines are AMD...Athlons 1.4 and 850, a Duron 700,
and a K6/2-450.

Can't say as I'd have it any other way at this point in time :-)


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