The F I D O N E W S Volume 19, Number 16 22 Apr 2002 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |The newsletter of the | | Fido, Fidonet and dog-with-diskette are | | | FidoNet community. | | US Registered Trademarks of Tom Jennings| | | | | San Francisco, California, USA | | | ____________| | | | | / __ | Crash netmail articles to: | | | / / \ | Editor @ 2:2/2 (+46-31-944907) | | | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | Routed netmail articles to: | | \_______\(_| /_) | Bjorn Felten @ 2:203/0 | | _ @/_ \ _ | Email attach to: | | | | \ \\ | bfelten@telia.com | | | (*) | \ ))| | | |__U__| / \// | Editor: Bj”rn Felten | | ______ _//|| _\ / | | | / Fido \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. | | (________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Copyright 2002 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally. Table of Contents 1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1 2. INSIDE ................................................... 2 The Fidonews at a Glance ................................. 2 3. EDITORIAL ................................................ 3 Swinging USA and more .................................... 3 4. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 5 Evolution in action: Operating Systems ................... 5 5. CATCALLS FROM THE CHEAP SEATS ............................ 7 Catcalls from the Cheap Seats ............................ 7 6. REBUTTALS TO PREVIOUS ARTICLES ........................... 10 24 hours ................................................. 10 7. EDITOR'S CORNER .......................................... 11 Russian characters ....................................... 11 8. FIDONET'S INTERNATIONAL KITCHEN .......................... 12 Japanese Kamaboko ........................................ 12 9. CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES ...................................... 13 BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL #13 ........................... 13 Post WWIII ............................................... 15 The Czech and the lawyer ................................. 16 10. TODD COCHRANE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................ 17 Fidonet Software List .................................... 17 11. FIDONET BY INTERNET ..................................... 21 Fidonet-related Sites .................................... 21 12. SPECIAL INTEREST ........................................ 26 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 26 13. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 28 How to Submit an Article ................................. 28 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 29 FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 1 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 2 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= INSIDE ================================================================= The Fidonews at a Glance The editorial this week, "Swinging USA and more", is about a remarkable US patent plus a sweep around the world for some remarkable persons. The Snooze's very own catcaller, Luke Kolin, finally got his own section, long overdue after more than ten articles for almost as many weeks. The name of the section is of course "Catcalls from the Cheap Seats". In Editor's Corner I explain how to prepare and use different code pages in a Windows 98 DOS-box in "Russian characters". In the General Articles section Fran‡ois Thunus has a mini-poll going in "Evolution in action: Operating Systems", and in the Rebuttal section Michiel v d Vlist gives us some information about that "24 hours" issue I raised last week. Carol makes "Japanese Kamaboko" in this week's section of Fidonews International Kitchen. In the Jokes section we have "Bastard operator from hell #13", the last episode for this time. Plus something I stole from the Fidonet echo ENET.SYSOP (sorry Petko I didn't have time to ask your permission to use it), "Post WWIII". And finally one from the Warren Bonner archives, "The Czech and the lawyer", once again playing with the english language. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 3 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= Swinging USA and more... This week's award for US ingenuity and PTO generosity goes to US patent 6,368,227. The abstract of the patent application reads like this: "A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternatly on one chain and then the other." Yes, you've got it. The patent is for swinging a swing sideways. This ingenious invention has been patented at USPTO, and may from now on *not* be used by anyone without the expressed approval of Steven Olson, 337 Otis Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104. Please remember this all you parents, whenever you discover that your kids are showing tendencies towards side-way swinging out there on the playground! I just love the background description in the application: "A few basic types of swings have been around for generations [no kidding? -- ed.note]. Perhaps the most common is one that includes a seat suspended between two ropes or chains that are hung from a tree branch or other substantially horizontal support. These swings are often found in side-by-side sets of two or three more on, for example, a school playground." Well, from there the application goes on with one obvious statement after the other. You just simply have to read the entire patent doc! Go to www.uspto.gov and search for approved pat.no. 6,368,227. The person who helped Steven Olson to send in his patent app is listed as "Attorney, Agent or Firm: Olson; Peter Lowell". Can one assume that this is the proud father of 12 year old(?) Steven? I can picture the situation. Daddy Peter looks out the window and sees young Steven and his sister (I know he has a sister because she is mentioned in the application) swinging sideways on their swing. Being a patent attorney he immediatly sees the potential of this new movement. He sends in a patent application in his son's name and, hold and below, it actually gets approved! One can only ask in what South East Asian jungle patent officer Kien T. Nguyen grow up, since he obviously regarded this side-way swing to have the "novel techology", that is one of the most important criteria that any patent application must comply to. - - = = * = = - - Speaking of crackpots, The Post-Crescent had an article about a man from Wisconsin, that one day simply had enough. He had some problem with his daughters computer (HD, sound, CD drivers). Brand not disclosed. After having given the personel in the computer shop, where FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 4 22 Apr 2002 he returned the f*cking computer for the umti-eleventh time, the usual "have a nice day", he returned with a sledge hammer that he used to smash the computer to bits and pieces. I guess this gives a new meaning to the word "hacker"... - - = = * = = - - The Australian father of four, Prime Minister John Piss the Family Court and Legal Aid (yes, that is his complete name after the name change he made in 1997), of Seaford, Victoria, suddenly ran into problems, according to the newspaper The Age. Up to now he's had no problems with either his drivers license, credit cards or medical journals with his new name, but when he applied for a new passport, the authorities objected. Mostly to the middle name "Piss", that they regarded as offensive. - - = = * = = - - The Calgary Sun (Canada) reports about an obviously desperate man, that robbed a sex shop of a sex toy. The man threatened the one man personel with pepper spray and demanded the personel to face the wall with the hands on the head. Rather than taking money he then nicked "an anatomic sensation" (according to the police report), worth almost $300, and disappeared. According to police spokesman Bob Johnson, the police "have no trace of the perpetrator as of yet, he's probably busy having a good time with himself for the moment". - - = = * = = - - A Brasilian priest of the Catholic Church has announced that he will no longer wed any woman unless she can prove that she's a virgin, according to Terra Noticias Populares. The priest, Natal Antonio Mella, claims he'll only accept a doctor's certificate as proof of the virginity. Citizens of the little village Petrolina, where he has his parish, are said to be very angry with him, but he's assured his congregation that he'll not object to anyone else wedding already screwed women, only *he* will not do it (wed them, that is...). - - = = * = = - - Yeezz... Whatever is humanity coming to? How many crackpots can we really keep producing before mankind is going down the drains like the dinosaurs? On the other hand we may try to remember that there are all kinds of different people in the world, so we do not become so surprised the next time we read something out of the ordinary in a Fidonet echo. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 5 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= GENERAL ARTICLES ================================================================= Evolution in action: Operating Systems by Fran‡ois Thunus, [2:270/25.1 / fidoarticle telematique org] I started my first BBS a long time ago, in 1987 to be precise, on behalf of the "Club de TeleMatique" (http://telematique.org). It first ran on a 286 with a 20 megs HD, under DOS. Like many, it took me several BBS software before finally finding what I wanted / needed. Those were the days, and soon the phone line was no longer enough. I needed more. I switched to a 386 with 2 lines running DesqView, which was nice but not stable enough. I started looking for something else at the next hardware upgrade, which was a 486. Windows 3.10 was no good for telecomm, NT 3.51 was too ressource-hungry. I picked OS/2 2.11, almost immediately upgraded to Warp 3.0. I loved it, because it enabled me to keep my DOS programs while giving me a real solid multitasking system. At some point, we had 4 lines running. Then I discovered Linux, the SLS distribution (0.98). I played with that a long time, but it was too much work to redo the BBS under it. In fact, the BBS remained under Warp 3.0 until quite recently. In the meantime, the internal network at the club (some 15 machines) has been running several brand of Linux: RH4.0, RH4.2, RH5.2, SuSE 6.0, SuSE6.1, SuSE6.3, RH6.2, RH7.2, and soon Debian 3.0. The reason I picked Linux is quite simple: as a club, we can't afford the wintel arm race, and we don't want to pirat copies. After a lot of indecision, I decided to switch the BBS/Fidonet machine to Linux as well, simply because the OS/2 machine is now the odd man out. It is much easier to integrate the internal network when all machines are the same. However, until recently no BBS/Fidonet solution was what I looked for. I no longer have as much time as I used to when I first started the whole thing, and I don't want to downgrade the offer too much, even though I have to admit that unfortunately the current 2 lines are idle most of the time due to lack of caller. In fact, our BBS is everything but dead, and the only service still used is the internet<>fidonet gateway for our points (number shrunk to 7 :-<). The good thing about Linux is that I can do all maintenance remote from home (the BBS is locked at the club's premises on the other side of town, and finding a parking place is a long and enduring quest). So this is my story (the short version anyway). The other day I was reading the snooze and I was wondering who was running what. Since most Fidonet people are in a way pioneers, I would imagine that they are not mainstream and that there are probably a good number of Linux or OS/2 users out there, or even Mac, but I can be wrong. Hence this idea of a mini-survey. Please send your OS data to fidosurvey at telematique dot org, with the relevant OS info on the subject line. This will be automatically treated and I will collect data during two weeks after publication, after that I'll post the result here. sample: from: hp@hogwards.ima to: fidosurveytelematiqueorg FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 6 22 Apr 2002 [ and must of course be changed to the respective caracters, you know what. Changed to prevent all those ugly mail spam sniffers from stealing the address. Editor's note.] subject: Windows 9 3/4 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 7 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= CATCALLS FROM THE CHEAP SEATS ================================================================= Catcalls from the Cheap Seats By Luke Kolin My output has slipped somewhat in recent weeks - mostly due to my recent vacation on the Gulf Coast with my wife and daughter. While I had the displeasure of a six hour drive (God bless smooth southern American interstates where you can drive 90mph without undue police interference) and a sick baby at the end of it, consider my trip Exhibit 2,526 in my demonstration that yes Virginia, there is community on the Internet. When my wife reached the stage in her life when she decided that she really did want a baby after all (and why didn't we have it yesterday?) she started participating in a number of Internet discussion areas related to getting pregnant with a number of other women from the US and Canada who were attempting to conceieve at the same time. About two years later we (well, they) have six babies and one on the way, and three of the ladies met on the Gulf Coast for a week in the sun (well, rain) and to finally meet. No one got molested or murdered and chopped into little bits. This is now the second time I've met folks I've first worked with on the Internet - the first was a Toyota MR2 owners' club I used to belong to. On each occasion, good times were had by all. Our editor has given me an excuse to talk about one of my favourite topics - myself. Yes, I use my real name. And yes, I was an honest to goodness FidoNet sysop between 1986 and 1997, for about ten and a half years. I think I can still remember my node numbers: originally 148/158, then 1:223/110, and finally 1:250/714 for about seven years. During those years, I took an undue interest in network politics - I was elected RC of that pesky Region 12 in late 1991, and served as NC/NEC of Net 250 in Toronto Canada on a few occasions. As Bjorn points out, I did not necessarily make a lot of friends during my time in FidoNet as a *C. As he is too diplomatic to mention, I also didn't necessarily do a great job during that time, either. I think I did a lot of things right (like a fully transparent CRP, which I believe was the first of its kind, and pushing for NC elections in each network when I was RC) and I also did a lot of things wrong. I got into a lot of petty battles that I should have been smart enough to avoid. In my defense, I plead that I was young and foolish - I did all this between the ages of 14 and 25. Taking a few years off has allowed me to gain some new perspectives in life (being a *C in FidoNet is pretty unimportant when you have a family and a mortgage) and a little - but not much - wisdom that comes with hanging around long enough. What disturbs me is that the same old garbage that I saw, dealt with and contributed to in FidoNet in 1994 and 1992 still exists in FidoNet in 2002. An abrasive little kid like myself is able to learn, grow and see the error of his ways - yet large portions of FidoNet's *C structure are unable to. In 2002, they still don't get it. By the looks of things, they won't any time soon. FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 8 22 Apr 2002 Enough about me and my sins. Avid Snooze readers with a fetish for the back issues and a cursory understanding of how a search works can read more about my many faults than I could hope to describe. Back to the topic at hand. I originally mentioned Canadian health care not as a means of teeing off on my native land (although it's such a tempting target) but as an allegory for FidoNet - a system that worked well in the past but has been stuck in the static thinking of the past. Because of this stagnation, it is rapidly decaying. Where the comparison breaks down is that in FidoNet, it is easy to opt out of the system. In 1988, I became a member of AlterNet - the first FTN or "Fido Technology Network". Today, we have the Internet as an opt-out destination, and thousands of sysops have done so, following tens (hundreds?) of thousands of users. To opt-out of Canadian health care is a more significant undertaking, although thousands of Canadians just like me do it every year - we move to the US. As a good columnist, I can't resist attempting to get the last word. Frank Vest makes an excellent point - there is no free lunch. At the end of the day, someone ends up paying and one way or another it ends up being me. The one huge advantage of the US system over the Canadian is freedom and choice. I have the choice of what percentage of my income to devote to health care, and what level of coverage I want. Should I be dissatisfied with my provider, I can change (with restrictions). I can easily change doctors. In the Canadian system, I pay more the more I make, with the same crummy level of service. I cannot switch insurance companies, and with the doctor shortage I cannot easily switch physicians. In short, I have no choice and I have no freedom. Not too much different from FidoNet, where a paternalistic (or maternalistic?) ZC can annul a democratic election and foist her own Quisling on those individuals for a full year. I'm somewhat divorced from that little escapade nowadays, and don't know how it turned out. I keep reading references to alternate nodelists (note to *C structure: when searching for a nodelist the other week via Internet, I got the "otherlist" before I found a current "official" list), but I'm not sure who's opting out today. Either way, FidoNet is getting down in numbers, and a *C that alienates a significant number of active nodes isn't doing the network a favour - even if he or she is "technically" right. If the network is better off without them, well, at what point do you draw the line? The Canadian Prime Minister says that Canada is much better off without whiners like myself, and an untrained family-class immigrant (who couldn't qualify under Canada's liberal self-sponsorship guidelines where all you need is a skill, three words in English and a pulse) can easily replace me. When the first ten thousand of us left, it wasn't an issue. After a quarter million, the press started t o take notice. When the recession here is over, the flow will resume. Just like FidoNet - the first dozen troublemakers and change agitators were "good riddance". When Zone 1 is down to 15% of its size and is mostly Mail-Only, we've busily put ourselves out of existence. It's amusing that Warren makes reference to "non elected" people, and folks who throw "disrespect" at the *C structure. That's really rich, considering the *C structure threw a lot of disrespect its way by FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 9 22 Apr 2002 overturing a legitimate, ratified election and replacing the incumbent with a "non elected" choice of its own. The real sheep, Warren, are the folks who put up with that kind of contempt without a peep. Bjorn's editorial on "free" health care and his definition of "free" (how come free always appears in quotes nowadays?) is not too far from the original purpose of Canadian universal health care. The point was that no one should be bankrupted by a critical illness. (The #1 cause of bankruptcy in the US is unpaid medical bills.) No one should have a sick child untreated in the middle of the night because they didn't have $100 lying around to pay the doctor. No one should be turned away by a hospital when in need. Unfortunately, it's gotten away from universal catastrophic medical insurance and turned into a giant monster that runs the ENTIRE health-care system. Doctors are now pretty much civil servants, and the government can determine their income and wether they can work or not by giving them a billing number. The public is so afraid of "private, US-style" health care that they don't even want private FACILITIES providing "free" health care. They've been conned by the left that only complete public ownership is needed to "save" the health care system. Even our most die-hard socialist readers can appreciate the fact that the quote "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is nothing more than satire or farce, yet Canadians firmly believe this. Heck, even the Sweedes (you know, that rabid hot-bed of heartless neo-conservatism) have more private-sector health care than Canada. Frank is apparently a very generous man, because he credits Canadians as being smart enough to realise that their health care isn't free. If you poll Canadians (and I'm sure this is done on a semi-regular basis), I'd venture that between 55% and 75% of them will consider it free. That's why they go to emergency rooms when they get a sniffle. These are, of course, the same individuals that believe that making the minimum payments on their credit cards will get them paid off quickly. They're the same folks that believe that it's a good thing to give mothers a year's paid maternity leave, and then are baffled why their taxes go up to pay for it. They're the same people who then push for a tax cut that gives them an extra $50/year that quickly goes to the $100/year in new user fees. If there's one universal truth that unites humanity across the world - Canadians, Americans, Europeans, Chinese, Russians, Indians, Brazilians, South Africans and everyone in between - it's that most of us aren 't very smart. Just like me. On a closing note, I'm starting to think I should get a feed to the FIDONEWS echo at the very least to intereact with my legions of screaming fans. (Bjorn, do I get groupies?) I replaced my old PII Windows NT PC with a screaming, overheating Athlon to better play FlightSim with (no ANSI-based door games for me, thank you very much) so I now have a spare P133 kicking around. It can run OS/2 or NT, but it's designed as a server so it doesn't have a screen. If someone has a good feed of echos in newsgroup format, that would be even better. I might even ask for my old node number back, if a net in Toronto would take a node in Atlanta. Is this even possible? Or is just this sort of thing the reason why the RC got replaced? ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 10 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= REBUTTALS TO PREVIOUS ARTICLES ================================================================= 24 hours By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555 Dear FidoNews Editor, In your last FidoNews editorial you raised the question as to why Swedish is one of the few languages that has two words for the English "day". One for the period between sunrise and sunset and the other for the full 24 hour period. "Dag" and "dygn" in Swedish. As to the why so few languages have this feature, that would be speculation on my part. I can however report that you are not alone. Dutch has a similar distinction. There is "dag" which means pretty much the same as the English "day". It can either be the period during sunrise and sunset as in "day and night" or it could be a 24 hour period, as in "seven days in a week". When explicitly specifying a 24 hour period we use the word "etmaal". The word isn't used all that much in day to day life and I was not a 100% sure about it's exact meaning so I consulted the book shelf. My two dictionaries are a bit sparse on the details. Under "etmaal" they merely say "a period of 24 hours". My encyclopaedia has nothing to say on the matter. So I take it the Dutch word "etmaal" means /any/ 24 hour period, not just the interval between two midnights. In Frisian there is the word "etmiel" or "etmel". That may suggest a celtic origin. OTOH, it may just be borrowed form the Dutch. Some further study revealed that the Spanish know the term "singladura" as a nautical term for 24 hours. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 11 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= EDITOR'S CORNER ================================================================= Russian characters A couple of weeks ago, someone asked, in the Fidonews echo, how to do to be able to show those Russian characters, that occasionally occurs even in international echoes. There are a couple of special programs that can be used, but actually you can manage just fine with standard MS-DOS. The following description is for a DOS-box in Windows 98, but should work just fine with most flavours of MS-DOS and it's clones. In CONFIG.SYS you need to have a line similar to this: devicehigh=D:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(,,5) And then, in your AUTOEXEC.BAT (or, if you prefer, put it in another batch file that is run before your DOS box is opened) you put the following: mode con cp prep=((866,852,855,850,437) D:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega3.cpi) mode con cp sel=437 Ignore some error message complaining over the keyboard not supporting the codepage or whatever junk is coming up. Now all you have to do to display the Russian characters is shell down to DOS from your editor/reader and give the command: mode con cp sel=866 ...and when you want your old codepage back you write: mode con cp sel=437 Obviously you'd better prepare a batch file that has this line: mode con cp sel=%1 ...so you can more easily switch between codepages. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 12 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= FIDONET'S INTERNATIONAL KITCHEN ================================================================= Japanese Kamaboko 10 oz Firm white fish, debone/skin 2 ea Egg whites 1/4 c Sake 2 tb Sugar 1 ts Salt 1/8 ts White pepper 1/3 c Cornstarch 1/2 c Dashi 1 ea Egg for eggwash, 1 ts sake Ever seen those pretty fish rolls with the pink or green exterior? This is them, sans the added food coloring. Using a food processor is almost required for this one but the Japanese use a hand type, not electric. Chop the fish to a paste then add the egg whites. Mix the sake and sugar untl the sugar is desolved then add to the fish mix. Season with the salt and pepper. Add the cornstarch to the dashi until it is disolved then add to the processor and let mix until all is well blended. Lay the fish out on a Maki-su (bamboo mat, also called sushi mat) if you have one, with a towel or cheese cloth underneath. If you dont have the mat, dont despair as it will taste the same rolled on wax paper, just not be as pretty shaped. Remove from Maki-su (or wax paper) leaving cheese cloth or towel on, and place in a steamer for 30 mins. Let cool 30-60 mins on a rack before removing outer cloth covering. Mix the egg-wash by adding the egg, teaspoon of Sake, and a pinch of sugar (food coloring too if desired), and brush this on with a pastry brush then broil a few seconds a few inches from the heat, watching to make sure it doesnt burn. Thats all! Glaze set too. From the kitchen of: xxcarol ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 13 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES ================================================================= BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL #13 I'm busy with my new shell replacement login script, and it's almost foolproof. Let's just say it pops up with: "Yes means No and No means Yes. Delete all files [Y]? " upon login. I'm really starting to worry about the number of account breakins we've been having recently.... The manager isn't though. His main concern appears to be the number of computer-related fatalities on campus. Funny world, isn't it? I flip the excuse card. "DOPPLER EFFECT" Sounds implausible enough that it's plausable - with a little work of course. The phone, the bane of my existance, rings. "Hello, Computer Room" I say, being helpful "Is this the Technicians?" The caller asks. Amazing the number of deaf people that use these things. What the hell, I'm bored.. "Yes it is" I lie (Nixon could've done with me) "I've got a problem with my floppy drive, it doesn't seem to be reading all the time" "Hmmm. How old is the drive?" "About a year.." "And it sometimes fails and sometimes works, but it's starting to fail more and more?" "YES!" "Yeah, it's the Doppler effect of magnetism.." "I thought that only happened with light and sound?" Bullshit mode ON< "Yes, well it's been found that on a spinning surface, like a disk, the particle's magnetic alignment changes, especially when the head is stationary and slightly magnetised in respect to it." "Duh. Oh" "So, what you need to do is to demagnetise the head. Have you got a disk head demagnetising loop?" FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 14 22 Apr 2002 "Uh.... No?" "OK, we'll have to do it the hard way. Have you got your original diskettes for your software?" "Yeah." "Right, chuck them in the drive, one by one, and format them." "WHAT?!" "Don't worry, it won't work - remember the drive is failing. All that happens is that the virgin magnetic field of the disks realigns the magnetic field of the head, because they weren't written by a doppler effected drive." "Oh, yeah!" "So, when it gives you a write error and asks if you want to continue, you say yes. Do it with all your original diskettes, then, to complete the demagnetising process, run a head cleaning diskette through the drive as well, which will pick up the stray magenetic particles clinging to the head." "Oh. Ok. Thanks" "Don't thank me - IT'S MY JOB" I put the phone down, it rings again. It's the big boss. "Simon, could you come to my office please?" ALERT!< Quick as I can, I press the panic button on our LAN-Analyser, or to be more precise, the "Generate 90% random traffic" button "Sure, would you like me to come now, or.. The other phone rings. I chuck it on hands free "Hello, Computer Room, Simon Here, How can I help?" "THE NETWORK IS DOWN, ALL OUR PCS HAVE SHIT THEMSELVES!" the voice on hands -free screams into the mouthpeice of the other phone "I see" I say calmly "Yes, our Monitor shows it up, it looks to be a bad segment of thinwire - please hold the line while I unplug it" I press the "I just got a raise" button (AKA "Stop Traffic Generation") on the Lan Analyser, and almost immediately the user shouts back "Excellent, it's working now, thanks" "That's ok, don't mention it. Have a nice day" The big-boss has been listening to all this, so I reckon that the trip FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 15 22 Apr 2002 to his office won't be so bad after all. I tell him I'll be right down as soon as I secure the net and hang up. On the way down, I invent a new buzzword which always keep management happy. Complete Transient Lockout. Sounds much better than pulling the plug. Like Master-Reset sounds better than off-switch. I get to his office and the staffing officer is there too. Uh-oh. "Simon - How would you like to be our System Manager?" ?!!! "Well... I don't know, I like that hands on.." "Extra 10 grand a year, Varisty Car.." "Monaro?" "Ok" "Sold!" ....And so ends the saga, as it should have at #10. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Post WWIII By Petko Bossakov, 2:535/1 (snipped from ENET.SYSOP) An American died, went to heaven and got to meet God. While they were chatting, the man asked: - God, there's one thing I'm really anxious to learn. Will there be a World War 3? - Yes. - Oh. And will humanity survive it? - Yes. - Will there still be Americans after it? - Yes. - How about their way of life? Will there still be Coca-Cola? - Yes. - And how much will it cost? - 5 rubles. FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 16 22 Apr 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Czech and the lawyer By Warren Bonner A guy from Czechoslovakia was visiting his cousin a lawyer in California, and they went for a hike in Yellowstone Park. While they were hiking they were attacked by 2 bears, one male and one female. The male bear dismembered and ate the Czechoslovakian guy, but the lawyer managed to escape. He ran straight to the nearest Rangers station, and told them what had happened, and they sent out a group of rangers to see what was going on. Sure enough, the Rangers arrived at the place that the lawyer mentioned, and there were the female and the male bears. So one of the Rangers took his rifle and shot the female. The lawyer turned to the ranger and asked "Why did you shoot the female? - it was the male that ate my friend" So the Ranger replies "Would you believe a lawyer if he told you that the Czech is in the male?" Warm Regards, Ol'wdb ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 17 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= TODD COCHRANE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= Fidonet Software List By Todd Cochrane Type: B=BBS D=Door M=Mailer T=Tosser C=Communication (terminal) U=Utility P=Point Software I=Internet (telnet, BinkP...) <+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=+=-=-+-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+> ( Software Name ) |Type| ( Author/Contact ) <+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=|=-=-|-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+> |BBBS Home Page |B | b@bbbs.net | | | | www.bbbs.net/ | |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------| |ELEBBS The Elevator |B | elebbs@elebbs.com | |Software Production | | www.elebbs.com | |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------| |Hermes II Project |B | info@HermesII.org | | | | 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UUE TX FTP| ??? | n/c 218/109 | Matt Munson | BinkP,UUE,TX | 33.6k | n/c 220/10 | groberts|nexusbbs.net |BinkP,FTP,UUE|1.5M+ | n/c 229/1 | Phil Simpson | BinkP UUE FTP | ??? | n/c 229/2000 | Robert Couture |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ??? | 229/622 | Dave Hamilton | BinkP | ??? | n/c 249/116 | Carl Austin Bennett | FTP, UUE |ADSL,60 | n/c 250/98 | Darin McBride | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c 250/99 | Brent McLaren | FTP BinkP | ??? | n/c 250/102 | Darin McBride | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c 267/169 | Philip Lozier | FTP TX | ??? | n/c 261/1380 | Joe Davis | UUE TX | ??? | n/c 275/311 | Shannon Talley|FTP,BinkP,FTP,VMoT,QWK| T1 |n/c 280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo. 297/11 | Michael McCabe | TX | ??? | n/c 323/120 | Craig Healy | VMoT FTP | ??? | n/c 342/3 | Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c 360/5 | Bennie Hutto | FTP VMoT | aDSL | n/c 379/1 | Dale Ross | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c 379/1200 | Chris Cranford | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c 395/670 | Arthur Stark | BinkP VMoT FTP | ??? | n/c 396/45 | Marc Lewis |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ADSL | n/c 396/48 | Ben Ritchey | UUE:BFDS? | 33.6k | n/c 2215/300 | Dennis Haddox | UUE,TX | CABLE | n/c 2320/38 | Janis Kracht | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c 2410/400 | Gary Gilmore | FTP BinkP | 384K,60| n/c 2410/213 | Kevin Bentz | FTP, BinkP, UUE| Cable | n/c 2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo 2624/306 | David Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | n/c 3613/1275 | @ jyates@bsdi.ldl.net | UUE,FTP | 28.8 | n/c 3407/4 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c 3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c 3830/5 | Jeff Schrunk |BinkP FTP TX UUE| ??? | n/c -------------------------------------------------------------- Zone 2 | 20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c 22/222 | Kim Heino | BinkP | ??? | n/c 28/1 | Lody Caenen | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c 31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c 37/37 | Gabor Z. 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| n/c 480/112 | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k | n/c 550/4077 | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE | ----- | n/c 2410/201 | Karsten Ebeling | BinkP UUE | ??? | n/c 2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE,BinkP | 64k | n/c 2432/200 | Sven Dueker | BinkP TX UUE | ??? | n/c 2446/301 | Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K | n/c 2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn 2487/3000 | Steffen Gross | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5002/5002 | Victor Belyakov | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5014/4 | Alex Bagmanov | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 5020/52 | Peter Didenko | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5020/54 | Serge Wizgounoff | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 5020/69 | B Chernivetsky | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5020/238 | Sergey Gubanov | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5030/1251 | K Stepanekov | UUE | ??? | n/c 5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c 5049/12 | Amir Shabashvili | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5054/3 | Andrew Popov | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5080/80 | Eugene Zorin | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 5083/21 | Alexander Uskov | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 5090/2 | Andrew Titov | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c -------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 25 22 Apr 2002 Zone 3 633/260 | Malcolm Miles | FTP,BinkP | 64K | n/c 640/954 | Rick Van Ruth | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c 712/311 | Bob James | TX | ??? | n/c 774/605 | Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c -------------------------------------------------------------- Zone 4 801/161 | Renato Zambon | UUE | 33.6 |n/c 902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c -------------------------------------------------------------- Zone 6 65/3000 | Lawrence Fan | UUE | 33600 | free 653/1009 | Maorong Chen | UUE | ??? | free 654/0 | Bin Li | UUE,BinkP | 33600 | free 654/1501 | Lawrence Fan | UUE,BinkP | 28800 | free -- * FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol * VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various) * UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers * BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks * TX = TransX * NFS = Linux Networking * ifcico = ifcico-compatible virtual mailer * QWK = Quick Packets/Offline mailer "networking" capable ---------------------------------------------- Fidonet oriented news servers news.fidotel.com (currently offline) news.osirusoft.com news.tardis.net nntp://fido.bitsoft.ro nntp://bbs.bitsoft.ro Fidonet oriented chat rooms. room #fidonet 5PM (PDT 11AM GMT) Sundays irc.osirusoft.com (Peers wanted) irc.sinoptix.ro : malay, chinesse, english, #fido, #fidonet, #wwb irc.bitsoft.ro : 6667 russian, english, hebrew, #fido, #wwb irc.tsua.net : 6668 russian, english #fido ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 26 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.109 size 960.8kb date 2002-04-19 The nodelist has 8424 nodes in it and a total of 10959 non-comment entries including 6 zones 63 regions 401 hosts 592 hubs admin overhead 1062 ( 12.61 %) and 838 private nodes 294 nodes down 341 nodes on hold off line overhead 1473 ( 17.49 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 924 ( 10.97 %) 9600 = 7011 ( 83.23 %) (HST = 163 or 2.32 %) (CSP = 1 or 0.01 %) (PEP = 12 or 0.17 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.01 %) (V32 = 4082 or 58.22 %) (V32B = 508 or 7.25 %) (V34 = 4743 or 67.65 %) (V42 = 3856 or 55.00 %) (V42B = 530 or 7.56 %) 2400 = 89 ( 1.06 %) 1200 = 7 ( 0.08 %) 300 = 393 ( 4.67 %) ISDN = 1034 ( 12.27 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 3227 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 27 22 Apr 2002 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 7 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 9 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 6 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 60 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 286 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 3649 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1180 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 3010 ( 35.73 %) MailOnly nodes = 4387 ( 52.08 %) Listed-only nodes = 608 ( 7.22 %) Other = 419 ( 4.97 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 28 22 Apr 2002 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= How to Submit an Article If you wish to submit an article for inclusion in the Fidonews, here are some guidelines, if you send it as an attached file; the preferred method if you want reasonable control over how the published article will appear in the Fidonews: a) Plain ASCII text. 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