FidoNews · Vol 19, No 16 · 22 Apr 2002
The F I D O N E W S Volume 19, Number 16 22 Apr 2002
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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
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at
the dock.
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INSIDE
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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 François 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.
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EDITORIAL
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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
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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.
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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".
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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.
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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Evolution in action: Operating Systems
by François Thunus,
[2:270/25.1 / fidoarticle <at> telematique <dot> 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: fidosurvey<at>telematique<dot>org
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[<at> and <dot> 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
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CATCALLS FROM THE CHEAP SEATS
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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.
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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
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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?
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REBUTTALS TO PREVIOUS ARTICLES
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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.
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EDITOR'S CORNER
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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.
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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
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CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES
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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?"
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"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.
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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.
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The Czech and the lawyer
By Warren Bonner <wdbonner@pacbell.net>
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
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=================================================================
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 |
| | | http://www.hermesii.org/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Maximus BBS Support |B | sales@lainus.com |
|Page (Non Official) | | http://www.vector11.com/maximus/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|MBSE BBS |B | Michiel Broek |
| | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net |
| | | http://mbse.sourceforge.net |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Mystic BBS |B | http://www.mysticbbs.com/mystic/ |
| | | |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Nexus Bulletin |B | groberts@nexusbbs.net |
|Board System | | http://www.nexusbbs.net/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Proboard, Searchlight, |BC | info@telegrafix.com |
|Telegrafix | | http://www.telegrafix.com |
|Communications | | 540-678-4050 |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|RemoteAccess |B | Bruce Morse |
|Central | | bfmorse@rapro.com |
| | | http://www.rapro.com/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Spitfire BBS |B | MDWoltz@AOL.COM |
|Buffalo Creek Software | |http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Synchronet BBS |BT | sysop@vert.synchro.net |
| | | http://www.synchro.net |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Telegard BBS |B | support@telegard.net |
| | | http://www.telegard.net/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Wildcat Interactive |BTMI| sales@santronics.com |
|Net Server | | http://www.santronics.com |
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|Plantinum Express | |(305)248-3204 |
| | | Santronics Inc. |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Bentstone Capabilities |D | info@stonebenders.com |
|Group | | http://www.srupc.com/mall |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Jibben Software |D | scott@jibben.com |
| | | http://www.jibbensoftware.com/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|JNS Software Door Games|D | Rusty Johnson |
| | | rustyjohnson57@hotmail.com |
| | | 304-733-0113 |
| | | http://www.geocities.com/jnssoftware/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Legend Of The Red |D | |
|Dragon Reborn | | |
|(L.O.R.D.) | | http://www.lordlegacy.org/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|PC Pursuits |D |brucep@pop.kis.net |
| | |(301)240-6653 |
| | |http://www.pcpursuits.com/products.htm |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|S and T Software |D |Mark Bappe |
| | |mark.bappe@bozax.iainc.net |
| | |(770)788-6843 |
| | |http://bozax.iainc.net/public/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Shinning Star BBS Doors|D |nannette@shiningstar.net |
| | |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Sunrise Door Software |D |Al Lawerence |
| | |al@sunrisedoors.com |
| | |(404)256-9518 |
| | |http://www.sunrisedoors.com/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|The Brainex System |D |info@brainex.com |
| | |http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Trade Wars Door Game |D |jpritch@eisonline.com |
| | |http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/ |
| | |1:299/110 |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Vagabond Software |D |Bryan Turner |
| | |vagabond@darktech.org |
| | |http://vagabond.virtualave.net/ |
| | |1:124/7013 |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|FMail Support |T |wijnstra@fmail.nl.eu.org |
| | |http://fmail.nl.eu.org/ |
| | |2:280/1076 |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Squish Tosser |T |http://www.lanius.com/squish.htm |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Argus RITLABS |M |argus@ritlabs.com |
| | |373-2-246889 |
| | |http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ |
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| | |2:469/84 |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|FrontDoor |MTPC|Definite Solutions |
|FrontDoor APX | |sales@defsol.se |
|Mailer/Point Software | |http://www.defsol.se/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|BeeMail Home Page |M |http://beemail.gexonline.net |
| | |Stephen Proffit |
| | |1:211/405 |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|BinkleyTerm XE |M |http://btxe.sourceforge.net/ |
|Frontend Mailer | | |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|BinkD |MI |maloff@corbina.net |
| | |http://2f.ru/binkd/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Fidogate |UIT |Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net |
| | |http://www.fidogate.org/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Fidonet to Internet |IM |Bo Bendtsen |
|Mailer | |sales@terminate.com |
| | |http://www.terminate.com/fido2int.htm |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|GiGo Software |UI |http://www.gigo.com/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Internet Rex |IM |cruden@cs.ualberta.ca |
| | |http://plaza.v-wave.com/InternetRex/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Tmail |IM |http://www.tmail.spb.ru/index-19.htm |
|(Russian /w English DL)| | |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|TransX Multiboard |M |support@multiboard.com |
|Communications Inc. | |http://www.multiboard.com/software/ |
| | |transx.html |
| | |1:2401/305 |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|TransNet |I |transnet@ressl.com.ar |
| | |http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Watergate |I |ramon@sbbs.se |
| | |http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/ |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|JetSys-Home of JetMail |TU |http://www.jetsys.de/ |
|JetStat and other Atari| | |
|Fidonet utilities | | |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|APoint (Author) |P |http://www.apoint.websale.net/index.htm|
| | |http://www.apoint-mail.de (Co-Autho) |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|CrossPoint |P |("Original" version) |
| | |http://www.crosspoint.de |
| | |http://www.apoint-mail.de |
| | |(OpenXP Projekt) |
| | |http://www.openxp.com (English) |
| | |http://www.openxp.de (German) |
| | |CrossPoint (XP2 Team) |
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| | |http://www.xp2.de |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|WinPoint95 |P |http://www.schenksmir.de/wp/english |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|The OpenXP CrossPoint |P |http://www.happyarts.de/xp |
|Projekt | | |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|Terminate Terminal |P |http://www.terminate.com |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
|PPoint-FTS compatible |P |http://www.alcuf.ca/ppoint.htm |
|E-Mail System | | |
|-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
\====================================================================/
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Fidonet Via Internet Hubs provided by FidoTel.com
Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed,| Basic Rate
| | |latency|
-----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------
Zone 1 | | | |
10/3 | Brenda Donovan | FTP,UUE,BinkP | 384K,30| n/c
10/345 | Todd Cochrane | FTP,BinkP,VMOT | T1,! | n/c
18/500 | Ross Cassell | FTP, BinkP |128K+,!| n/c
103/5 | Mark Luetger | BinkP | CABLE | n/c
103/301 | Joe Jared | BinkP,FTP,NFS | 384k,!| n/c
103/401 | Warren Bonner | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c
105/8 | Russ Johnson | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k | n/c
105/72 | Larry James | FTP, BinkP | aDSL | $50/yr
106/1 | Steve Loupe | BinkP, FTP | 768k | FREE
106/2000 | Bob Juge | BinkP VMoT FTP TX| ??? | n/c
106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP, VMoT | aDSL,60| n/c
107/453 | Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo.
134/11 | Michael Grant | FTP, BinkP, VMoT UUE, IFCICO,TransX
aDSL, 60 | n/c
138/146 | Marc Blakely | BinkP,FTP | ??? | n/c
140/1 | Bob Seaborn | FTP,BinkP | T3,30 | $5/$16
142/906 | Chris Griffin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
150/220 | Dave Nemeth | UUE | ??? | n/c
FIDONEWS 19-16 Page 23 22 Apr 2002
153/7715 | Dallas Hinton | BinkD, FTP | CABLE | ???
167/133 | Stephen Monteith | BinkP | 128k+ | n/c
167/166 | Jesse Dooling | POP? 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. Papp | BinkP | ??? | n/c
47/999 | Andrej Kirejev | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
53/558 |Vladimir Hrusca|POP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP,ifcico|2mbs|??
201/329 | Mats Wallin | VMoT TX | ??? | n/c
201/505 | Goran Eriksson | BinkP | ??? | n/c
201/600 | Håkan Andersson |BinkP,FTP |512kbps| n/c
203/600 | Mikael Karlsson |BinkP,FTP,TX,UUE| 512k | n/c
211/37 | Torbjorn Mohn | BinkP | 8/2mb | n/c
221/360 | Tommi Koivula | BinkP,UUE | ??? | n/c
236/205 | Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c
240/6298 | Steve Tell | BinkP UUE | ??? | n/c
246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | n/c
252/110 | David Rance | UUE | ??? | n/c
255/90 | Simon Avery | UUE | ??? | n/c
263/950 | Sean Rima | TX UUE | ??? | n/c
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280/1027 | Lukas de Groen | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
280/1601 | Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
280/4312 | Jos Huijnen | BinkP ifcico UUE TX| ??? | n/c
280/5003 | Kees van Eeten | BinkP ifcico | ??? | n/c
292/620 | Eddy Missoul | VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 64k | n/c
292/624 | Steven Leeman | UUE | 64k | n/c
292/854 | Ward Dossche | BinkP UUE TX | ??? | n/c
292/907 | Bart Verhaeghe | BinkP,VMoT,UUE | 64K | n/c
292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | 768k | n/c
301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | 768k | n/c
332/807 | Roberto Mascolo | BinkP | ??? | n/c
333/0 | M Gianformaggio | BinkP | ??? | n/c
335/534 | Mario Mure | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k | n/c
335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
341/14 | Rafael Suarez | BinkP VMoT | ??? | n/c
341/51 | Jose.Maria Tejada | VMoT | |
341/66 | Angel Ripoll | VMoT | |
343/168 | Jose Casanova | VMoT | |
344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c
346/3 | Carlos Navarro | UUE | ??? | n/c
347/1 | Javi Polo | UUE | |
348/105 | Alejandro Estraviz| BinkP UUE | |
382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
400/555 | Ofir Michaeli | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
400/557 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
423/81 | Milos Bajer | BinkP | ??? | n/c
461/256 | Andrew Rutkas | BinkP | ??? | n/c
461/640 | Alex Semenyaka |BinkP ifcico UUE| ??? | n/c
465/204 | Va Milushnikov | BinkP | 33.6k | n/c
469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
469/128 | Oleg Vasenyoff | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | 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
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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
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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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 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 3227
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
Xenia
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 7
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 9
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XP Seadog 6
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XR Opus 1.03 60
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XW Fido >12M 286
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 3649
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 1180
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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]
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