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Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux
Subject Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today
Date 2018-05-27 06:56 -0700
Message-ID <fmvro1F3c9dU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 5/27/18 4:34 AM, Aragorn wrote:
> On Sunday 27 May 2018 04:33, Bob J Jones conveyed the following to
> alt.os.linux...
> 
>> There is a search going on today for the Marek Novotny Linux scripts
>> for VPN drop protection on the Windows 10 newsgroup today:
>>    SUBJ: VPN for connection that randomly drops?
>>     URL: http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=1104224 <- Google
>>     doesn't archive Usenet Win10
>>    NEWS: news://nntp.aioe.com:119/alt.comp.os.windows-10/ Message-ID:
>>    <pe6hci$jdm$1@dont-email.me>
>>
>> The question is whether Marek's wonderful network-testing scripts to
>> test for VPN being still established and then to drop the network of
>> the VPN fails, will work on Windows 10 in the new Bash Shell.
> 
> Marek's scripts were all specifically written for GNU/Linux and the GNU
> Bash shell.  The scripts will most likely run on Windows with Bash
> installed, _but_ Windows with Bash is still not a UNIX system, let alone
> GNU/Linux, so the chance is big that the scripts would bail out at some
> point due to a certain file not being where it is expected to be, or
> perhaps because of the difference in nomenclature between certain
> aspects of Windows and UNIX.
> 
> An example could for instance be that Windows does not use the
> traditional UNIX /dev filesystem, even though I believe it has something
> equivalent for that.  But insofar as I know Marek's scripts were never
> adapted to keep the Windows filesystem hierarchy into account.
> 
> The point is therefore that the only way to make sure whether the
> scripts would be fully functional on Microsoft Windows would be to
> download them and execute them.
> 
>> Anyone know?
>> His Github account listed in the scripts doesn't seem to be working.
> 
> I was friends with Marek and we talked quite a bit about personal stuff.
> Among other things, he told me that he was having severe health issues ─
> concretely, he had a blood clot in one of his lungs, and his doctors
> were quite worried about that, not to mention that the blood thinners he
> had to take brought about their own problems.  He had been rushed to
> hospital several times already.
> 
> My last communication with Marek dates back to early October 2017.
> After that he suddenly went quiet.  There were no new posts from him on
> Usenet, there were no more emails, his GitHub account was terminated,
> and the two email addresses I had for him bounced.
> 
> Even though there has been some discussion in another newsgroup about it
> ─ in which a couple of idiots, badmouths and bullies came up with an
> explanation which was totally unfitting Marek ─ the general consensus
> among those who've interacted with him and who were in regular contact
> with him via the internet is that there is no other explanation than
> that Marek has passed away.  He was only 49 years old.
> 
> I'm afraid that's all the information I can give you, both on account of
> Marek as a person and the scripts he wrote.
> 
If he has passed I am truly sorry to hear it. He and I had some 
significant disagreements but I always thought he was (and if he is 
still alive, is) a good person. I am disabled myself and have little 
money... and when he heard my wife was in need of a computer he sent, 
for free and even with shipping at his own expense, an older computer of 
his. My wife still uses it pretty much daily, and she and I speak of and 
are thankful for his kindness to a stranger often.

There are not many who would have reached out to a stranger as he did, 
no less one he had some contentious discussions with. I wish he and his 
family the best.

-- 
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They 
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel 
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

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Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Bob J Jones <bobjjones@startMail.com> - 2018-05-27 02:33 +0000
  Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-26 20:00 -0700
    Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today G B <gb@gb.com> - 2018-05-26 23:15 -0400
      Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-26 20:24 -0700
        Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-05-27 03:41 +0000
          Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-26 20:56 -0700
            Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-05-27 04:23 +0000
              Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-27 09:12 -0700
  Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-05-27 13:34 +0200
    Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-05-27 13:43 +0200
    Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-27 04:44 -0700
    Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-27 06:56 -0700
      Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Jamson Yang <JamsonYang@invoice.com> - 2018-05-27 16:41 +0000
        Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today G B <gb@gb.com> - 2018-05-27 12:59 -0400
        Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-05-27 19:05 +0200
          Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2018-05-28 11:22 +0100
    Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Bob J Jones <bobjjones@startMail.com> - 2018-05-27 16:34 +0000
      Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-27 10:13 -0700
    Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2018-05-27 16:54 +0000
  Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Bob J Jones <bobjjones@startMail.com> - 2018-05-27 23:34 +0000
    Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-27 17:51 -0700
      Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-05-28 09:35 +0000
        Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-28 03:33 -0700
        Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-28 07:13 -0700
        Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-28 09:31 -0700
          Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Fuck You Snit <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-30 18:46 -0700
            Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Fuck You Snit <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-31 06:46 -0700
          Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Fuck You Snit <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-30 21:55 -0700
        Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Bob J Jones <bobjjones@startMail.com> - 2018-05-29 00:25 +0000
          Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Fuck You Snit <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-31 05:28 -0700

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