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  Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-11-18 09:30 +0100
    Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2018-11-18 04:32 -0500
      Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-11-18 15:00 +0100
        Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-11-18 20:25 +0000
      Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-11-18 20:08 +0000
    Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-11-18 20:04 +0000
      Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today vpn user  <vpnuser@example.com> - 2018-11-24 06:09 +0000
        Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-11-25 00:55 +0000

#51717 — Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today

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.
> 
> Anyone know?
> His Github account listed in the scripts doesn't seem to be working.

I have worked together with Marek on a couple of scripts in the past, 
and we kept contact.  To the best of my knowledge, Marek unfortunately 
left these mortal realms in October 2017.  He was only 49 years old.

Marek was suffering from several life-threatening medical issues, and it 
had already been a close call a couple of times.  He was still under 
medical treatment for a blood clot in his left lung during my last 
communications with him ─ he even kept in touch with me while he was at 
the hospital.  However, the blood thinners they gave him had some very 
nasty side effects, and presumably that would have been the cause of 
death.

Don't believe anything Snit says, by the way.  Apart from being a troll 
who's been bullying GNU/Linux users for well over 15 years already, he's 
also a pathological liar and a sociopath.  I've had my own dealings with 
him in the (by now luckily distant) past.

-- 
With respect,
= Aragorn =

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#51718

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:
> 
> I have worked together with Marek on a couple of scripts in the past, 

Eternal September is having problems right now. Looks
like index damage. Posts from May26 are being re-delivered
as if they were new messages.

For the time being, treat what looks like necroposts from E-S with suspicion.

Looks like something will need to be re-built on the server.

See "eternal-september.support" for details.

    Paul

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#51719

On Sunday 18 November 2018 10:32, Paul conveyed the following to 
alt.os.linux...

> 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:
>> 
>> I have worked together with Marek on a couple of scripts in the past,
> 
> Eternal September is having problems right now. Looks
> like index damage. Posts from May26 are being re-delivered
> as if they were new messages.
> 
> For the time being, treat what looks like necroposts from E-S with
> suspicion.
> 
> Looks like something will need to be re-built on the server.
> 
> See "eternal-september.support" for details.

Yeah, I noticed it when I was looking at the other newsgroups.  My news 
reader is set up to sort the group list alphabetically, and this group 
here was the first group with "new" posts that I looked at, so I hadn't 
noticed the dates when I sent my reply. :-/

Not the first time that E-S is having trouble, though, and it won't be 
the last time either.  But then again, it's a free service and most of 
the time, it works rather well, so I guess we shouldn't complain. ;)

-- 
With respect,
= Aragorn =

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#51723

On 2018-11-18, Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> wrote:
> On Sunday 18 November 2018 10:32, Paul conveyed the following to 
> alt.os.linux...
>
>> 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:
>>> 
>>> I have worked together with Marek on a couple of scripts in the past,
>> 
>> Eternal September is having problems right now. Looks
>> like index damage. Posts from May26 are being re-delivered
>> as if they were new messages.
>> 
>> For the time being, treat what looks like necroposts from E-S with
>> suspicion.
>> 
>> Looks like something will need to be re-built on the server.
>> 
>> See "eternal-september.support" for details.
>
> Yeah, I noticed it when I was looking at the other newsgroups.  My news 
> reader is set up to sort the group list alphabetically, and this group 
> here was the first group with "new" posts that I looked at, so I hadn't 
> noticed the dates when I sent my reply. :-/
>
> Not the first time that E-S is having trouble, though, and it won't be 
> the last time either.  But then again, it's a free service and most of 
> the time, it works rather well, so I guess we shouldn't complain. ;)

I was using Eternal-September when it was called Motzarella. Before that I 
used another German news server, news.individual.net (but I think it had a 
different name before that one – found it, it was news.cis.dfn.de). 

-- 
The more I see of Windows, the more I like Linux.

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#51722

On 2018-11-18, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> 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:
>> 
>> I have worked together with Marek on a couple of scripts in the past, 
>
> Eternal September is having problems right now. Looks
> like index damage. Posts from May26 are being re-delivered
> as if they were new messages.

No wonder. I thought it was weird that I was seeing posts about Marek 
Novotny now. Thanks for the heads up. Eternal-September seems to be working 
fine in the other two newsgroups I subscribe to. (At least the indexes seem 
right.)

> For the time being, treat what looks like necroposts from E-S with suspicion.
>
> Looks like something will need to be re-built on the server.
>
> See "eternal-september.support" for details.
>
>     Paul


-- 
The more I see of Windows, the more I like Linux.

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#51720

On 2018-11-18, Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> 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.
>> 
>> Anyone know?
>> His Github account listed in the scripts doesn't seem to be working.
>
> I have worked together with Marek on a couple of scripts in the past, 
> and we kept contact.  To the best of my knowledge, Marek unfortunately 
> left these mortal realms in October 2017.  He was only 49 years old.
>
> Marek was suffering from several life-threatening medical issues, and it 
> had already been a close call a couple of times.  He was still under 
> medical treatment for a blood clot in his left lung during my last 
> communications with him ─ he even kept in touch with me while he was at 
> the hospital.  However, the blood thinners they gave him had some very 
> nasty side effects, and presumably that would have been the cause of 
> death.
>
> Don't believe anything Snit says, by the way.  Apart from being a troll 
> who's been bullying GNU/Linux users for well over 15 years already, he's 
> also a pathological liar and a sociopath.  I've had my own dealings with 
> him in the (by now luckily distant) past.

Marek Novotny gave me good advice several times (it's why I'm using slrn 
now and went with Digital Ocean for my wife's Moodle servers). And, speaking 
of "Snit", Marek even sent him a Mac laptop, because he figured he needed it. 
Salt of the earth. I was sorry to hear about his medical issues (didn't know 
about them until his posts stopped). May he rest in peace.   

-- 
The more I see of Windows, the more I like Linux.

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#51784

On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 20:04:04 -0000 (UTC), RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Marek Novotny gave me good advice several times (it's why I'm using slrn 
> now and went with Digital Ocean for my wife's Moodle servers). And, speaking 
> of "Snit", Marek even sent him a Mac laptop, because he figured he needed it. 
> Salt of the earth. I was sorry to hear about his medical issues (didn't know 
> about them until his posts stopped). May he rest in peace.

Marek helped me greatly set up my vpn scripts on Ubuntu.
He wrote the scripts and I tested them for him.
I never communicated with him over email but only over Usenet.

I care about privacy where Marek was wonderfully helpful (where he wrote 
most of the vpn scripts I still use today).

When Marek returned from that first stroke, he again was very helpful 
(we had issues with DNS leaks under vpn, for example).

I'm amazed that he sent Snit a laptop as I can't think of a worse Usenet
citizen than Snit (well, maybe that Burford, Anonymous, Nescio, Burke, etc,
set of automation trolls are even worse).

Snit even wrote an entire idiotic video about me, where I was amazed 
at how utterly stupid Snit is. Message-ID: <D6025E05.BA636%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/PZuec56EWB0/qSXecrnZAQAJ>
<http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?STYPE=msgid&A=0&MSGI=%3CD6025E05.BA636%25usenet%40gallopinginsanity.com%3E>

It's sad but the stupidity of people like Snit is shocking, and worse, Snit
posted that inane video over 400 times before I stopped counting, so, not
only was Snit unfathomably stupid, but also insanely stubborn.

Snit was one of the few people I've dealt with who are literally too stupid
to learn, where, Marek had to be a saint to send him anything, especially a
laptop.

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#51796

On 2018-11-24, vpn user <vpnuser@example.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 20:04:04 -0000 (UTC), RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Marek Novotny gave me good advice several times (it's why I'm using slrn 
>> now and went with Digital Ocean for my wife's Moodle servers). And, speaking 
>> of "Snit", Marek even sent him a Mac laptop, because he figured he needed it. 
>> Salt of the earth. I was sorry to hear about his medical issues (didn't know 
>> about them until his posts stopped). May he rest in peace.
>
> Marek helped me greatly set up my vpn scripts on Ubuntu.
> He wrote the scripts and I tested them for him.
> I never communicated with him over email but only over Usenet.
>
> I care about privacy where Marek was wonderfully helpful (where he wrote 
> most of the vpn scripts I still use today).
>
> When Marek returned from that first stroke, he again was very helpful 
> (we had issues with DNS leaks under vpn, for example).
>
> I'm amazed that he sent Snit a laptop as I can't think of a worse Usenet
> citizen than Snit (well, maybe that Burford, Anonymous, Nescio, Burke, etc,
> set of automation trolls are even worse).
>
> Snit even wrote an entire idiotic video about me, where I was amazed 
> at how utterly stupid Snit is. Message-ID: <D6025E05.BA636%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
><https://groups.google.com/d/msg/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/PZuec56EWB0/qSXecrnZAQAJ>
><http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?STYPE=msgid&A=0&MSGI=%3CD6025E05.BA636%25usenet%40gallopinginsanity.com%3E>
>
> It's sad but the stupidity of people like Snit is shocking, and worse, Snit
> posted that inane video over 400 times before I stopped counting, so, not
> only was Snit unfathomably stupid, but also insanely stubborn.
>
> Snit was one of the few people I've dealt with who are literally too stupid
> to learn, where, Marek had to be a saint to send him anything, especially a
> laptop.

"Snit" had complained (mentioned?) that his wife's computer was on the 
fritz, so Marek sent the computer for her. That was just the way he was.

-- 
The more I see of Windows, the more I like Linux.

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