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

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux
Subject Re: Marek Novotny scripts for VPN drop protection discussion on the Windows 10 newsgroup today
Date 2018-05-27 13:43 +0200
Message-ID <n8iqte-b7u.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
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On 2018-05-27 13:34, 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.

Thanks for sharing.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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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
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      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
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        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
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