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

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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.

-- 
With respect,
= Aragorn =

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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
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        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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