I was reading an article and someone mentioned “stalking themselves on the usenet archives” via Google Groups. I thought, this sounded interesting. While I can’t actually remember posting anything to usenet groups back in the day, doing a quick search reminded me of my very early projects where I work and how far I [...]]]>

I was reading an article and someone mentioned “stalking themselves on the usenet archives” via Google Groups. I thought, this sounded interesting. While I can’t actually remember posting anything to usenet groups back in the day, doing a quick search reminded me of my very early projects where I work and how far I have come (along with the technology). It’s hard to imagine I once struggled trying to set up a simple web server. If you ever used usenet, you should search for yourself, it was fun. Here are some of the posts (along with dates) that I chuckled at. (Sorry, non-geeks may not get it.)

Posted October 3, 1997 in microsoft.public.frontpage.client:

I had FP 97 installed with the web server (1.1 I think, not MS personal)
on my Win NT 4.0 workstation and I upgraded to FP 98(beta).  After I
finshed installing FP 98 the explorer and editor would load and work
fine but whenever I run the server EXE files I get “{location of EXE} is
not a valid Windows NT application.” Does anyone know what is going on?

Stats:

Win NT 4.0 Workstation on a PII 200
Upgraded from FP 97 -> FP 98 Beta
Web server will not run?

Ideas:

I used this same copy of FP 98 on two win95 machines and it runs fine.
Is there a Win NT version? (I didn’t think so) Maybe I have the Windows
95 version?

Thanks for you help.

Posted December 5, 1997 in microsoft.public.frontpage.client:

I’m using Frontpage 98 BETA and the Personal Web server that comes with
it to design a site on a WIN NT 4.0 machine. I want to use a perl
program I wrote and I have placed it in the cgi-bin directory but every
time I try to run it I get a 500 Error in the client and a line in the
log that says:

[Fri Dec 05 14:04:48 1997] httpd: could not create new process: 193

The program runs fine from the command prompt and I have a test script
in the cgi-bin dir that runs okay (it just prints a line to the client).

What am I doing wrong? Why won’t it work? Please help me.
I appreciate all suggestions and help.

Posted December 22, 1997  in microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.activeserverpages:

I am trying to get Perlscript to run on my machine within ASP docs but I
am having trouble. I am testing my setup with a Perlscript/ASP example
(from a CD) that just prints basic stuff like Browser type, version, IP
and so on.

Problem:        I keep getting a 500 error when I try to run the ASP

I am running:   Windows NT 4.0
Frontpage 98
Microsoft Frontpage Personal Web Server 32/3.0
I have Perl32 installed and FP is set to allow scripts

access log says: “GET /cgi-bin/browser.asp HTTP/1.0″ 500 0
error log says: httpd: could not create new process: 193

Any Ideas???

We’d like to invite you to reconnect with SETI@home. Our records show that you’ve been with SETI@home since 20 May 1999, but it’s been 313 days since you last returned a work unit. We want you back, and here’s why:

As we approach our 10th anniversary we are collecting data faster than [...]]]>

Dear Dave Marcucci:

We’d like to invite you to reconnect with SETI@home. Our records show that you’ve been with SETI@home since 20 May 1999, but it’s been 313 days since you last returned a work unit. We want you back, and here’s why:

As we approach our 10th anniversary we are collecting data faster than ever before at the at the world’s largest radio telecope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, using a state-of-the-art multibeam receiver, so we can now measure signals from 7 positions on the sky at once, with greater sensitivity to weak signals compared to the data from the flat feed antenna we’ve used since 1999. We’ve greatly increased the sensitivity of our data analysis, and the likelihood that we’ll find the first signs of extraterrestrial life. We also released a second application, Astropulse, which will look for extremely short pulses of astronomical (and possibly intelligent) origin using the same multibeam data. We are close to finishing work on our Near Time Persistency Checker, which will be the first time we can generate an up-to-date list of interesting points in the sky, and adjust them, as fresh data come in every day.

With these new developments comes an increase in required computing power, for which we depend on people like you. We hope you will consider signing back on with SETI@home, and help in this wonderful scientific venture.

If you experienced problems running SETI@home, please try any of the resources listed at:http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_help.php including the BOINC Online Help System which lets you talk live, over the Internet, with a help volunteer:http://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php

We thank you for your involvement in SETI@home, and hope that you rejoin us in our search for signals from other worlds.

– The SETI@home team

SETI@home – http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
Space Sciences Laboratory / 7 Gauss Way
University of California, Berkeley, CA 92740-7450

Dear SETI@home,

I have been a member for 10 years and my computers have done a lot of analysis for your project.  Still, my numbers are minuscule compared to others in the program.  Nevertheless, you have failed to find the aliens in those 10 years.  It seems cattle herders, hay farmers, and Mexicans have no problems finding them.  They visit some places daily to abduct, experiment, and deliver regular anal probes to these people.  Still, with all that data and high powered techno-gizmo crap you have access to, you haven’t found squat.

So where are the frickin aliens?  So far the only thing I have as a result of being a member of your program is a hot lap and low sperm count as my laptop continues to run at 100% CPU on all cores and a comfy 92 degrees Celsius.  This is why I have shifted my BOINC membership to the PRIMEGRID project, because they are looking for large prime numbers, and prime numbers don’t have intergalactic ships with laser beams that can hide from detection.

Sincerely,
Dave Marcucci

NOTE: This is geek humor, I’m sorry if you don’t get it.

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