From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-krusty-motorsports.com Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #314 Reply-To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net Sender: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Errors-To: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Precedence: bulk diesel-benz-digest Friday, May 5 2000 Volume 01 : Number 314 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles John Meister Digest Coordinator Contents: the links on Diesel SUV news... major amperage... Serious warning: Virus - Windoze users take care lights galore... suggestion... Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 11:14:06 -0700 From: john Subject: the links on Diesel SUV news... Paul, et.al., found this in the Diesel Benz digest http://wagoneers.com/DieselBenz/digests/diesel-benz-v1-312.txt Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 12:49:06 -0700 Subject: diesels in the news... http://www.detroitdiesel.com/markets/mktauto.htm http://www.detroitdiesel.com/markets/automotive/adelta1.htm http://ca.biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000111/mi_detroit_1.html http://www.theautochannel.com/news/press/date/20000111/press005701.html john - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.WAGONEERS.com/JEEPS/jeep-family-March-2000-1.jpg SuperDawg, SuperPup (the little wagoneer), and the J3000 ...don't leave life without Jesus, please! Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... - ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 00:24:54 -0700 From: john Subject: major amperage... I just installed IPF replacement headlights on "Superdawg" and also a set of IPF 800 Driving lights... To test it out I turned on the lights and flipped on the high beams and then the IPF 800's... yikes... the amp gauge went to the right in a major way! :) For grins I turned on the fog lights too... then I did the math. check it out! http://wagoneers.com/JEEPS/IPF-lights/40.83-amps.jpg I was putting out about 490 Watts... drawing an estimated 40.83 Amps for just the lights only... My alternator is most likely only a 56 amp unit. (stock was 42A, but since it came with factory a/c it probably was upgraded... other options were 78A, but since it's a 6 cylinder it isn't likely to get the biggest one...)... So... My guess is I'll be replacing the alternator pretty soon... :) john - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.WAGONEERS.com/JEEPS/jeep-family-March-2000-1.jpg SuperDawg, SuperPup (the little wagoneer), and the J3000 ...don't leave life without Jesus, please! Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... - ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 09:34:04 -0700 From: john Subject: Serious warning: Virus - Windoze users take care actually it's a Trojan horse, but either way it's bad news... This is one reason why digest.net doesn't allow attachments! just DELETE it. I'll post a copy of the vbs script (modified so it doesn't work) at: http://www.wagoneers.com/UNIX/PC-info/reasons.html Oh, for list content... I installed my IPF lights on Superdawg last night... see http://www.wagoneers.com/JEEPS/IPF-lights Will be installing the same kind of lights I had on Fritz on my son's 67 J3000. I'll be writing more on the wiring harness setup, I think it's a great fire prevention tool for older rigs, both Benz's and Jeeps... john DETAILS: - -------- At 07:27 AM 5/4/00 -0700, you wrote: >We had a new virus hit today.... it replicates like Melissa did in 97 and sends itself with the subject "ILOVEYOU". JUST DELETE THE MESSAGE DO NOT OPEN IT. it comes with a .vbs attachment... they shut down our mail server at work. I saw several on my unix workstations, rofl... VBS doesn't affect a UNIX/LINUX system.... :) So I printed out the script. It goes right into the Windoze registry. Of course it has to be executed by clicking on the attachment. From the script it looks like it originated in the Phillipines.... Not fun... SLASHDOT INFO: The UK got slammed hard by it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_736000/736080.stm on http://www.slashdot.org more info: Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 04, -at-07:46AM from the just-when-the-last-rash-cleared-up dept. Loquis was the first of seven billion readers to submit this story about the I Love You Virus and the UK. Its not really a virus: its a trojan that proclaims its love for the recipient and requests that you open its attachment. On a first date even! It then loves you so much that it sends copies of itself to everyone in your addressbook and starts destorying files on your drive. Course they estimate that it's infected 10% of the UK. Pine/Elm/Mutt users as always laugh maniacally as the trojan shuffles countless wasted packets over saturated backbones filling overworked SMTP servers everywhere. Sysadmins are seen weeping in the alleys. Update: 05/04 03:12 by CT: My Roommate Kurt "The Pope" DeMaagd has written a better summary of the trojan and more importantly a HOWTO fix it. Windows users only ;) Requires registry hacking, so its not for everyone. WAIT, there is more: There is a new threat for Eudora users too involving the creative use of a *.lnk file that executes a file placed in the attachment directory, another "feature" provided for our convenience by microsoft... I think I'm going to go down and buy a new harddrive and setup Linux as my primary workstation at home... This kind of stuff is just too much excitement for me... ;) john ======================================================================== Some friendly internet tips: ======================================================================== 1. If you use Microsoft Outlook or Netscape - Email PLAIN TEXT only! Otherwise, it can't be read in a UNIX shell... 2. Before emailing a warning or some message of dire import, check out http://www.snopes.com OR http://www.ciac.org/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html 3. Without a DATE, specific location or names, how can we tell it's true? 4. Before forwarding an email remove all the headers and ">>>>>" from it! 5. Using all UPPER CASE LETTERS IS LIKE SHOUTING. don't, please. :) ======================================================================== john-at-wagoneers.com http://www.wagoneers.com ======================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 10:02:46 -0700 From: john Subject: lights galore... Someone asked me for the funny link that was posted (the one about the coffee can) and I found it and went back... seems like the designer/engineer on that page ALSO did a light upgrade... check his out: http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/mycoffeecan/light.html his other parodies are at: http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/mycoffeecan/ my light upgrades are a bit more serious, found at: http://www.wagoneers.com/JEEPS/IPF btw, remember that I've got a search engine setup for the digests now... if you have ideas on how to make it more useful let me know... I'm working on having it display the line from the page next... :) john - ---------------------------------------------------- john-at-wagoneers.com http://www.wagoneers.com Snohomish, WA, where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... Real FREEDOM comes through knowing Jesus http://www.wagoneers.com/BIBLE/ - ---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 17:17:22 -0700 From: john Subject: suggestion... I'd like to make a suggestion, take it for what it's worth, but since the "I-LOVE-YOU" virus has morphed to "FW:JOKE", I'd highly recommend that before opening any attachments that you know who sent it and that they told you before hand what it was. If bad things start happening - just shut the computer off... boot from a floppy into dos and try to fix it... if you know how... a good basic rule: don't send attachments without permission, and NEVER just open one up... even after virus checking... the virus s/w may be out of date, or not setup for macro viruses. This thing has taken some major corporations off line today. The convenience vs. security issue raised it's ugly head in a major way here. Exchange and outlook do some cool things... but man are there security problems because of it... My server is running Linux and is doing fine. The virus was there, I could see it and look at it and not worry about it. I just hope they catch the low life that created this thing... I'm not a fan of microsoft products, but I am a user, by choice... and I hate to see stuff like this happen. Hope no one I know got creamed by this thing... :( john - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- john-at-wagoneers.com HP-UX, Solaris, Linux http://www.wagoneers.com/UNIX/ http://wagoneers.com/UNIX/Courses.html http://wagoneers.com/pages/ComputerSurvival-101.html http://www.wagoneers.com/UNIX/LINUX/year-of-the-penguin.html - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #314 *********************************