Hi Aleph, If this is already known just discard the message, since I had the courage to write (the enormous amount of flowing information and knowledge here makes one feel so tiny) I'd like to thank you for such a wonderful job and thanx to everybody behind it too...Bugtraq is the fourth best thing in my life after family,friends and sex :) I'm a system admin. on a small Unix network, after work I build PCs for friends and money :) A friend of mine wanted to buy a cheap PC so I bought him a 166 Pentium with 16 Mb ram, I decided I'd install Win95a Arabic Enabled since there is no Win95 OSR2 Arabic and Win98 would be too heavy on such a machine. After building the machine I tried installing win95 everything went ok till it reached the copying files stage... I got an error message at 98% of the copying process which said the Win95_18.CAB file is corrupted and Windows will attempt to 'fix' the problem, and I kept clicking OK (go ahead fix it just get it over with!!) but it never did and the computer froze. I suspected maybe the CD was corrupted so I went back to the local store and replaced the OEM win95 CD with another one ..same thing happened again, I tried copying the whole CD to partition E:\ of the hard disk and installing from the hard disk yet still got the same message. I went back again to my dealer complaining and he Finally gave me back my money and I decided to buy from another shop another CD, went back home, same error message again F@#$!!! It was 4:00 am already, I was exhausted,frustrated from argueing with my local dealer, and thinking of what to say to the excited guy who was expecting to get his new PC and log on the net tomorrow. Usually when I'm in an awful mood like this I join irc #freeEgypt on Dalnet, complain to friends or just sit there quite watching how their day went. A markhy friend of mine called Himyar aka arbymo pointed out that today 9/9/99 is his girlfriend's birthday and it's a cool date, since I rarely know what day it is, that figure (9/9/99)made an alarm ring in my head and I decided to go to Yahoo and search for Y2K problems maybe they had something to say about 9/9/99, luckily on the main page www.yahoo.com I found topics discussing that issue. I didn't even read them I ran to the other PC and changed the date from the Bios and finally managed to complete installing Win95!! If I had only attempted to install win95 just a couple of hours earlier before 12:00 am 9/9/99 non of this would have happened but I usually come home from work and sleep a couple of hours. Another thing I noticed just before writing this, at work we have a Win98 with a Matrox Millineum G200 vga card when the employee first turned it on today the Matrox MGA desktop software gave an error and win98 gave a blue screen, however when I rebooted everything went fine maybe it's also another 9/9/99 problem ? or am I getting a bit carried away here ? P.S: Sorry if this message is too long or contains English mistakes for I sbeak za arabic language and I did my Pest :) Many thanks to |NaiL| aka NaTaS from #freeEgypt for enlightening me to use Linux and giving me Bugtraq's email. Salam All, oDiuM ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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