diff --git a/encode/uuencode.rb b/encode/uuencode.rb
index 6058f65..77c4f67 100644
--- a/encode/uuencode.rb
+++ b/encode/uuencode.rb
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ def _uudecode_file(file, outfile)
 		next if line =~ /[a-z]/
 		next if line == nil
 		next unless ((((line[0].ord - 32) & 077) + 2) / 3).to_i == (line.length/4).to_i
-		line.unpack("u").each{|x| outfile.print x}
+		#line.unpack("u").each{|x| outfile.print x}
+		line.unpack("u").each{|x| outfile.write x}
 	end
 
 	puts "No \"end\" found!!!"
diff --git a/news/article.rb b/news/article.rb
index baded62..8118343 100644
--- a/news/article.rb
+++ b/news/article.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-# $Dwarf: article.rb,v 1.114 2005/05/12 07:39:53 ward Exp $
-# $Source$
-
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Ward Wouts <ward@wouts.nl>
 #
@@ -23,7 +20,7 @@ require Pathname.new(__FILE__).dirname + '../news/newsrc'
 require 'tempfile'
 require 'timeout'
 #require 'yaml'
-require 'profiler'
+#require 'profiler' # removed from ruby?
 
 class ArticleError < RuntimeError; end
 class TempError < ArticleError; end
@@ -152,7 +149,7 @@ def initialize(nntpservers, groupname, newsrc="~/.newsrc", maxage=0)
 #			p server
 #			p Time.now
 			begin
-				timeout(60) do
+				Timeout.timeout(60) do
 #p "connecting"
 					@connections[server]["nntp"] = Net::KANNTP.new(server, 119, @serverpasses[server]['user'], @serverpasses[server]['pass'])
 				end
@@ -180,7 +177,7 @@ def reconnect(server)
 	retries = 0
 	begin
 		puts "Trying to kill old connection #{Time.now}"
-		timeout(10) do
+		Timeout.timeout(10) do
 			@connections[server]["nntp"].quit
 		end
 		puts "Killed old connection #{Time.now}"
@@ -192,7 +189,7 @@ def reconnect(server)
 		puts "Trying to reconnect #{Time.now}"
 		sleep 3
 		#timeout(180) do
-		timeout(60) do
+		Timeout.timeout(60) do
 			@connections[server]["nntp"] = Net::KANNTP.new(server, 119, @serverpasses[server]['user'], @serverpasses[server]['pass'])
 		end
 		resp = @connections[server]["nntp"].mode_reader
@@ -391,7 +388,7 @@ def get_group_info(server)
 	first = ""
 	last = ""
 	begin
-		timeout(30) do
+		Timeout.timeout(30) do
 			begin
 				resp, count, first, last, name = @connections[server]["nntp"].group(@group)
 			rescue Net::NNTPReplyError
@@ -425,7 +422,7 @@ def get_xhdr(server, range, header)
 	resp = ""
 	lines = []
 	begin
-		timeout(180) do
+		Timeout.timeout(180) do
 			begin
 				p Time.now if Debuglevel > 1
 				puts "getting headers: #{header}, #{range}" if Debuglevel > 1
@@ -481,7 +478,7 @@ def get_xover(server, range)
 		ed = start
 	end
 	begin
-		timeout(180) do
+		Timeout.timeout(180) do
 			begin
 				p Time.now if Debuglevel > 1
 				puts "getting headers: #{range}" if Debuglevel > 1
@@ -539,7 +536,7 @@ def get_body(server, message)
 	messid = ""
 	list = []
 	begin
-		timeout(180) do
+		Timeout.timeout(180) do
 			begin
 				list = []
 				resp, id, messid, list = @connections[server]["nntp"].body(message)
diff --git a/ripnews.rb b/ripnews.rb
index 035ba55..2af18c7 100755
--- a/ripnews.rb
+++ b/ripnews.rb
@@ -50,20 +50,20 @@ def aprofile_mem(group)
 		groups = {}
 		ObjectSpace.each_object { |x|
 			if not [Array,Hash].include? x.class
-			e = nil
-			begin
-				e = MEntry.new( x.class, Marshal::dump(x).size )
-			rescue TypeError # undumpable
-				e = MEntry.new( x.class, 0 )
+				e = nil
+				begin
+					e = MEntry.new( x.class, Marshal::dump(x).size )
+				rescue TypeError # undumpable
+					e = MEntry.new( x.class, 0 )
+				end
+				if groups.has_key? e.c
+					groups[e.c].mem += e.mem
+					groups[e.c].total += 1
+				else
+					groups[e.c] = GroupEntry.new( e.c, e.mem, 1 )
+				end
 			end
-			if groups.has_key? e.c
-				groups[e.c].mem += e.mem
-				groups[e.c].total += 1
-			else
-				groups[e.c] = GroupEntry.new( e.c, e.mem, 1 )
-			end
-		end
-	}
+		}
 		File.open( "mem_log", "a+" ) { |file|
 			file << "Group #{group}\n"
 			total = 0
@@ -547,11 +547,17 @@ def get_multi(subj, group)
 #			puts "inside thread post pass\n"
 			if UUEncode.is_uuencoded(tbody)
 				puts "	UUDecoding..."
-				if tfile
-					tmode, tfilename, tbody = UUEncode.uudecode(tfile, tfileout)
-				else
-					tmode, tfilename, tbody = UUEncode.uudecode(tbody)
-				end
+                begin
+				  if tfile
+					  tmode, tfilename, tbody = UUEncode.uudecode(tfile, tfileout)
+				  else
+					  tmode, tfilename, tbody = UUEncode.uudecode(tbody)
+				  end
+                rescue Encoding::UndefinedConversionError
+					puts "#{$!}"
+					puts "	Skipping article..."
+					Thread.current.exit
+                end
 			elsif YEnc.is_yencoded(tbody)
 				puts "	YDecoding..."
 				begin
@@ -683,7 +689,7 @@ def get_max_file_length(tempdir=".")
 	name = "a"*500
 	name = "#$$#{name}"
 	begin
-		file = File.new("#{tempdir}/#{name}", "w", 0644).close
+		File.new("#{tempdir}/#{name}", "w", 0644).close
 		FileUtils.rm("#{tempdir}/#{name}")
 	rescue Errno::ENAMETOOLONG
 		name = name[0...-1]