On Sun, 7 May 2000, vulcan wrote:
Ok, I said I wouldn't reply to your mails, but, just two points pushed me
over.
> Why don't you take a full-fledged a/c? it has become quite cheap. are
> you a student?
I already have an account - a student's account. Why should I take
another? I get kick-ass speeds b/w vsnl and the rest of the net.
> in a shell account, can you see on html and graphic/ audio/ video
> content on a site.
I can see html - haven't you heard of text browsers? lynx, links, w3m.
Audio, video, images are all noise. The next time you go to a website,
count the number of images - all of them, including spacer gifs. Then
count the number of images you wanted to see. Also, check the sizes.
> there are so many flavours of Linux, do they all include same
Ok. flavours of unix... not linux. distributions of linux. linux is a
flavour of unix. redhat, suse are distros of linux.
> interchangeable version of additional softwares (pine, apache, PERL,
(Point 1 that always ticks me off)
It's perl or Perl; not PERL and yes, they are compatible, though check out
http://www.redhatisnotlinux.com/ (I think) to see what packages are not
distro independent.
> i mean, can pine 3.96 from RHLINUX 6.1 CD be updated to SUSELINUX 6.4
You won't find PINE 3.96 (note capitalisation. PINE is the product, pine
is the implementation.) on RH6.1 CD. More likely 4.10. It is binary
compatible with SuSE.
Now, for the stuff you learnt...
1 through 5 are good. Congratulations. I hope that you learn some more
from Devdas' last mail and this one. Point number 6 is not true as Devdas
has already pointed out.
One more thing you should learn: Include your reply below or interleaved
with the original text. Humans have this strange system of reading
top-down.
> i still could not understand what is this sin in calling Philips by a
> nick name.
(Point 2 that totally ticked me off).
My name is NOT Philips. It's Philip - Two P's, two i's, one l and one h.
No s'es, no double l's. As Devdas has pointed out, it is numerological,
and a matter of my choice.
Finally, about your seti problem.
> > I tried to download Linux version but got confused as the server does
> > not list my celeron400, it lists 386, 486, Px. what should i opt for?
celeron is the successor of the pentium, so you should use that version.
> the right client for pentium class m/c is
> setiathome-2.4.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar
> at least it works on my Cyrix 233.
The 686 is basically for Cyrix chips. It may not work on a Celeron - or
at least not as well.
Hope this has covered all your queries. Sorry for throwing all the
answers into a single mail with a non-descriptive subject.
Philip
--
Only a fool fights in a burning house.
-- Kank the Klingon, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown
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