On Sunday 22 April 2001 17:33, Matt Bandy wrote:
> May I also recommend that the project register a domain name with the
> OpenNIC project. OpenNIC is an alternative DNS root server. They operate a
An alternative *root server*? Man... I learn something new every day --
never even knew there was such a thing!
"Hey, let's remap the Internet in our spare time..."
"Cool, why not!"
;)
> > > The fee covers two years and is 70$ US.
BTW, some domain registration services are much less expensive -- for
instance, directnic.com (which I have used) offers .com, .net, and .org for
$15 per year, and I recently saw a banner ad talking about $9 per year...
don't remember what that was for, though. Typically these companies allow you
to transfer registration to them for little or no money -- directnic will do
it for free, if memory serves.
Sorry if this is unwanted, but I tend to be frugal with my money so I
thought the knowledge might be useful. :) Free software -- of which LyX is
a shining example, IMO -- has allowed me and many other low- to middle-class
persons to afford much better hardware than we otherwise could. (For the
price of PhotoShop alone, for instance, one can buy a very good motherboard &
CPU(s), or a whole mediocre system...) What the heck would I have to pay for
a commercial typesetting system with the capabilities of (La)TeX? More than a
month's rent, I bet...
[gets down off soapbox, goes to bed]
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