On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:32:55 -0800, Jim Hurley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now all I need to do is find out was a socket is. I know it must have
something to do with light bulbs.
Searched the dictionary for "socket" and came up with the single
"Using URLs, uploading, and downloading", 18 pages (copied to Word)
which don't appear to contain the word "socket."
Is there a secret RR society which is privy to this sort of thing?
Can I join? Sock it to me.
I can't answer the question but I would very much like to be around
when it is answered. When I was younger (**much** younger), I used to
kind of absorb technical stuff without consciously learning about it,
but nowadays stuff suddenly comes up and bites me in the rear and I
wonder where it came from: for me, XML is like that, and so is most
Internet stuff. Sockets, do we need them and is the term just a token
or does it carry some metaphorical meaning? And that great forest of
non-mnemonic clusters of letters like say DHCP - just look at the
Network Control Panel on a Mac or PC and despair... I've tried to
read my way into the subject, but it hasn't helped me much. For
example, I noticed the following in the RR documentation for
'OpenSockets':
For technical information about the numbers used to designate
standard ports, see the list of port numbers at <http://
www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers>, in particular the section
titled "Well Known Port Numbers".
Following that link led to something surreal as far as I could see:
what are all those individuals doing in there? And who or what is
IANA? OK, I know I'm out of my depth.
Let's hope Andre can help us (on sockets, not the other stuff).
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France
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