begin: Ajay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> hey guys,
hey ajay!
> I just found this program, and I'm one step closer from having 0 web
> dependance. (Some simple tasks, to me, the web is too cumbersome for. Once
> I can figure out how to do a whois lookup of an IP, I'll be set. ;)
% whois -h arin.net 216.115.108.245
GeoCities (NETBLK-NETBLK-GEO-1)
3420 Central Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051
US
Netname: NETBLK-GEO-1
Netblock: 216.115.96.0 - 216.115.111.255
Maintainer: GCIT
Coordinator:
GeoCities (AD256-ORG-ARIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(408) 530-5062
Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
NS1.YAHOO.COM 204.71.200.33
NS5.DCX.YAHOO.COM 216.32.74.10
(snip)
> 'apt-get install dict' in Debian, I don't have a URL for it otherwise, other
> than something I noticed in the doc dir: ftp.dict.org/pub/dict
>
> This is a client program, it connects to a dictd, a dictionary server (!!)
> that's running either locally or on the internet somewhere, and gives you
> the results from several different sources. (Depending on what the server
> is configured to return.)
>
> Here's an example of someone running a dictd they've made available..
>
> http://www.kanga.nu/dict/?query_term=screed&database=*&strategy=exact
>
> (he's from svlug, which reminds me, I completely forgot about the mtg
> (again) d'oh!)
it was a really good talk. i was really impressed with what borland was
pushing, although i would prolly wait until the C++ version comes out.
we had a huge meeting -- 60 people or so? there were a couple of people who
weren't there that i would've thought would be interested in the topic,
and a couple of people who showed up that i was pleasantly surprised to see.
> dictionary.com was 'ok' while I used it, but no more for me. (Well.. maybe I
> could use it thesaurus feature, but I've only used it once or twice in my
> life.. and I guess that would be thesaurus.com or something. ;)
heh. yeah, i agree. but it's not THAT painful in lynx.
here's (imho) the most useful feature of dict. i keep forgetting whether
there are 1 or 2 "r"'s and "s"'s in the word embarrass:
% dict embarass
No definitions found for "embarass", perhaps you mean:
web1913: Embarrass
wn: embarrass
gazetteer: Embarrass
of course, you have to be in the right ballpark:
% dict embaras
No definitions found for "embaras"
pete
ps- mark, i didn't want to post a 1-liner, but your post on the calendar
conversion and cal was really cool!
