On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:09:45 +0200, Manuel Otto wrote: Some time ago, I was confused with which was a host, a host name, a domain, or a domain name. I thought I understoud after some reading that in 007.localhost.com 007 is the host, localhost.com the domain, and 007.localhost.com the domain name (the confusion began when installing Slackware first time, and I configered network

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:57:48 -0800, floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote: Manuel Otto <not-for-mail@adress.is.invalid> wrote: On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:53:25 -0800, floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote: "The search list is normally determined from the local domain name; by default, it contains only the local domain name". I thought 'search' in resolv.conf, was an option

Manuel Otto <not-for-mail@adress.is.invalid> wrote: A P4 CPU is not as efficient per clockcycle as a PIII. As a rule of thumb you can say that a 1 GHz PIII is about as fast as a 1.5 GHz P4. Amazing! I always thought, or understoud, that for the same number of MHz's, a newer version of a CPU would be more effecient, not less? As you say, this is usually true because of new instructions

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:54:10 GMT, Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@brownbear.com.au> wrote: Manuel Otto wrote: On 6 Sep 2007 18:15:40 GMT, et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote: Manuel Otto (not-for-mail@adress.is.invalid) writes: On 4 Sep 2007 20:55:26 GMT, et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote: Jim Diamond (Jim.Diamond@nospam.AcadiaU.ca

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:26:03 -0300, Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond@spamville.AcadiaU.ca> wrote: On 2007-09-06, Manuel Otto <not-for-mail@adress.is.invalid> wrote: On 6 Sep 2007 17:57:03 GMT, et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote: I was trying to explain something that didn't really seem clear to me before I started deliberately playing with lilo a few months ago.