Well, when I was first introduced to Linux (over the net, ie: someone mentioned the name in text form), I assumed it was pronounced lie-nix as in you-nix but with lie instead of you.
I then heard other people (in real life) pronounce it lin-ix (lin as in linen, ix as in icks, so linicks). I then found the sound ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/ english.au, which is the man himself pronouncing the name for the operating system he made. He says it Lee-nix (or thats how I hear it).
Anyway, I now call it lin-x, because I believe its the "correct" way...and plus, it rhymes with cynics.
Thats because they have numerous servers. Used to be like 16 Pentium Pro's (over a year ago). Not sure what it is now. Cdrom.com have just the 1 dishing out over a terabyte a day.
Anyone actually know what MS use (hardware/OS) for microsoft.com?
The brand new slackware website is now up, I think perhaps David Cantrell and company were just playing with everyones heads.
Also, there now _ARE_ ISO images available for slackware, they are on ftp.cdrom.com in the 'iso' subdirectory of slackware-current (which might soon be changed to slackware-7.0 I suppose...). One is for install, one is the source and zipslack. Due to popular demand no doubt.
Living here in Whakatane, our options are few. We can get dialup for decent prices ($35-$40/month), but anything else, forget about it. It would rule to be in the Auckland/Wellington CBD.
I looked into getting Frame Relay with telecom recently (what is their pet name for it...Jetstream or something?), anyway, for 48-128 (CIR-PIR) and 3 GB/month, it was in excess of $900. (Excluding setup fees, etc).
Its actually quite interesting, the only reason we even looked at it is because of the 4 cent a minute charge on business calls. That really does add up when your using it 11 hours a day, 5-6 days a week (over $500 a month added to the telephone bill).
Anyway, we are sticking to dial-up for now, perhaps Frame Relay prices will go down when ADSL gets here (or is that JetStream...ugh). That should be around 2005 if we're lucky;)
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Well, when I was first introduced to Linux (over the net, ie: someone mentioned the name in text form), I assumed it was pronounced lie-nix as in you-nix but with lie instead of you.
/ english.au, which is the man himself pronouncing the name for the operating system he made. He says it Lee-nix (or thats how I hear it).
I then heard other people (in real life) pronounce it lin-ix (lin as in linen, ix as in icks, so linicks). I then found the sound ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds
Anyway, I now call it lin-x, because I believe its the "correct" way...and plus, it rhymes with cynics.
Thats because they have numerous servers. Used to be like 16 Pentium Pro's (over a year ago). Not sure what it is now. Cdrom.com have just the 1 dishing out over a terabyte a day.
Anyone actually know what MS use (hardware/OS) for microsoft.com?
The brand new slackware website is now up, I think perhaps David Cantrell and company were just playing with everyones heads.
Also, there now _ARE_ ISO images available for slackware, they are on ftp.cdrom.com in the 'iso' subdirectory of slackware-current (which might soon be changed to slackware-7.0 I suppose...). One is for install, one is the source and zipslack. Due to popular demand no doubt.
Living here in Whakatane, our options are few. We can get dialup for decent prices ($35-$40/month), but anything else, forget about it. It would rule to be in the Auckland/Wellington CBD.
;)
I looked into getting Frame Relay with telecom recently (what is their pet name for it...Jetstream or something?), anyway, for 48-128 (CIR-PIR) and 3 GB/month, it was in excess of $900. (Excluding setup fees, etc).
Its actually quite interesting, the only reason we even looked at it is because of the 4 cent a minute charge on business calls. That really does add up when your using it 11 hours a day, 5-6 days a week (over $500 a month added to the telephone bill).
Anyway, we are sticking to dial-up for now, perhaps Frame Relay prices will go down when ADSL gets here (or is that JetStream...ugh). That should be around 2005 if we're lucky